Bear Requirements
Know. Name some people in history who have shown great faith.
Discuss with an adult how faith has been important
at a particular point in his or her life.
Commit. Discuss with an adult how having faith and hope
will help you in your life, and also discuss some ways that you
can strengthen your faith.
Practice. Practice your faith as you are taught in
your home, church, synagogue, mosque, or religious fellowship.
a. Write or tell what makes America special to you.
b. With the help of your family or den leader, find out about two famous Americans.
Tell the things they did or are doing to improve our way of life.
c. Find out something about the old homes near where you live. Go and see two of them.
d. Find out where places of historical interest are located in or near your town or city.
Go and visit one of them with your family or den.
e. Choose a state; it can be your favorite one or your home state.
Name its state bird, tree, and flower. Describe its flag. Give the date it was admitted to the Union.
f. Be a member of the color guard in a flag ceremony for your den or pack.
g. Display the U.S. flag in your home or fly it on three national holidays.
h. Learn how to raise and lower a U.S. flag properly for an outdoor ceremony.
i. Participate in an outdoor flag ceremony.
j. Complete the Character Connection for Citizenship.
Know. Tell ways some people in the past have served our country.
Tell about some people who serve our country today.
(Don't forget about "ordinary" people who serve our country.)
Commit. Tell something that might happen to you and your family
if other people were not responsible citizens.
Tell one thing you will do to be a good citizen.
Practice. Tell three things you did in one week that show you are
a good citizen.
a. Tell in your own words what folklore is. List some folklore stories,
folk songs, or historical legends from your own state or part of the country.
b. Name at least five stories about American folklore.
Point out on a United States map where they happened.
c. Read two folklore stories and tell your favorite one to your den.
3. SHARING YOUR WORLD WITH WILDLIFEa. Choose a bird or animal that you like and find out how it lives.
Make a poster showing what you have learned.
b. Build or make a bird feeder or birdhouse and hang it in
a place where birds can visit safely.
c. Explain what a wildlife conservation officer does.
d. Visit one of the following:
Zoo, Nature center, Aviary, Wildlife refuge, Game preserve
e. Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years.
Tell why animals become extinct. Name one animal that is on
the endangered species list.
a. Save 5 pounds of glass or aluminum, or 1 month of daily newspapers. Turn them in at a recycling
center or use your community's recycling service.
b. Plant a tree in your yard, or on the grounds of the group that operates your Cub Scout pack,
or in a park or other public place. Be sure to get permission first.
c. Call city or county officials or your trash hauling company and find out what happens
to your trash after it is hauled away.
d. List all the ways water is used in your home. Search for dripping faucets or other ways water
might be wasted. With an adult, repair or correct those problems.
e. Discuss with an adult in your family the kinds of energy your family uses.
f. Find out more about your family's use of electricity.
g. Take part in a den or pack neighborhood clean-up project.
a. Practice one way police gather evidence: by taking fingerprints, or taking shoeprints,
or taking tire track casts.
b. Visit your local sheriff's office or police station or talk with a law enforcement officer
visiting your den or pack to discuss crime prevention.
c. Help with crime prevention for your home.
d. Be sure you know where to get help in your neighborhood.
e. Learn the phone numbers to use in an emergency and post them by each phone in your home.
f. Know what you can do to help law enforcement.
Do FOUR of the following.
a. Visit your library or newspaper office. Ask to see back issues of newspapers or an almanac.
b. Find someone who was a Cub Scout a long time ago. Talk with him about what Cub Scouting was like then.
c. Start or add to an existing den or pack scrapbook.
d. Trace your family back through your grandparents or great-grandparents; or, talk to a grandparent
about what it was like when he or she was younger.
e. Find out some history about your community.
f. Start your own history: keep a journal for 2 weeks.
g. Complete the Character Connection for Respect.
Know. As you learn about how Cub Scout-age life was like for adults you know,
does what you learn change what you think about them.
Tell how it might help you respect or value them more.
Commit. Can you think of reasons others might be disrespectful to people
or things you value? Name one new way you will show respect for a
person or thing someone else values.
Practice. List some ways you can show respect for people and events in the past.
a. With an adult, bake cookies.
b. With an adult, make snacks for the next den meeting.
c. With an adult, prepare one part of your breakfast, one part of your lunch, and one part of your supper.
d. Make a list of the "junk foods" you eat. Discuss "junk food" with a parent or teacher.
e. Make some trail food for a hike.
f. With an adult, make a dessert for your family.
g. With an adult, cook something outdoors.
