First Class Rank. Workbook. Scout s Name:

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1 Workbook This Workbook an help you organize your thoughts as you prepare to meet with your Sout Leader. You still must satisfy your Sout Leader that you an demonstrate eah skill and have learned the information. You should use the work spae provided for eah requirement to keep trak of whih requirements have been ompleted, and to make notes for disussing the item with your leader, not for providing full and omplete answers. If a requirement says that you must take an ation using words suh as "disuss", "show", "tell", "explain", "demonstrate", "identify", et, that is what you must do. Sout Leaders may not require the use of this or any similar workbooks. No one may add or subtrat from the offiial requirements found in Souts BSA Requirements (Pub ). The requirements were last revised in 2019 This workbook was updated in Marh Sout s Name: Unit: Please submit errors, omissions, omments or suggestions about this workbook to: Workbooks@USSouts.Org Comments or suggestions for hanges to the requirements for the rank should be sent to: Advanement.Team@Souting.Org CAMPING and OUTDOOR ETHICS 1. a. Sine joining Souts BSA, partiipate in 10 separate troop/patrol ativities, at least six of whih must be held outdoors. Of the outdoor ativities, at least three must inlude overnight amping. These ativities do not inlude troop or patrol meetings. On ampouts, spend the night in a tent that you pith or other struture that you help eret, suh as a leanto, snow ave, or tepee. Dates Ativity Outdoors? Overnight Tent/struture Camping? ereted? Workbook Copyright U.S. Souting Servie Projet, In. - All Rights Reserved Requirements Copyright, Boy Souts of Ameria (Used with permission.) This workbook may be reprodued and used loally by Souts and Souters for purposes onsistent with the programs of the Boy Souts of Ameria (BSA), the World Organization of the Sout Movement (WOSM) or other Souting and Guiding Organizations. However it may NOT be used or reprodued for eletroni redistribution or for ommerial or other non-souting purposes without the express permission of the U. S. Souting Servie Projet, In. (USSSP).

2 Sout's Name: b. Explain eah of the priniples of Tread Lightly! and tell how you pratied them on a ampout or outing. This outing must be different from the ones used for Tenderfoot requirement 1 and Seond Class requirement 1b Date: T Ativity: R E A D COOKING 2. a. Help plan a menu for one of the above ampouts that inludes at least one breakfast, one lunh, and one dinner, and that requires ooking at least two of the meals. Breakfast Bread/Grain Main Course Dairy Fruit Drink Dessert Lunh Soup/Salad Main Course Vegetable Fruit Drink Dessert Workbook Page 2 of 12

3 Dinner Sout's Name: Soup/Salad Main Course Vegetable Vegetable Drink Dessert Tell how the menu inludes the foods from MyPlate or the urrent USDA nutritional model and how it meets nutritional needs for the planned ativity or ampout. b. Using the menu planned in First Class requirement 2a, make a list showing a budget and the food amounts needed to feed three or more youth. Seure the ingredients. Food Amount Cost Food Amount Cost. Show whih pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to ook and serve these meals. d. Demonstrate the proedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy produts, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food produts. Show how to properly dispose of amp garbage, ans, plasti ontainers, and other rubbish. e. On one ampout, serve as ook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a ooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunh, and dinner planned in First Class requirement 2a. Supervise the leanup. Workbook Page 3 of 12

4 TOOLS 3. a. Disuss when you should and should not use lashings. Sout's Name: b. Demonstrate tying the timber hith and love hith. Timber Hith Clove hith. Demonstrate tying the square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together. Square lashing Shear lashing Diagonal lashing d. Use lashings to make a useful amp gadget or struture. NAVIGATION 4. a. Using a map and ompass, omplete an orienteering ourse that overs at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, anyon, dith, et.) b. Demonstrate how to use a handheld GPS unit, GPS app on a smartphone, or other eletroni navigation system. Use GPS to find your urrent loation, a destination of your hoie, and the route you will take to get there. Follow that route to arrive at your destination. NATURE 5. a. Identify or show evidene of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your loal area or ampsite loation. You may show evidene by identifying fallen leaves or fallen fruit that you find in the field, or as part of a olletion you have made, or by photographs you have taken Plant b. Identify two ways to obtain a weather foreast for an upoming ativity Evidene Workbook Page 4 of 12

5 Explain why weather foreasts are important when planning for an event. Sout's Name:. Desribe at least three natural indiators of impending hazardous weather, the potential dangerous events that might result from suh weather onditions, and the appropriate ations to take. 1. Indiator Potential event Ation to take d. Desribe extreme weather onditions you might enounter in the outdoors in your loal geographi area. Disuss how you would determine ahead of time the potential risk of these types of weather dangers, alternative planning onsiderations to avoid suh risks, and how you would prepare for and respond to those weather onditions. Workbook Page 5 of 12

