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Dehydrating your Food: Commercial dehydrated meals require only water and money, but with knowledge and practice you can pre-prepare your own dehydrated meals and enjoy food that is pre-cooked to your taste, seasoning, and satisfaction. It's fun, it's easy, and it's satisfying. | See "Menu Planning for All Occasions" |
Den & Pack Meeting Resource Guide | Links to National Website: |
Den Chiefs & Denners - Den Chiefs and Denners - who are these helpers? How do I use them in my den? What Training do these helpers need? How can they help make the den more successful? These questions and more can be solved in this seminar. | 2010 PowerPoint presentation |
Den Chief Training - This course offers a full day of training for Den Chiefs. The Den Chiefs will take the on-line BSA training, plus three University of Scouting courses. | 2019
Power Point Presentation
2013 Power Point Presentations: |
District Committee Training | Syllabus |
Do It Yourself Backpacking Gear: This course will focus on "Do It Yourself (DIY)" gear for backpacking. Learn how to make your own stoves and stuff sacks, and even more complex items like tents, sleeping bags, and backpacks. Techniques and materials will be discussed, and time will also be allotted for brainstorming new projects. Attendees are encouraged to bring in their own DIY backpacking gear to share with the class. | 2009 PowerPoint
presentation
- Repair & Maintenance 2009 PowerPoint presentation - Making Gear 2008 University of Scouting PowerPoint Presentation |
Dutch Oven Cooking - Practical hands -on experience in preparing and cooking a variety of Dutch oven meals, desserts, and other fun foods. | Dutch Oven
Cookbook - PDF Dutch Oven Recipes - PDF International Dutch Oven Society (web link) |
Duty to God | See "Bringing Duty to God to Your Unit" |
Eagle Leadership Service Projects | See "Life-to-Eagle and Eagle Leadership Service Projects" |
E.D.G.E. | See "Beginning EDGE" |
Effective Unit Communications | See "Get the Word Out!" |
Effective PowerPoint Presentations - Learn the ins and outs of PowerPoint. How to create an effective and entertaining presentation, and keys to presenting. |
PowerPoint Presentation
BSA National Branded PowerPoint Templates: To use, open template from CDROM and save to your computer in PowerPoint.
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Electronics in the Outdoors - More and more often we find electronic devices accompanying us on the trail. How do you keep them safe, dry, and fed? When are they useful, what are their limits? | 2020 PowerPoint
presentation
Introduction
to Electrical Principles - PDF Excerpt from 1911 BSA Handbook on
Wireless Telegraphy - PDF Link to American Radio Relay
League - web page for Scouts |
Emergency Action Plans For Cub Scout Packs - Has your Pack ever had to deal with a lost child or a medical emergency? What if high winds or an electrical storm turned an activity into an exercise in emergency preparedness? Receive practical tips about human responses to emergencies, the mechanism of survival, and how you can prepare for the unexpected. | 2018 Emergency
Action Plans presentation (Lynn Green) - PDF 2018 Emergency Action Plans handout (Lynn Green) - PDF 2013 Emergency
Action Plans for Packs Handout (Ed Plesnar) - PDF |
Engineering Projects Can Add Interest To Your Troop Meetings - Engineering is the creative use of technology to solve problems. Learn how to have fun while solving problems and building things and learning. Keep your Scouts interested and challenged with a bagful of odds & ends! | 2019 PowerPoint
Presentation
Write-ups of Engineering Projects to use for your troop, mostly in Word format so you can customize them to fit your requirements and resources: Structural Projects:
Floating Projects:
Dynamic Projects:
Thought Projects:
Scout Science Games - from the UK Scout Association - MSW Underwater Exploration program from NOAA
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Exciting Webelos
Program - This course is
especially recommended for bear den leaders preparing to become Webelos
den leaders. We will show you how to make your Webelos Den successful. (Note: The new Cub program effective June 1, 2015, obsoletes material on the old advancement program. Therefore, material on Activity Badges is now obsolete and has been removed - for more information, see "The New Cub Scout Advancement Program") |
Exciting Webelos Program: 2009 PowerPoint Presentation (Lisa Vroman) 2008 PowerPoint Presentation (Greg Shepard / Diane Hamlin) Webelos Den Meeting Program - PDF Webelos Planning Guide - PDF Webelos Den Leader skit - Bandana - PDF |
Fire Building: Learn hands-on creative and primitive ways to build and start fires without matches. The techniques include (but are not restricted to) as flint and steel, fero rods, and fire by friction. Feel free to bring your favorite tools and tinder bundles to demonstrate and experiment with! | Fire Triangle Sheet - PDF |
First Aid for Cub Scouts: All levels of Scouting have a first aid component. Learn the basics of first aid and how to teach them to Cubs - Tigers through Webelos - so that they are prepared to help and to advance. Build a base for the future. | Internet Links:
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First Class Scout Emphasis - Getting a new Scout to First Class should be the primary emphasis of his initial Scouting Experience, but how do we do this in a way that makes achieving requirements fun and which keeps the trail to First Class from seeming like so much homework? | 2012 PowerPoint
Presentation
New Scout Patrol poster - PDF See Scouts BSA Resources page for complete advancement requirements |
Fishing / Fish & Wildlife Management Merit Badges | See Go Fishing |
