Second Class
- Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain What map symbols mean.
Using a compass and a map you've drawn, take a 5-mile hike (or 10 mile bike ride) approved
by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.
- Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities, two of which
included camping overnight. On one campout, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent
that you pitched.
- On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of knife, saw, and ax, and
describe when they should be used. Use the tools to 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 safety 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 selected.
- Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered
organization, community, or troop activity.
- Participate in an approved service project, minimum of 1 hour.
- Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of wild animals in your community.
- Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and
internal poisoning.
- Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
- Demonstrate first aid for an object in the eye, bite of a suspected rabid animal,
puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fish hook, serious burns (second degree), heat
exhaustion, and shock.
- Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. Demonstrate your ability to jump
feetfirst 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 or leg, by reaching with a
suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should
not be attempted when reaching or throwing 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, and tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss
your participation in the program with your family.
- Show Scout spirit.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Be in a board of review.
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