6 AQUATICS 6. a. Suessfully omplete the BSA swimmer test. 4 & 5 b. Tell what preautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat. Sout's Name:. Identify the basi parts of a anoe, kayak, or other boat. Identify the parts of a paddle or an oar. d. Desribe proper body positioning in a waterraft, depending on the type and size of the vessel. Explain the importane of proper body position in the boat. e. With a helper and a pratie vitim, show a line resue both as tender and as resuer. (The pratie vitim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.) 5 FIRST AID AND EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 7. a. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the ollarbone. Sprained ankle Injuries on the head Injuries on the upper arm Injuries on the ollarbone b. By yourself and with a partner, show how to: Transport a person from a smoke-filled room. Transport for at least 25 yards a person with a sprained ankle. Tell the five most ommon signals of a heart attak Workbook Page 6 of 12

7 Explain the steps (proedures) in ardiopulmonary resusitation (CPR). Sout's Name: d. Tell what utility servies exist in your home or meeting plae. Desribe potential hazards assoiated with these utilities and tell how to respond in emergeny situations. Utility Hazards How to respond e. Develop an emergeny ation plan for your home that inludes what to do in ase of fire, storm, power outage, and water outage. f. Explain how to obtain potable water in an emergeny. Workbook Page 7 of 12

8 FITNESS Sout's Name: 8. a. After ompleting Seond Class requirement 7a, be physially ative at least 30 minutes eah day for five days a week for four weeks. Keep trak of your ativities. (You an log your ativities using the form at the end of this workbook) b. Share your hallenges and suesses in ompleting First Class requirement 8a. Set a goal for ontinuing to inlude physial ativity as part of your daily life. CITIZENSHIP 9. a. Visit and disuss with a seleted individual approved by your leader (for example, an eleted offiial, judge, attorney, ivil servant, prinipal, or teaher) the onstitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. itizen. Person Visited: Position Held b. Investigate an environmental issue affeting your ommunity. Issue: Share what you learned about that issue with your patrol or troop. Workbook Page 8 of 12

9 Sout's Name: Tell what, if anything, ould be done by you or your ommunity to address the onern.. On a Souting or family outing, take note of the trash and garbage you produe. Before your next similar outing, deide how you an redue, reyle, or repurpose what you take on that outing, and then put those plans into ation. Compare your results. d. Partiipate in three hours of servie through one or more servie projets approved by your Soutmaster. The projet(s) must not be the same servie projet(s) used for Tenderfoot requirement 7b and Seond Class requirement 8e. Date Start Time End Time Duration Projet Workbook Page 9 of 12

10 Explain how your servie to others relates to the Sout Law. Sout's Name: LEADERSHIP 10. a. Tell someone who is eligible to join Souts BSA, or an inative Sout, about your Souting ativities. Invite this person to an outing, ativity, servie projet, or meeting. Provide information on how to join, or enourage the inative Sout to beome ative. Share your efforts with your Soutmaster or other adult leader. Who did you speak with? What did you tell him? What was the result? SCOUT SPIRIT 11. a. Demonstrate Sout spirit by living the Sout Oath and Sout Law. Tell how you have done your duty to God and how you have lived four different points of the Sout Law (different from those points used for previous ranks) in your everyday life. Points of the Sout Law used for Tenderfoot requirement 9 and Seond Class requirement Point of the Sout Law 2. Workbook Page 10 of 12

11 Sout's Name: Duty to God 12. a. While working toward the First Class rank, and after ompleting Seond Class requirement 11, partiipate in a Soutmaster onferene. Date of Soutmaster Conferene: 13. a. Suessfully omplete your board of review for the First Class rank. NOTES: The requirements for Sout, Tenderfoot, Seond Class, and First Class ranks may be worked on simultaneously; however, these ranks must be earned in sequene. Alternative requirements for the First Class rank are available for Souts with physial or mental disabilities if they meet the riteria listed in the Souts BSA Requirements book. 4 See the Swimming merit badge requirements for details about the BSA swimmer test. 5 Under ertain exeptional onditions, where the limate keeps the outdoor water temperature below safe levels the yearround, or where there are no suitably safe and aessible plaes (outdoors or indoors) within a reasonable traveling distane to swim at any time during the year, the ounil Sout exeutive and advanement ommittee may, on an individual Sout basis, authorize an alternative requirement for requirements 6a and 6e. The loal ounil may establish appropriate proedures for submitting and proessing these types of requests. All the other requirements, none of whih neessitate entry in the water or entry in a waterraft on the water, must be ompleted as written. When working on the Sout, Tenderfoot, Seond Class, or First Class ranks, Souts and Souters should be aware of some vital information in the urrent edition of the Guide to Advanement (BSA publiation 33088). Important exerpts from that publiation an be downloaded from You an download a omplete opy of the Guide to Advanement.from Workbook Page 11 of 12

12 Sout's Name: Week 1 Date Ativity & Notes Start Time End Time Duration Week 2 Date Ativity & Notes Start Time End Time Duration Week 3 Date Ativity & Notes Start Time End Time Duration Week 4 Date Ativity & Notes Start Time End Time Duration Workbook Page 12 of 12