The Bear Trail

There are (6) Core / Required Adventures in the Wolf Rank program:

Click Link below for the PDF Worksheet @ US Scouting Service Project Website.

Bear Adventure: Bear Claws

Learn about three common designs of pocketknives.
Learn knife safety and earn your Whittling Chip.*
Using a pocketknife, carve two items.

*One of the items carved for requirement 3 may be used to fulfill Whittling Chip requirement 3.

Bear Adventure: Bear Necessities

While working on your Bear badge, camp overnight with your pack. If your chartered organization does not permit Cub Scout camping, you may substitute a family campout or a daylong outdoor activity with your den or pack.
Attend a campfire show, and participate by performing a song or skit with your den.
Make a list of items you should take along on your campout.
Make a list of equipment that the group should bring along in addition to each Scout's personal gear.
With your den, plan a cooked lunch or dinner that is nutritious and balanced. Make a shopping list, and help shop for the food. On a campout or at another outdoor event, help cook the meal and help clean up afterward.
Help your leader or another adult cook a different meal from the one you helped prepare for requirement 5. Cook this meal outdoors.
Help set up a tent. Pick a good spot for the tent, and explain to your den leader why you picked it.
Demonstrate how to tie two half hitches and explain what the hitch is used for.
Learn how to read a thermometer and a barometer. Keep track of the temperature and barometric pressure readings and the actual weather at the same time every day for seven days.

Bear Adventure: Fellowship and Duty to God

Do either requirement 1 OR requirement 2.

Earn the religious emblem of your faith.
Complete 2a and at least two of requirements 2b–2d.
- Working with a parent or guardian, spiritual advisor, or religious leader, provide service to help a place of worship or spiritual community, school, community organization, or chartered organization that puts into practice your ideals of duty to God and strengthens your fellowship with others.
- Identify a person whose faith and duty to God you admire, and discuss this person with your family.
- Make a list of things you can do to practice your duty to God as you are taught in your home or place of worship or spiritual community. Select two of the items, and practice them for two weeks.
- Attend a religious service, den or pack meeting worship service, or time of family reflection and discussion about your family's beliefs.

Bear Adventure: Bear Fur, Feathers and Ferns

While hiking or walking for one mile, identify six signs that any mammals, birds, insects, reptiles, or plants are living nearby the place where you choose to hike.
Name one animal that has become extinct in the last 100 years and one animal that is currently endangered Explain what caused their declines.
Visit one of the following: zoo, wildlife refuge, nature center, aviary, game preserve, local conservation area, wildlife rescue group, or fish hatchery. Describe what you learned during your visit.
Observe wildlife from a distance. Describe what you saw.
Use a magnifying glass to examine plants more closely. Describe what you saw through the magnifying glass that you could not see without it.
Learn about composting and how vegetable waste can be turned into fertilizer for plants.
Plant a vegetable or herb garden.

Bear Adventure: Bear Grin and Bear It

Play a challenge game or initiative game with the members of your den. Take part in a reflection after the game.
Working with the members of your den, organize a Cub Scout carnival and lead it at a special event.
Help younger Cub Scouts take part in one of the events at the Cub Scout carnival.
After the Cub Scout carnival, discuss with the members of your den and your den leader what went well, what could be done better, and how everyone worked together to make the event a success.
Make and present an award to one of the adults who helped you organize the activities at the Cub Scout carnival.

Bear Adventure: Paws for Action

Do the following:
1. Find out about two famous Americans. Share what you learned.
2. Find out where places of historical interest are located in or near your community, town, or city. Go and visit one of them with your family or den.
3. Learn about our flag. Display it at home for one month. Say the Pledge of Allegiance and learn its meaning.
Do the following:
1. Visit a local sheriff's office or police station, or talk with a law enforcement officer visiting your den. During the visit, take turns with your den members asking questions that will help you learn how to stay safe.
2. During or after your visit with a law enforcement officer, do at least two of the following:
  - Practice one way police gather evidence by taking fingerprints, taking a shoe print, or taking tire track casts.
  - Make a list of emergency numbers to post in your home, and keep a copy with you in your backpack or wallet.
  - With your family, develop a plan to follow in case of an emergency, and practice the plan at least three times. Your family can determine the emergency, or you can develop several plans.
  - Discuss with your parent or another adult you trust any worries you have about your safety or a friend's safety.
  - If you have younger brothers and sisters, make sure they know how to call for help in an emergency.
Do the following:
1. Learn about the energy your family uses and how you can help your family decrease its energy use.
2. Do a cleanup project that benefits your community.

After completing the (6) Bear Core Adventures, the Bear Cub needs to complete (1) Bear Elective Adventure. Once all (7) Adventures are completed your Bear Cub will earn his Bear Badge / Rank Patch.

Also, after completing the required adventures, the Bear Cub can earn additional elective belt loops by completeing other Bear Elective Adventures.

Note to Parents

Your Den Leader will track the Den Activities and record them in Scoutbook.
You should use the Scout Handbook to track each of the Adventures done at home. There are places to "Sign Off" on each activity in the handbook.
Start a Scout Folder to store papers and projects as your scout completes them.
Any activity that requires your scout to do something such as (make a list, draw a poster, record an activity etc.) needs to be show to the DL to receive credit for the item.
Bring the Handbook (and folder) to a Den meeting to have your family activities recorded by the Den Leader.

Our Pack uses "Scoutbook" software to track the your scouts advancements. This software is a "web app" and can be accessed from any device that gets an internet connection such as a smartphone, computer, laptop, tablet or iPad. You, as the parent, have access to view the items recorded for your scout. It is up to you to make sure what you have turned in and what was done in the den meeting was recorded correctly.

We also use Scoutbook to purchase appropriate badges and awards. Make sure you are getting proper credit (by working with your Den Leader) and the recognition will come at each of the Pack Meetings. Scoutbook will track your child's progress for as long as they are in the Pack.