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1st Class Requirements-

1. Demonstrate how to find directions during day and at night without using a compass.

2. Using a compass, complete an orienteering course of at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items.(tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)

3. Since joining, have participated in ten seperate troop activities, (other than meetings) three of which must be camping overnight.

4a. Help plan a parol menu for one campout-including one breakfast, lunch, and dinner- that requires cooking. Tell how the menue includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional needs.

4b. Using the menue plan in requirement 4a, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.

4c. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.

4d. Explain the procedures to folow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish.

4e. On one campout, serve as your patrols cook. Surpervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement 4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.

5. Visit and dicuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your Constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. Citzen.

6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.

7a. Discuss when your should and should not use lashings.

7b. Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear and diagonal lashing by joining two or more poles or staves together.

7c. Use lashings to make a useful camp gadget.

8a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.

8b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.

8c. Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person; from a smoke-filled room. and a person with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards.

8d. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

9a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.

9b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.*

9c. Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water wearing clothes (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt and long-sleeved shirt), Remove shoes and socks, inflate the shirt and show that you can float using the shirt for support. Remove and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the inflated pants for support, thenshow how to reinflate the pants while using them for support.

9d. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and as rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water).

10. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout law in your everyday life.

11. Participate in a scoutmaster conference.

12. Complete your board of review.