Requirements for Tenderfoot through 1st class

These are the requirements which you will need to complete for Tenderfoot through first class on your way to eagle. Use the back button on your browser to return to the main page. If you want to go on to the next set of requirements, then go here.

Tenderfoot requirements

• Present yourself to a leader properly dressed before a campout. Show the camping gear that you will use and how to propperly pack and carry it.
• Spend at least one night on a patrol campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped to pitch.
• On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each member to share in meal preperation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.
• Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
• Demonstrate that you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and a taut-line hitch.
• Explain the rules of safe hiking both on the highway and cross country, during the day and at night. Explain what to do if you are lost.
• Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.
• Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the scout oath, law, motto, and slogan.
• Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe the patrol flag.
• Explain why we use the buddy system in scouting.
• Record your best in push-ups, pull-ups, sit-ups, standing long jump, and the quarter mile run.
• Show improvement in these activities in thirty days.
• Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
• Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
• Show first aid for the following: Simple cuts and scratches, blisters on the hand and foot, minor burns or scalds (first degree), bites or stings from insects or ticks, poisonous snakebite, nosebleed, and frostbite/sunburn.
• Participate in a scoutmaster conference.
• Complete your board of review.

Second class requirements

• Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
• Using a compass and map together, take a five-mile hike (or ten miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or gaurdian.
• Since joining participate in five seperate troop/patrol meetings, two of which include camping overnight.
• On one of the campouts mentioned above, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent you have pitched.
• On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
• Using the tools mentioned above, prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
• Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a light weight stove. Discuss the saftey procedures for using both.
• Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.
• On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the four basic food groups. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you need.
• 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 animalsfound in your community.
• Show what to do for
• Prepare a personal first-aid kit to take with you on a hike.
• Demonstrate first-aid for the following: Object in the eye, bite of a suspected rabid animal, puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook, serious burns (second degree), heat exhaustion, shock, and heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation.
• Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
• Demonstrate your ability to jump feet first 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.
• Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm and 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 method is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.
• Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family.
• 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 requirements

• Demonstrate how to find direction during the day and night without 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.
• Since joining participate in ten seperate troop/patrol activities, three of which include staying overnight.
• Help plan a patrol menu for one campout-including one breakfast, lunch, and dinner that requires cooking. Tell how the menu includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional needs.
• Using the menu planned above, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure food ingredients.
• Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be used to cook and serve these meals.
• Explain the procedures to follow in the safe storage and handling 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.
• Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader your constitutional rights and obligations.
• Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.
• Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
• Demonstrate tieng the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashing by joining two or more staves or poles together.
• Use lashings to make a useful camp gadget.
• Demonstrate tieing the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.
• Demonstrete bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
• Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person: From a smoke filled room, with a sprained ankle (for at least 25 yards).
• Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps in a cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
• Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
• Successfully complete the BSA swimmers test.
• Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water wearing clothes. 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, then show how to re-inflate the pants while using them for support.
• With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as a tender and rescuer.
• Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath and Scout Law in your everyday life.
• Participate in a scoutmaster conference.
• Complete a board of review.