Wolf Rank (2nd Graders)
New Den Leader Resources:
Wolf Den Leader Material:
Wolf Rank Requirements:
Complete each of the six Wolf required adventures:
Call of the Wild
Council Fire
Duty to God Footsteps
Howling at the Moon
Paws on the Path
Running With the Pack
In addition to the six required adventures listed previously, complete at least one Wolf elective adventure of your den's or family's choosing from this list: Adventures in Coins, Air of the Wolf, Code of the Wolf, Cubs Who Care, Digging in the Past, Finding Your Way, Germs Alive!, Paws of Skill, Spirit of the Water
With your parent, guardian, or other caring adult, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide
Earn the Cyber Chip award for your age. (The Cyber Chip portion of this requirement may be waived by your parent or guardian if you do not have access to the internet.)
Call of the Wild (Required)
Complete Requirements 1-4 plus at least one other.
Attend one of the following:
A pack or family campout
An outdoor activity with your den or pack
Day camp
Resident camp
With your family or den, make a list of possible weather changes that could happen during your outing according to the time of year you are outside. Explain how you will be prepared for each one.
Do the following:
Recite the Outdoor Code with your leader.
Recite the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your leader. Talk about how these principles support the Outdoor Code.
After your outdoor activity or campout, list the ways you demonstrated being careful with fire or other dangers.
Show or demonstrate what to do:
In case of a natural disaster such as an earthquake or flood.
To keep from spreading your germs.
Show how to tie an overhand knot and a square knot.
While on a den or family outing, identify four different types of animals you see or explain evidence of their presence. Tell me how you identified them.
Council Fire (Required)
Adventure Goal: Build citizenship by learning more about the community and doing service.
Adventure Requirements:
Complete Requirements 1 and 2 plus at least one other.
With your den or pack, participate in a flag ceremony, and learn how to properly care for and fold the flag.
Participate in a community service project with your pack, den, or family.
With your parent or guardians permission, talk to a military veteran, law enforcement officer, member of the fire department, or someone else approved by your Den Leader. Talk about his or her service to the community or country. After you have visited with the individual, write a short thank-you note.
Learn about the changes in your community, and create a project to show your den how the community has changed.
Select one issue in your community, and present to your den your ideas for a solution to the problem.
Work with your den to develop a den duty chart, and perform these tasks for one month.
Participate in an event such as a parade or assembly celebrating military veterans.
Pack 6 Guidance:
Plan this adventure with one of the Pack Service projects - Beach Cleanup or SLO Foodbank (typically Foodbank volunteer day is in March)
Meeting Ideas
Gathering Ideas
Coin toss game
Craft Stick Puzzles (popsicle sticks where the scouts draw a picture on 5-10 sticks placed next to each other). Mix them up and let another scout try to put them together.
Odd or even game.
Practice performing the Flag Ceremony for an upcoming Pack Meeting. Learn how to properly fold a flag.
Ideas:
Visit the Coast Guard in Morro Bay (recommended). Coordinate with them for a date and time. They will talk with the Scouts, show some videos, and let the Scouts tour the boats.
If going to the Coast Guard, having a picnic lunch at Morro Rock and follow that with a beach cleanup to meet the service project requirement. This is a great, convenient way to fulfill requirements 2 and 3.
Visit the Cal Fire Station at the Airport
Invite the SLO Fire Department to the Den Meeting, or visit another Fire Department.
Do not visit the SLO Police Department as a Wolf Scout (this is a Bear activity)
Write thank-you notes to the American Legion Veterans. Pack 6 is chartered by the American Legion. If there are American Legion events, consider attending (keep it fun)
Wolf Duty To God Footsteps Adventure (Required)
Adventure Goal: Help Wolves explore family beliefs and develop an awareness of duty to God.
Adventure Requirements:
Complete Requirement 1 or 2 plus at least two others.
Discuss with your parent, guardian, den leader, or another caring adult what it means to do your duty to God. Tell how you do your duty to God in your daily life.
Earn the religious emblem of your faith that is appropriate for your age, if you have not already done so.
Offer a prayer, meditation, or reflection with your family, den, or pack.
Read a story about people or groups of people who came to America to enjoy religious freedom.
Learn and sing a song that could be sung in reverence before or after meals or one that gives encouragement, reminds you how to show reverence, or demonstrates your duty to God.
