Scouting Ideals
The Scout Motto.
What is "be prepared"?
The Leave No Trace principle that encourages Scouts to preserve the natural beauty of nature for everyone to enjoy.
What is "Leave What You Find"?
This is the very first step a Scout should take when arriving at the scene of an accident.
What is the check to ensure the scene is safe (e.g., leaking fuel, fire, etc)?
This three-word phrase helps Scouts identify and avoid poison ivy and poison oak.
What is "Leaves of three, let it be"?
What are the three knots a Scout must earn to reach Tenderfoot rank?
What are the square-knot, taut-line hitch, and the two half-hitches?
The Scout Slogan.
What is "do a good turn daily"?
The goal of this Leave No Trace principle is to avoid disturbing animals.
What is "Respect Wildlife"?
These are the "Hurry Cases", life-threatening medical emergencies that require immediate action.
What is stopped bleeding, unconsciousness, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning?
This essential process of life helps convert the sun's energy to glucose and is performed by plants.
What is photosynthesis?
When passing a knife to another Scout, they must say these words before letting go.
What is "thank you"?
The Scout Law.
What is "a scout is: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, clean, brave, and reverent"?
Scouts must only build these in permitted areas, with a firekeeper at all times, and they must be extinguished before leaving.
What are campfires?
The three rules used to treat this condition are: (1) keep the victim calm, (2) lie them on their back with their feet raised, and (3) keep them calm.
What is Shock?
Every food web and food chain requires these three trophic levels so energy is produced, consumed, and organic matter is recycled back into the environment.
What are producers, consumers, and decomposers?
This knot is essential for starting/finishing lashings and securing a rope to a pole.
What is the clover hitch?
The Scout Oath.
What is "on my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to god and my country, and to obey the Scout Law; to help other people at all times, to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight."
According to the Leave No Trace Principle "Travel and Camp on Durable Surfaces", Scouts should always avoid this when walking on a trail.
What is "widening the trail/spreading out"?
When a person is choking and cannot speak or breathe, they should do this.
What is the Heimlich Maneuver (abdominal thrusts)?
Egg, larva, pupa, and adult make up the four stages of this biological process seen in insects like butterflies.
What is metamorphosis?
Scouts must ensure no other person is within this area when using a knife, saw, or axe by holding the blade and making an arm's width circle.
What is a blood circle?
The Outdoor Code.
What is "As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manners, be careful with fire, be considerate in the outdoors, and be conservation-minded."
This is the recommended depth (in inches) for a cathole, used for disposing of human waste in the wilderness.
What is 6 to 8 inches?
While performing CPR, it is helpful to have this song in your head to ensure you are performing the recommended rate of compressions per minute.
What is "Stayin' Alive" by the Bee Gees?
This celestial object is the only star in the night sky that doesn't appear to move.
What is Polaris/the North Star?
These two practices are essential for ensuring the ends of synthetic and natural rope don't fray.
What is fusing (synthetic) and whipping (natural)?