Sizzle of the Outdoor Program

John Lin

Image of Scouting Program

• When you think about a Scout troop, what image comes into your mind?

• doing community service• Scouts in uniform in a flag ceremony, parade

or at a patriotic event. • Scouts hiking, camping and fun outdoor

activities..

Scouting’s Promise

• The Boy Scout Handbook about outdoor programs - Scouting promises you the great outdoors. As a Scout, you can learn how to camp and hike without leaving a trace, and how to take care of the land. You’ll study wildlife up close and learn about nature all around you. There are plenty of skills for you to master, and you can teach others what you know. Everybody helping everyone else—that’s part of Scouting, too.

Back to Nature

在家打電動 ,還是走出戶外看雲去

Outdoor Program and Skills

• Deeply entwined with outdoor experiences in earliest Scouting program.

• Outdoors/Nature can activate Scouts’ imaginations. • Excitement, fun, adventure, camping, sleeping

outside, and facing challenges with their friends. • The outdoors is the stage.• For Scoutmasters, the outdoors is key to delivering

the promise of Scouting.

Classroom at Outdoor

• Use the skills they are mastering. • Solve problems as a team. • Look out for one another.• Learn self-discipline. • Respect others and the environment. • Encounter situations that require them to become leaders. • Enjoy the beauty in nature. • Learn the value of leaving no trace (LNT) in the wilderness.

Scoutmaster’s Challenge

• Scoutmasters have the ability to involve Scouts in outdoor programs that will help build their character, encourage citizenship, and develop their physical, mental, and emotional fitness. Camping is one of the primary tools used by the Boy Scouts of America to achieve these goals. —The Scoutmaster Handbook, Chapter 9, “The Outdoor Program”

Outdoor Programs• Troop’s outdoor Opportunities at a minimum, 10 days/nights

outdoors each year.• Troop and patrol hikes • Short-term camping • Conservation and service projects • Resident camping • Camporees and Jamborees • Council high-adventure programs • National and council high-adventure bases

Planning and Resource

• Yearly Planner• SVMB Council Events• Other Council Events

Planning and Resource

• Troop Yearly Planner

Holiday T-468 Regular Meeting:

District Round Table Troop Meeting -- 1st Thursday and 3rd Saturday

Regular Troop Meeting Committee Meeting -- 1st Thursday 7:00pm Theme SIC AIC

Outdoor Activity District Roundtable -- 2nd Tuesday Evening

Community Service PLC -- 3rd Saturday after Troop Meeting

SMC -- Below First class @Outing, Above @Indoor (2nd Tursday)

BOR -- @Indoor (4th Tursday)

Su M Tu W Th F Sa

JAN 1 2 3 4 1/1: New Year

5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Winter Break: 12/23/13 - 1/3/14 : Milpitas , Frem ont, San Jose Sports

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 25:Ski or winter sports 2: Ball gam es

19 20 21 22 23 24 25 1/20: Martin Luther King holiday 18:Flag/Yell contes t

26 27 28 29 30 31

ASM Meeting

FEB 1

2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Communication

9 10 11 12 13 14 15 2/17: Presidents Day holiday 6: Speech/Debate

16 17 18 19 20 21 22 15:Morse code

23 24 25 26 27 28 2/21-2/23: Cisco Grove Bear Paw

[Update: 04-01-2014] T-468 YEAR 2014 PLANNING (Troop website: http://bsa-t468.50webs.com/)

Planning and Resource

• SVMB Council Events

Outdoor Activities - Camping30 Miler

Snow Camp

Summer Camp

City Camp

Raining Camp

Outdoor Activities - HikingCity Hike

Philmont

Rim of Bay

30-Miler Hike

Outdoor Activities - Water

KayakingRafting

Fishing

Swiming

Outdoor Activities - Climbing

Rock Climbing

Summer Camp

Tree Climbing

Outdoor Activities - ShootingArchery

Black power shooting

SlingShot

Cow Head Roping

The Challenge of Delivering the Outdoor Program

• As adults, we make the opportunity possible. We create boundaries and a format within which Scouts have the freedom to carry out their experiences the way they wish. The boy-led troop helps make this happen.

Make Things Happen, Don’t Wait Things Happen

Scoutmaster’s Role• Resourcing and facilitating for troop to have a successful outdoor

experiences.• Starting small within the skill levels and comfort zones of Scouts

and Scoutmasters, then more challenging and adventures. • A troop can start with tailgate camping and learn many outdoor

skills together, and bring more varieties of outdoor activity. • Try as many as possible. • The perspective of a boy’s outdoor adventure is different from an

adult’s. (the Scouts got cold and wet, the tents blew down, critical ingredients for the evening meal were forgotten, etc. can be perceived by boys as fine & fun memories

Scoutmaster’s Role .. Continue• Practice the skills they have, develop new skills, assess their

performance, learn from their mistakes, and get back out there for another adventure as soon as they can.

• Learn together; adults and youth can use the resources to plan the outdoor adventures, gain experience and confidence together.

• For Scoutmasters, expend energy where the boys can resolve issues; putting together the framework of the boy-led troop, for example, helping plan worthwhile activities in PLC, and ensuring activities comply with the safety policies of the BSA.

Summary

• Outdoor program brings sizzle to Scouting• Instilling the values of Scouting, for encouraging

advancement, and practice skills. • Scoutmaster’s responsibilities for the outdoor

program … skills and safety. • The training provides tools and the resources to

make the outdoor experience a strong, vital part of your troop’s program.

Pop Quiz• 1. The boy-led troop is a valuable tool for planning and

conducting the outdoor program. True ____False ____ • 2. If a troop has an active, exciting outdoor program,

advancement is a natural result. True ____False ____ • 3. Through Scouting’s outdoor program, young people can

learn how to camp and hike without leaving a trace and how to take care of the land. True ____False ____

• 4. At a minimum, Scouts should be spending 10 days and nights outdoors each year. True ____False ____

• 5. The BSA’s outdoor program is many things, but very high on the list is the fact that it should be fun. True ____False ____