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Scouts BSA Merit Badge: Using Google Classrooms for Virtual Merit Badges

This crazy coronavirus has certainly changed the world we live in. All of us are adapting the way we shop, the way we socialize, and the way we parent. We’re grappling with an overwhelming amount of information and the politicization of every decision we make, most of the time struggling to determine the lesser ofContinue reading “Scouts BSA Merit Badge: Using Google Classrooms for Virtual Merit Badges”

Cub Scout Leadership: Annual Pack Program Planning

UPDATED 6/5/2024: The Sample Pack Family Calendar template has been updated! Please see the new link below. I’ve been mulling over what I would jot down next, and I had considered Annual Pack Program Planning but thought it was too much to wrap my head around these days. Fifth-grade fractions and decimals and ninth-grade geometryContinue reading “Cub Scout Leadership: Annual Pack Program Planning”

Pack-to-Troop Transitions: Preparing AOLs (and their PLs) for Scout Rank

This article includes references to the Cyber Chip, which retired in 2022. Cub Scouts are now referred to “The Protect Yourself Rules” video series found at https://www.scouting.org/programs/cub-scouts/preview-adventures/protect-yourself-rules/. If you had asked me two months ago how my AOL Bridging plan was coming along, I would’ve told you I was prepared for our big April event. IContinue reading “Pack-to-Troop Transitions: Preparing AOLs (and their PLs) for Scout Rank”