3. FAMILY FUNa. Go on a day trip or evening out with members of your family.
b. Have a family fun night at home.
a. Tell what to do in case of an accident in the home. A family member needs help. Someone's clothes catch on fire.
b. Tell what to do in case of a water accident.
c. Tell what to do in case of a school bus accident.
d. Tell what to do in case of a car accident.
e. With your family, plan escape routes from your home and have a practice drill.
f. Have a health checkup by a physician (optional).
g. Complete the Character Connection for Courage.
Know. Memorize the courage steps: Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be careful.
Tell why each courage step is important. How will memorizing
the courage steps help you to be ready?
Commit. Tell why it might be difficult to follow the courage steps
in an emergency situation. Think of other times you can use the courage steps.
(Standing up to a bully is one example.)
Practice. Act out one of the requirements using these courage steps:
Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be careful.
a. Go camping with your family.
b. Go on a hike with your family.
c. Have a picnic with your family.
d. Attend an outdoor event with your family.
e. Plan your outdoor family day.
6. SAVING WELL, SPENDING WELLa. Go grocery shopping with a parent or other adult member of your family.
b. Set up a savings account.
c. Keep a record of how you spend money for 2 weeks.
d. Pretend you are shopping for a car for your family.
e. Discuss family finances with a parent or guardian.
f. Play a board game with your family that involves the use of play money.
g. With an adult, figure out how much it costs for each person in your home to eat one meal.
a. Know the rules for bike safety. If your town requires a bicycle license, be sure to get one. b. Learn to ride a bike, if you haven't by now. Show that you can follow a winding course for 60 feet doing sharp left and right turns, a U-turn, and an emergency stop. c. Keep your bike in good shape. Identify the parts of a bike that should be checked often. d. Change a tire on a bicycle. e. Protect your bike from theft. Use a bicycle lock. f. Ride a bike for 1 mile without rest. Be sure to obey all traffic rules. g. Plan and take a family bike hike. a. Set up the equipment and play any two of these outdoor games with your family or friends. b. Play two organized games with your den. c. Select a game that your den has never played. Explain the rules. a. Do physical fitness stretching exercises. b. With a friend about your size, compete in at least six different two-person contests. (Many examples in book.) c. Compete with your den or pack in the crab relay, gorilla relay, 30-yard dash, and kangaroo relay. a. With an adult in your family, choose a TV show. Watch it together. b. Play a game of charades at your den meeting or with your family at home. c. Visit a newspaper office, or a TV or radio station and talk to a news reporter. d. Use a computer to get information. Write, spell-check, and print out a report on what you learned. e. Write a letter to a company that makes something you use. Use e-mail or the U.S. Postal Service. f. Talk with a parent or other family member about how getting and giving facts fits into his or her job. a. Make a list of the things you want to do today. Check them off when you have done them. b. Write two letters to relatives or friends. c. Keep a daily record of your activities for 2 weeks. d. Write an invitation to someone. e. Write a thank-you note. f. Write a story about something you have done with your family. g. Write about the activities of your den. h. Complete the Character Connection for Honesty. Know. Tell what made it difficult to be clear and accurate as you wrote details Commit. Tell why it is important to be honest and trustworthy with yourself and Practice. While doing the requirement for this achievement, a. Know the safety rules for handling a knife. b. Show that you know how to take care of and use a pocketknife. c. Make a carving with a pocketknife. Work with your den leader or other adult when doing this. d. Earn the Whittlin' Chip card. a. Show how to use and take care of four of these tools. c. Build your own tool box. d. Use at least two tools listed in requirement (a) to fix something. a. Build a model from a kit. b. Build a display for one of your models. c. Pretend you are planning to change the furniture layout in one of the rooms in your home. d. Make a model of a mountain, a meadow, a canyon, or a river. e. Go and see a model of a shopping center or new building that is on display somewhere. f. Make a model of a rocket, boat, car, or plane. g. Complete the Character Connection for Resourcefulness. Know. Review the requirements for this achievement and list the resources Commit. After you complete the requirements for this achievement, list any changes Practice. While you complete the requirements for this achievement, a. Whip the ends of a rope. b. Tie a square knot, bowline, sheet bend, two half hitches, and slip knot. Tell how each knot is used. c. Learn how to keep a rope from tangling. d. Coil a rope. Throw it, hitting a 2-foot square marker 20 feet away. e. Learn a magic rope trick. f. Make your own rope. a. Learn the rules of and how to play three team sports. b. Learn the rules of and how to play two sports in which only one person is on each side. c. Take part in one team and one individual sport. d. Watch a sport on TV with a parent or some other adult member of your family. e. Attend a high school, college, or professional sporting event with your family or your den. a. Help a boy join Cub Scouting, or help a new Cub Scout through the Bobcat trail. b. Serve as a denner or assistant denner. c. Plan and conduct a den activity with the approval of your den leader. d. Tell two people they have done a good job. e. Leadership means choosing a way even when not everybody likes your choice. f. Complete the Character Connection for Compassion. Know. Tell why, as a leader, it is important to show kindness and concern for other people. Commit. Tell why a good leader must consider the ideas, abilities, and feelings of others. Practice. While you complete the requirements for this achievement,
1. RIDE RIGHT
(Do requirement (a) and three other requirements.)
