First Class Rank

This Workbook can help you organize your thoughts as you read your Boy Scout Handbook. You still must satisfy your Scoutmaster that you can demonstrate each skill and have learned the information. No one can add or subtract from the Boy Scout Requirements #33216. Merit Badge Workbooks and much more are below: Online Resources.

Send comments to: craig@craiglincoln.com. Requirements revised: 1/1/2008, Workbook updated: March 2009.

Scout’s Name: ___________________________________________ Troop: ___________________________

1. Demonstrate how to find directions during the day __________________________________________________________

__ and at night without using a compass. __________________________________________________________________

2. 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.). _________________________________________________________

3. Since joining, have participated in 10 separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight. ___________________________________________________________________

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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. *********Use the Link for 1st Class Menu Planning to earn proper credit

	Bread/Grain	Main Course	Dairy	Fruit	Drink	Dessert
BREAKFAST
	Soup/Salad	Main Course	Vegetable	Fruit	Drink	Dessert
LUNCH
	Soup/Salad	Main Course	Vegetable	Vegetable	Drink	Dessert
DINNER

Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs. _____________________________

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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, __________________________________________________________________________________

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__ utensils, _________________________________________________________________________________________

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__ and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals. _______________________________________________

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4d. Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. ___________________________________________________________________________

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__ Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish. _________________________

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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 ____________________________________________________________________________

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__ and obligations as a U.S. citizen. ______________________________________________________________________

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6. Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community.

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7a. Discuss when you should ___________________________________________________________________________

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__ and should not use lashings. _________________________________________________________________________

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7b. 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. _________________________________________

7c. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget. ______________________________________________________________

8a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used. ___________________________________

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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 from a smoke-filled room _____________________

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__ With a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards______________________________________________________________

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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. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. _____________________

11. 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. __________

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12. Describe the three things you should avoid doing related to use of the Internet.

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__ Describe a cyberbully ______________________________________________________________________________

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__ and how you should respond to one. __________________________________________________________________

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13. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. ________________________________________________________________

14. Complete your board of review. _______________________________________________________________________

Alternate requirements for the First Class rank are available for Scouts with physical or mental disabilities - click here to learn more.

The requirements for Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class ranks may be worked on simultaneously; however, these ranks must be earned in sequence.

Online Resources (Use any Internet resource with caution and only with your parent’s or guardian’s permission.)

10: What does Scout Spirit really mean? (It's not what you do in your troop!)
12: Scoutmaster Conference - Explains that you don't "pass" a Scoutmaster Conference and how to appeal.
13: Board of Review - What do they ask? How long can it be? Is the uniform really required? How do you appeal?