Scouts BSA Advancement Changes
Rank Changes
Scout 1e: Repeat from memory the Outdoor Code. List the seven principles of Leave No Trace. Explain the difference between the two.
Scout 5: Tell what you need to know about using a pocketknife safely and responsibly.
Scout 6: With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide and earn the Cyber Chip Award for your grade or view the Personal Safety Awareness videos ( with your parent or Guardian's permission)
Tenderfoot 1c: Explain how you demonstrated the Outdoor Code and Leave No Trace on campouts or outings.
Tenderfoot 5a. Explain the importance of the buddy system as it relates to your personal safety on outings and where you live. Use the buddy system while on a troop or patrol outing.
Tenderfoot 5c: Explain the rules of safe and responsible hiking, both on the highway and cross-country, during the day and at night.
Second Class 1b: Recite the principles of Leave No Trace from memory. Explain how you follow them on all outings.
Second Class 2b: Use a pocketknife, and a saw or axe if needed, to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel wood for a cooking fire.
Second Class 2c: Using a minimum-impact method, and at an approved outdoor location and time, use the tinder, kindling, and fuel wood from Second Class requirement 2b to demonstrate how to build a fire. Unless prohibited by local fire restrictions, light the fire. After allowing the flames to burn safely for at least two minutes, safely extinguish the flames with minimal impact to the fire site. Properly dispose of the ashes and any charred remains.
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