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Trail To First Class


Tenderfoot

This is a work in progress page dedicated to moving new Boy Scouts along their path to become First Class Scouts. The first rank beyond a Scout, is Tenderfoot.

To earn the rank of Tenderfoot, there are several requirements a Scout must complete. In addition to a study sheet, the web can help with several visuals and identification:


Second Class

To earn the rank of Second Class, there are several requirements a Scout must complete. The web can help with several visuals and identification:

  • Compass
    1. Demonstrate how the compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
    2. Using a compass and map together, take a 5-mile hike (or ten miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.
  • Camping
    1. Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
    2. On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched.
    3. On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
    4. Use the tools listed in requirement 2c to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
    5. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both.
    6. Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.
    7. 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. Tell 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 evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
  • First Aid
    1. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and ingested poisoning.
    2. Prepare a personal first ais kit to take with you on a hike.
    3. Show first aid for the following:
      1. Object in the eye
      2. Bite of a suspected rabid animal
      3. Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook
      4. Serious burns (second-degree)
      5. Heat exaustion
      6. Shock
      7. Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventalation
  • Drug Prevention
    1. 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.
    2. Explain the three R's of personal safety and protection.
  • 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


First Class

To earn the rank of Second Class, there are several requirements a Scout must complete. The web can help with several visuals and identification:

  • Food
    1. 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 meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs.
    2. Using the menu planned in the previous requirement, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.
    3. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
    4. 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.
    5. 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 earlier. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.
  • Ropes and Knots
    1. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
    2. 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.
    3. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
  • Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.
  • Using a 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.)
  • Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
  • 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.
  • Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.
  • First Aid
    1. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.
    2. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle. and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
    4. Show ho to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person:
      1. From a smoke filled room.
      2. With a sprained ankle,for at least 25 yards.
    5. Tell the five most common signals of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in Cardiopulmanary Rescuscitation (CPR)
  • Swimming
    1. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
    2. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
    3. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.)
  • Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
  • 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.
  • Describe the three things you should avoid doing related to use of the Internet. Describe a cyberbully and how you should respond to one.
  • Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
  • Complete your Board of Review