Tenderfoot Rank Requirements
10b. Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement 10a after practicing for 30 days.
Second Class Rank Requirements
1a.
Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
1b.
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.*
2.
Discuss the principles of Leave No Trace.
3a.
Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
3b.
On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched. Explain what factors you should consider when choosing a patrol site and where to pitch a tent.
3c.
Demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
3d.
Use the tools listed in requirement 3c to prepare tinder, kindling,and fuel for a cooking fire.
3e.
Explain when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire. At an approved outdoor location and at an approved time, and using the tinder, kindling, and fuel wood from requirement 3d, demonstrate how to build a fire; light the fire, unless prohibited by local fire restrictions. After allowing the flames to burn safely for at least two minutes, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site.
3f.
Explain when it is appropriate to use a lightweight stove or propane stove. Set up a lightweight stove or propane stove; light the stove, unless prohibited by local fire restrictions. Describe the safety procedures for using these types of stoves.
3g.
On one campout, plan and cook one hot breakfast or lunch, selecting foods from the MyPlate food guide or the current USDA nutrition model. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
4.
Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity. Explain to your leader what respect is due the flag of the United States.
5.
Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour) service project.
6.
Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
7a.
Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and ingested poisoning.
7b.
Prepare a personal first-aid kit to take with you on a hike.
7c.
Demonstrate first aid for the following:
8a.
Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
8b.
Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place.
8c.
Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and 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.
9a.
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, and explain the dangers of substance addictions.
9b.
Explain the three R's of personal safety and protection.
10.
Earn an amount of money agreed upon by you and your parent, then save at least 50 percent of that money.
11.
Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.
12.
Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
13.
Complete your board of review.
First Class Rank Requirements
1.
Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.
2.
Using a map and compass, complete an orienteering course that covers 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 10 separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight. Demonstrate the principles of Leave No Trace on these outings.
4a.
Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner, and that requires cooking at least two of the meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the MyPlate food guide or the current USDA nutrition model and meets nutritional needs.
4b.
Using the menu planned 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 follow 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 patrol's cook. Supervise 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 discuss 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. citizen.
6.
Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community.
7a.
Discuss when you should and should not use lashings. Then demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together.
7b.
Use lashing 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
8d.
Tell the five most common signals 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.
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.
Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts, or an inactive Boy Scout, about your troop's activities. Invite him to a troop outing, activity, service project, or meeting. Tell him how to join, or encourage the inactive Boy Scout to become active.
11.
Describe the three things you should avoid doing related to use of the Internet. Describe a cyberbully and how you should respond to one.
12.
Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. Discuss four specific examples (different from those used for Tenderfoot requirement 13 and Second Class requirement 11) of how you have lived the points of the Scout Law in your daily life.
13.
Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
14.
Complete your board of review.