Bear

The Bear program is a bit different from the Wolf program.  This time the cub must do is complete specific achievements to get their Bear award.  Please pay attention to the Parent Guide at the beginning of the book.  A Bear must complete one achievement in God, three in Country, four in Family, and four in Self.  Then they may do the others to get arrow points and do the activities in the arrow point trail.

God

1. Ways We Worship

2. Emblems of Faith

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Country

3. What Makes America Special?

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4. Tall Tales

This is a really fun achievement.  Spending a day reading these great tales is a great family activity.  You might even get a few "actors" to perform a few fun parts. Helaman's Academy Folk Tales and Fairy Tales unit.

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5. Sharing Your World with Wildlife

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6. Take Care of Your Planet

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7. Law Enforcement Is a Big Job

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Family

8. The Past Is Exciting and Important

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9. What's Cooking?

Family Outdoor Adventures has a family hike for your Bear to plan.

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10. Family Fun

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11. Be Ready

I can not impress how important this is for these young boys to learn these skills.  We hope they never have to use most of the skills learned, but if they do we want our young men prepared.  This is just the beginning of first aid training for the scout.  As a Boy Scout he will have many times to practice (if only pretend) these skills that he might as well learn them now and learn them well.  I also want a young boy with wits as emergencies arise in my home (and they do).

Living in the Northwest we have many natural disasters that can happen to us so being prepared in our family is very important.  There are a ton of web site dedicated to family preparedness.  I have found that as those are all well and great they can not help you be prepared unless you do something.  We have had fire drills, earthquake drills, lived through floods, and I personally lived through Mt. St. Helens' 1980 eruption.  Of course living with all this has made us go beyond what this elective requires for passing it off.  This is the link to our local emergency preparedness shop.  Here are a few other web sites we have found helpful.

Learn CPR or How to do CPR  Of course the best place to learn first aid is from your local Red Cross, so contact them or your local Boy Scout troop.  Be very cautious and serious about learning this correctly and from trained personnel.  Survival guidebook and checklist  or this checklist The checklist is a great starting point.  And of course the American Red Cross.  Since we live with the danger of earthquakes, this site is helpful even if it is S. California.  I like this web page because it talks so much about family preparedness.  Of course doing your own web page search will give you hundreds of web sites to choose from. 

A great Family Home Evening lesson and project.  And of course this leads into having a years supply of essentials.

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12. Family Outdoor Adventures

This is a great spring, summer or fall (even winter) activity for a young member of the family to plan and carry out.  What's Cooking has a requirement for trail mix. 

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13. Saving Well, Spending Well

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Self

14. Ride Right

This is another very fun and usually "easy" achievement for most 9 year old boys to complete.

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15. Games, Games, Games!

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16. Building Muscles

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17. Information, Please

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18. Jot It Down

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Shavings and Chips

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Sawdust and Nails

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Build a Model

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22. Tying It All Up

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Sports, Sports, Sports!

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Be A Leader

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