Cubs Jumpstart - Emergency Preparedness

A three week JumpStart for the newly developed Emergency Preparedness Award.
(See Scout's Canada site on Emergency Preparedness.)

Week 1

• Jumpstart (Cubs): Emergency Preparedness - Week 1
• Support Materials:
  • Full page printable word search #1
  • Four page printable word search #2
  • Red Tags “Emergency” / Green Tags “Not An Emergency” (3 of each to a page)

Week 2

• Jumpstart (Cubs): Emergency Preparedness - Week 2
• Support Material:
  • Building An Emergency Survival Kit (Handout)

Week 3

• Jumpstart (Cubs): Emergency Preparedness - Week 3
  • Dog Emergency Survival Kit (Hand out)
  • Emergency Pet Kit - Games Cards
  • Game Board
  • Are You Prepared? 11"x17" poster

Resources

• Your Emergency Preparedness Guide - 72 Hours - Is Your Family Prepared?
  • Smaller version that contains only the Nova Scotia provincial contact information - to save paper

More JUMPSTART packages available on the Suggested Cub Meetings page.

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Tried most of it, went well

Steve Matheson 1244403150|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover

In a pack like ours (only a few leaders) any help in planning is appreciated. (We are all busy and have a hard time getting together to plan.) The down side of using these JumpStarts is the false sense of "I don't need to prepare" it gave me. After a few minutes of panic to put things together, it went pretty well!

As with most JumpStarts, we found that we could not get all the material covered. Perhaps our 90 minute meeting is to blame, especially with the overhead of an opening, closing and Six inspection. Anyway, it is good to be able to choose which activities to do. (You could not PAY me enough to rap!)

We brought the parents in to stand behind their Cub during the week 3 game "Prepared" at closing. It was funny to see the Leaders (including me) fail a few of the prepareness questions and have to sit down with their Cubs. It showed that everyone was a somewhat prepared, but everyone could be a bit more prepared. I hope it was an eye-opener for the parents! A good wrap-up.

Thoughts for future JumpStarts: Explicitly start which activities tie directly to a badge or award requirement.

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Please note that this is a pilot site intended to help Scouters leading programs within Scouts Canada and is not officially endorsed or maintained by Scouts Canada.