Second
Class
- a. Demonstrate how a compass
works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
b. Using a compass and a map together, take a five-mile hike
(or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.*
- a. Since
joining, have participated in five seperate troop/patrol activities (other
than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
b. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and
sleep in a tent that you have pitched.
c. On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and
use of the kinfe, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
d. Use the tools listed in requirement 2c to prepare tinder,
kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
e. Discuss when it is appropriate to use cooking fire and
a light-weight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both.
f. Demonstrate how to light a fight and a lightweight stove.
g. On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot
breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the food pyramid. Explain
the importance of good nutrition. Then how to transport, store, and prepare
the foods you selected.
- Participate in a flag ceremony for your
school, religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop
activity.
- Participate in an approved (minimum of one
hour) service project.
- Identify or show evidance of at least 10
kinds of wile animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in
your community.
- a. Show
what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding,
and internal poisoning.
b. Prepare a personal first-aid kit to take with you on a
hike.
c. Demonstrate first aid for the following:
- Object in the eye
- Bite of a suspected rabid animal
- Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook
- Serious burns (second-degree)
- Heat exhaustion
- Shock
- Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation
- a. Tell
what precautions must be taken for a safe swim
b. Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into water
over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop,
turn sharper, resume swimming, and return to your starting point.
c. Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your
arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines or objects.
Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing
rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid
contact with the victim.
- Participate in a school, community, or troop
program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco and other practices
that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program
with your family.
- Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout
Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
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