Visit a religious monument or site where people might show reverence. Create a visual display of your visit with your den or your family, and show how it made you feel reverent or helped you better understand your duty to God.
Ideas for Adventure Requirements:
Have scouts complete requirements at home. Define time in a den meeting for scouts to share what they did for requirements #1 and #2.
Pack 6 Guidance:
Let the parents know the requirements and have this adventure done as a family. It might be timed with the holiday season.
Wolf Howling at the Moon Adventure (Required)
Adventure Goal: Prepare Wolfs to organize a program for an audience and speak in front of a group.
Adventure Requirements:
Complete the following Requirements.
Show you can communicate in at least two different ways.
Work with your den or family to create an original skit.
Work together with your den or family to plan, prepare, and rehearse a campfire program to present at a den meeting or pack program.
Perform your role for a den meeting or pack program.
Pack 6 Guidance:
Plan this event with a Pack/Den Campout for the skits - or plan to perform them as part of an upcoming Pack meeting.
For skits, what works best is to find skit scripts on-line, print them out and let the scouts rehearse them. There are many classic Cub Scout skits that are recommended (i.e. Invisible Bench, Little Green Ball). The skits may be rehearsed at the campout, or at a Den Meeting. Done at a campout is likely met with more participation and more fun, but it depends on the group. It can make scouts nervous to perform in front of a Pack meeting. If a scout doesn't want to participate, they do not need to be forced. Keep it fun. Scouts who are shy about performing need to see other scouts and that will break the ice.
Paws on the Path Adventure (Required)
Adventure Goal: Helps Wolves develop their hiking skills and introduces navigation.
Adventure Requirements:
Complete Requirements 1-5. Requirements 6 and 7 are optional.
Show you are prepared to hike safely in any outdoor setting by putting together the Cub Scout Six Essentials to take along on your hike.
Explain what the buddy system is and why we always use it in Cub Scouts. Describe what you should do if you get separated from your group while hiking.
Choose the appropriate clothing to wear on your hike based on the expected weather.
Before hiking, recite the Outdoor Code and the Leave No Trace Principles for Kids with your leader. (This may be combined with Requirement 3 of The Call of the Wild Adventure.) After hiking, discuss how you showed respect for wildlife.
Go on a 1-mile hike with your den or family. Find two interesting things that you've never seen before and discuss with your den or family.
Name two birds, two insects, and/or two other animals that live in your area. Explain how you identified them.
Draw a map of an area near where you live using common map symbols. Show which direction is north on your map.
Pack 6 Guidance:
Meeting 1
Talk about the 6 Scout Essentials, buddy system, appropriate clothing
Outing
Plan a 1-mile hike
Location Ideas:
Morro Bay Black Hill Trail
Morro Bay Estuary/Elfin Forest
Montana de Oro
Johnson Ranch Trail
Pismo Preserve
Wolf Running With the Pack Adventure (Required)
Adventure Goal: Promote fitness and health.
Adventure Requirements:
Complete the following Requirements.
Play catch with someone in your den or family who is standing 5 steps away from you. Play until you can throw and catch successfully at this distance. Take a step back and see if you can improve your throwing and catching skills.
Practice balancing as you walk forward, backward, and sideways.
Practice flexibility and balance by doing a front roll, a back roll, and a frog stand.
Play a sport or game with your den or family, and show good sportsmanship.
Do at least two of the following: frog leap, inchworm walk, kangaroo hop, or crab walk.
Demonstrate what it means to eat a balanced diet by helping to plan a healthy menu for a meal for your den or family. Make a shopping list of the food used to prepare the meal.
Ideas for Adventure Requirements:
This entire adventure can be done in a single den meeting. Try a selection of different items to play catch - softball, nerfball, ping pong ball, bean bag, frisbee, football, water baloon, egg, ...
Lay a 2x4 board on the ground and have scouts walk from one end to the other, frontward, backward, and sideways. Then, stand it on its narrow side and support it between your feet at both ends so it does not fall over. Have scouts walk it again.
Remember to warm up and loosen muscles before doing these movements, and do them on a soft surface such as carpet or grass.
Let the den decide which game they'd like to play, from a collection you offer.
Try all four movements and have the scouts decide on the den favorite.
Do this at home.