Here are the requirements for the First Class badge.
| 1. | Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass. |
| 2. | Using a map and compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.). |
| 3. | Since joining, have participated in 10 separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight. Demonstrate the principles of Leave No Trace on these outings. |
| 4a. | Help plan a patrol menu for one campout that includes at least one breakfast, one lunch, and one dinner, and that requires cooking at least two of the meals. Tell how the menu includes the foods from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs. |
| 4b. | Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients. |
| 4c. | Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals. |
| 4d. | Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish. |
| 4e. | On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in require- ment 4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup. |
| 5. | Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. citizen. |
| 6. | Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community. |
| 7a. | Discuss when you should and should not use lashings. Then demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together. |
| 7b. | Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget. |
| 8a. | Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used. |
| 8b. | Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone. Now then, I would like for you to comment on your favorite way to tie the bowline. Now that you have earned your First Class have fun (but be careful) and sew on that badge. |
