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  • ACTION POINT I
    • Introduction and Focus
    • Presenting a Fun Troop Meeting
      • Fundamental Conditions for Successful Activities
    • Utilizing an Activity-Based Sequential Approach to Program Planning
    • Utilizing Comprehensive Programming Approach
  • ACTION POINT II
    • Providing Ongoing Exposure
    • Providing Increased Visibility
  • ACTION POINT III
    • Scout Skill Challenge Activities
    • Outdoor Skill How-To Videos
    • Teaching Outdoor Skills
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Outdoor Skill How-To Videos

Through existing Scouting America channels, promote the use of the How-to Video Resources featured in the Troop Leader Resource Hub, helping to assure the youth and adult Scout leaders who are in the position to present these skills feel confident explaining, demonstrating, and sharing early rank-required and more advanced outdoor skills to troop members.

BASIC KNOTS
– Bowline
– Clove Hitch
– Lark’s Head
– Sheepshank
– Sheet Bend
– Square Knot
– Taut-line Hitch
– Timber Hitch
– Two Half Hitches

EARLY RANK REQUIRED FIRST AID SKILLS
–  Bandages
–Bites ans Stings
– Blisters and Second Degree Burns
– Cold-Related Injuries
– First Aid Carries
– Heat-Related Injuries
– Object in the Eye and Hyperventalation
– Puncture Wounds
– Venomous Snake Bites and Shock

FIRE BUILDING SKILLS
– Lighting and Feeding a Fire
– Laying a Fire
– After a Fire
– Flint and Steel
– Bow and Drill

NAVIGATION ANDMEASUREMENTS
– Facing a Bearing
– Using a Map
– Measuring Heights and Widths

WOODS TOOLS
– Using a Camp Saw
– Using a Hand Ax and Knife
– Making Wooden Stakes

LASHINGS
– Diagonal Lashing
– Filipino Diagonal Lashing
– Floor Lashing (Double)
– Ladder Lashing
– Round Lashing
– Shear Lashing
– Square Lashing (Mark II)
– Tripod Lashing (Plain Turns)
– West Country Round Lashing

PIONEERING KNOTS
– Butterfly Knot
– Carrick Bend
– Clove Hitch / Half Hitches
– Constrictor Knot
– Draw Hitch
– Rolling Hitch
– Square Knot (Visual Approach)
– Roundturn with Two Half Hitches
– Water Knot
– Zeppelin Bend

PIONEERING SKILLS
– Anchoring Pioneering Projects
– Back Splice
– Eye Splice
– American Whipping
– Half Knot (West Country) Whipping
– Half Hitches and Lashings
– Making Rope
– Ropes and Spars
– Rope Tackle
– Sailmaker’s Whipping
– Short Splice

TARPS AND DINING FLIES
– Tarps and Patrol Dining Fly
– Basic Patrol Dining Fly
– Patrol Dining Fly Demonstration

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