Flag Etiquette - The proper display of our National Flag alone or with other flags is an important subject and one that is tied directly to Scout Advancement. Come and learn how to display and treat our Flag with respect and how to properly honor the standards of other countries and organizations. | Flag Etiquette - PDF Flag Glossary - PDF Displaying the Flag - PDF |
Fundraising | See "Make your unit financially healthy" |
Games | See: |
Genealogy/Oral History -Learn how to record your geneology with an oral history. Many hands-on opportunities. | Power
Point Presentation (2008)
"Memories Matter" brochure - Front
Back - PDF Research Log - PDF Cemetery Records form -
PDF |
Get the word out! We've got the best game in town, but nobody knows about it. How can your unit get the word out to the community about what you've been doing and how much fun your Cubs/Scouts/Venturers are having? How can you attract new members to your unit by effective publicity? Does your unit have a website or Facebook page, and if not, why not? What local media is available, and how do you use it? All these things, and more, will be covered! | 2010 "Effective Communications" PowerPoint
presentation (Rascha Scheel) 2010 "Websites & Newsletters" PowerPoint presentation (handouts in PDF) (Jim Graney) 2005 "Websites & Newsletters" PowerPoint presentation (Jery Stedinger) 2004 "Websites & Newsletters" PowerPoint presentation (Mike Brown) 2004 "Beyond Newsletters" PowerPoint Presentation (Jery Stedinger) Handout from March 2010 Taughannock Roundtable - PDF Tips on Newsletters and Websites Designing Websites for Accessibility BSA Guidelines for Websites
- PDF "Web Site Freshness: The Fine Art of Keeping It Current" from Microsoft Sample Website: Troop Website (Troop 80, Cortland) Sample Newsletters: "Web Pages That Suck" - Vincent Flanders' website where you can learn good website design from looking at bad website design (link) Power Point Presentation on Unit Communications (2008)
Ideas to Promote Scouting -
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Get your Scouts wet!: Learn about Safe Swim Defense/Safety Afloat and how to teach and supervise the BSA Requirements for Webelos Aquatics, as well as 1st and 2nd Class Scouts. These certifications are required to take your Pack, Troop or Crew swimming or boating | 2016 PowerPoint
Program handout - PDF National page on Aquatic Safety US Scouts Service Project page on Safety |
Getting Started in the Outdoors The biggest hurdle to outdoor enjoyment can be the "unknown". We know how to make ourselves comfortable when we are at home, but a campsite in the wilderness or even a site in a campground is a big unknown. Meet it face-on with experienced outdoor "users" who will guide you as they use this course to demonstrate how everyday comfort in the outdoors is an attainable goal. Instructor: Ed Plesnar | 2024 Presentation - PDF |
Giving & Receiving Feedback - Giving feedback is one the most effective tools for reinforcing the behavior you want, and changing the behavior you don't. Come learn a four step method that will help you with your Scouts, your family, and your work. | 2010 PowerPoint
Presentation 2009 PowerPoint Presentation |
Go Fishing - Kids love to fish! Learn how to take your Scouts fishing as part of the troop program and maybe pick up a pointer for yourself. | 2023
Fishing Merit Badge PPSX presentation - PDF
version
2022 Fish and Wildlife Management Merit Badge Presentation - PDF Course Outline - PDF Handouts - PDF |
Goal Setting and Time Management: Youth today are pulled in many different directions. Between School, Sports, Social, and Scouts there are competing voices and offerings. This course offers concrete and helpful techniques for setting priorities and managing time. It includes suggestions for predicting time wasters, modeling priority assignments, and the importance of using a planning tool. Youth and Adults who want to more effectively manage their time inside and outside of scouting will find these materials valuable and Life Scouts advancing to Eagle will find this material both relevant and helpful. |
Goal
Setting and Time Management - Power Point Presentation |
Got games? - Every unit can use some teambuilding ideas! Ice-breakers, gathering activities, games… This course will present different ways of building and encouraging your unit's youth leadership. | 2019 Teambuilding
while on the Trail handout - PDF
Team Building Games (all PDF) UK Scout Association on Team Building PDF |
Gourmet Cookouts - Encourage your Scouts to try a more elaborate outdoor cooking experience. | Gourmet Cookouts
- PDF Gourmet Cookout Recipes - PDF Patrol Menu Planning Worksheet - PDF Cooking
on Embers |
GPS and Geocaching - We'll learn about the basics of GPS and then how to use your GPS to join in the fun worldwide Geocaching game as you locate hidden cache sites and log your successes. | Geocaching to Promote Scouting - PDF |
GPS to UTM to Map - Learn how to move from "I'm somewhere around there" to "This is where I am" by adding the Universal Traverse Mercator Grid to your arsenal of tricks. | Course
handout - PDF
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Practical Guide to GPS-UTM - Internet Link |
Growing your Pack - proven strategies for success - Successful Packs make recruiting Cub Scouts a year-round process. Learn how to recruit all year long and to make most out of your recruiting events. | 2019 Power
Point Presentaiton - ppsx 2017 Power Point Presentation - ppt 2015 PowerPoint presentation - pps Pack 107 Parent Information
Sheet (PDF) |
Group Dynamics for Outdoor Leadership - Effective outdoor leaders understand the dynamic phases of the people they are leading. In this session, you’ll be introduced to the “Forming, Storming, Norming, Performing and Transforming” group dynamics model and will discuss how leaders should respond to each phase in an outdoor or patrol setting. The concepts covered in this session will be geared towards older scouts with leadership experience and adult leaders. | PowerPoint Presentation |
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