(Do two requirements.)
(Backyard golf, Badminton, Croquet, Sidewalk shuffleboard, Kickball, Softball, Tetherball, Horseshoes, Volleyball)
Tell them how to play it, and then play it with them.
3. BUILDING MUSCLES
(Do all three requirements.)
Then do curl-ups, push-ups, the standing long jump, and the softball throw.
4. INFORMATION, PLEASE
(Do requirement a and three more requirements.)
5. JOT IT DOWN
Do requirement h and four other requirements.
and kept records, and tell what could tempt you to write something that
was not exactly true. Define honesty.
with others. Imagine you had reported something inaccurately and tell how you
could set the record straight. Give reasons that honest reporting
will earn the trust of others.
be honest when you are writing about real events.
6. SHAVINGS AND CHIPS
(Do all four requirements.)
Do all three requirements.
(Hammer, Hand saw, Hand drill, C-clamp, Wood plane, Pliers,
Crescent wrench, Screwdriver, Bench vise, Coping saw, Drill bit)
(Do requirement g and two other requirements.)
you would need to complete them. Then list the materials you could substitute for
items that you do not already have. Tell what it means to be resourceful.
that would make the results better if you did these projects again. Tell why it is important to
consider all available resources for a project.
make notes on which materials worked well in your projects and why.
Do five requirements.
(Do all five requirements.)
(Do requirement f and two other requirements.)
List ways leaders show they care about the thoughts and feelings of others.
Tell why it might be hard for a leader to protect another person's well-being.
Tell ways you can be kind and compassionate.
FOLLOW BIG BEAR'S ARROW POINT TRAIL !
find ways to be kind and considerate of others.
Now that your boy is a Bear Cub Scout he can still have lots of fun with his Bear Book! Baloo has electives for
him too. Electives are not like achievements. A boy can pick any requirement he likes from the electives and do it.
When he has completed 10 elective requirements he has earned his first arrow point, a gold one. After earning a Gold Arrow Point, he may complete
10 more requirements to earn a Silver Arrow Point. A Bear Cub Scout may wear as many Silver Arrow Points as he can earn under your Bear badge
When working on the achievements to earn his Bear badge, you may have seen some requirements you wanted to try but didn't. Now you can review the Achievements
section of your Bear Book with your boy and use any requirement he did not count toward his Bear badge. These achievement requirements now follow the same rules
as the elective requirements. Each one is a separate project. You can mix requirements from electives and unused achievements in any manner to get the ten you need
for each arrow point.
A Bear Cub Scout may earn arrow points from the Big Bear Cub Scout Book until he becomes a WEBELOS Scout.
Remember this important rule: If a boy completed an achievement requirement to earn his Bear badge, he cannot use it again to earn arrow points. But there are lots more.
The Gold Arrow Point is worn 3/4" below and centered under the Bear rank badge. Silver Arrow Points are worn in rows of two below, centered, and touching the Gold Arrow Point or previously earned Silver Arrow Points for the Wolf rank.
Recognizing a Cub's Progress
on the Wolf and Bear Trails
Your boy doesn't have to wait until he completes his entire Wolf or Bear trail before being recognized for his work. As a Wolf, when he completes any three achievements, his den leader can present
the Progress Toward Ranks patch to him. It's a diamond with a leather (or plastic) thong attached and a gold bead attached to one end. It is worn on the button of the right shirt pocket. Each time the boy completes three achievements
he will receive another gold bead. After he gets his fourth gold bead, he will receive his Wolf badge at a pack meeting.
As a Bear, red beads are presented for each three Bear achievements earned. After he gets his fourth red bead, he will receive his Bear badge at a pack meeting.
Cub Scouts may continue to wear this emblem after ranks are earned until they become WEBELOS Scouts.
As your boy completes the requirements for the achievements on the Wolf and Bear trails, be sure to review his work and sign
his book in the place for Akela's OK. At his next den meeting, he should show his book to his den leader who will record his progress and sign the book on the line provided.