Pedal with the Pack requirements (Wolf)

0:00 · 10 min

Gathering: pack the bag

Give the Scouts who arrive first something to do, so the meeting starts the moment they walk in.

• Spread the Cub Scout Six Essentials and four things that do not belong on a table by the door.
• The card on the table says: pick the six you would carry, and be ready to say why.
• As Scouts arrive they join in, so the ones who came early are never left sitting.

0:10 · 5 min

Opening

Flag ceremony, Scout Oath and Scout Law. The same five minutes every week, run by the Scouts.

• The denner calls the den to order and leads the flag ceremony.
• Say the Scout Oath and the Scout Law together. New Scouts read from a card and nobody makes anything of it.
• One sentence on tonight's adventure, Pedal with the Pack, and the one thing everybody will get done.

0:15 · 5 min

Talk time

Den business while everyone is still sitting down, and a look at what is coming.

• The two dates parents need: the next den meeting and the next pack event.
• Ask who already did part of Pedal with the Pack at home, and write the names down so it gets recorded.
• Take one question from the den. Answer it or say when you will.

0:20 · 12 min

Activity 1: Show how to properly wear a bicycle helmet

Close requirements 1 and 2 of Pedal with the Pack.

• Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
• Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Show how to properly wear a bicycle helmet" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
• Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
• Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.
• Then requirement 2: sit the den in a circle and take one answer each on "Decide what you should wear when riding a bike".

Requirement 1 Requirement 2

0:32 · 12 min

Activity 2: Learn about different types of bikes

Close requirements 3 and 4 of Pedal with the Pack.

• Put the answers where the den can find them: three stations, a set of cards, or a chart for "Learn about different types of bikes and when/where you might ride these different types".
• Give the den five minutes in pairs to work it out, then bring the answers together on one sheet.
• Go round the circle so every Scout says one answer out loud in their own words.
• Then requirement 4: put the den in pairs and have every Scout show you "Demonstrate you can start and stop your bicycle without help" once, in their own way.

Requirement 3 Requirement 4

0:44 · 11 min

Activity 3: Demonstrate proper hand signals

Close requirements 5 and 6 of Pedal with the Pack.

• Do it once yourself at normal speed, then once slowly while you narrate every step.
• Put the den in pairs so each Scout practices "Demonstrate proper hand signals" while their partner watches for the one thing that matters.
• Go round the circle and have every Scout show you once, in their own way.
• Mark it off as each Scout finishes rather than trying to remember at the end.
• Then requirement 6: read "With your den, pack, or family, follow the buddy system and take a bike ride" out loud, work it in pairs, and mark it off as each Scout finishes.

Requirement 5 Requirement 6

0:55 · 5 min

Closing

End on time, and make sure every Scout leaves knowing what they finished.

• Cubmaster's minute: one short thought tied to what the den just did. Sixty seconds, no lecture.
• Read back what got finished tonight, requirement by requirement, so the Scouts hear their own progress.
• Send the den off with the den yell, and catch the parents who need to hear something at pickup.