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 ONE DAY ACTIVITY: WINTER SKILLS - PATHFINDERS |
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THEME: "WINTER SKILLS PROGRAM AT PATHFINDER CAMP"
Our Troop was approached by local Pathfinder Girl Guide groups and asked to put on a series of training sessions designed to teach outdoor skills. Our Troop vounteered to provide a one day Winter skills program for the Pathfinders.
OBJECTIVE: Provide an overview of outdoor skills in a winter environment for the Pathfinder girls to learn from
GOAL: Pathfinder girls learn through hands on experience how to conduct outdoor skills
SCOUT TEACHING RESOURCES: Outdoor skills workshop materials. Permit guidelines. Pocket knives, stoves, lanterns, hatchets, axes and matches. Dutch Oven.
MISC RESOURCES: list examples such as First Aid kits, items for campfires etc...
SCOUT LEADER PREPARATION: leaders who are supervising the scout youth must have outdoor skills. Youth who are doing the instruction must have achieved the Scout Safety permit or equivalent for the skill they are demonstrating.
PATHFINDER LEADER PREPARATION: Menu planning for lunch that the scouts will cook for the Pathfinders.
High Level Overview.
1. Arrive at Girl Guide Camp and setup, displaying equipment for the Pathfinders to see.
2. Locate area where each skill is to be demonstrated.
3. Setup a rotation schedule skill sessions in the AM
4. Pathfinder girls divided into groups and girls rotate around each skill session
5. Scouts setup a Dutch Oven and cook lunch over a camp fire and share it with the Pathfinders.
6. Setup a rotation schedule skill sessions in the PM
7. Tear down and leave no trace.
8. Review activities and lessons learned.
COST TO PARENTS: One in of soup per scout for communal soup pot. Packed lunch.
YOUTH PREPARATION: The youth had to be dressed appropriately for winter weather. Ditty bags
SKILLS ROTATIONS
1. Hands on interactive demonstration for safe use of Pocket knives
2. Hands on interactive demonstration for safe use of hatchets for choopping fire wood
3. Hands on interactive demonstration for setup of camp fire
4. Hands on interactive demonstration for setup of winter leave no trace camp fire
5. Hands on interactive demonstration for Stoves (Naphtha and gas canister)
6. Hands on interactive demonstration for 2 burner colman stove (Naphtha and gas canister)
7. Hands on interactive demonstration for creating winter shelters (Snow Shelter, Quinzee)
8. Cooking with Dutch Oven
9. Other: Ignition of campfire without matches (Birch Bark, and flint/steel strikers with dryer lint, steel wool and battery)
SPECIAL NOTE
After the skills rotations were completed in the afternoon the Pathfinder girls invited the scouts to stay for supper which the boys thought was great. As an added bonus, the Pathfinders built and lit the evening campfire and both Scout boys and Pathfinder girls had a great evening campfire. Though this was intended to be a 6 to 8 hour program activity, the invitation to supper and evening campfire turned it into a 11 hour program activity.
This was a terrific linking activity and since this activity took place our scout Troop has performed three more linking activities with the Pathfinder girls (knots, Fall shelter building, Cooking with Cardboard Ovens)
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  Mon May 09, 2011 10:06 pm |
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