1. BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR MATERIALS REQUIRED Printed materials included
FULFILLS ADVANCEMENT REQUIREMENTS
TIGER – Team Tiger – Do an activity to help your community or neighborhood
WOLF – Council of Fire 2b – Learn about changes in community and create a project to show how community has changed over time
WOLF – Council of Fire 2c – Select 1 issue in community. Present solution/ideas
WOLF – Council of Fire 3b – Work together on Community Service Project
WOLF – Council of Fire 3a – Attend a Pack Committee meeting, present ideas for service project
BEAR – Duty to God 2a – Provide service to church/community/school
BEAR – Paws for Action 3b – Do a clean-up project to benefit community
AOL – Meet gov’t/community leader and discuss issue.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
Printed materials included
A small (hand-held) object … enough of the same of similar for one per person.
Pens/crayons
LEADER NOTES
If the Scouts have worked on Scouting for Food, that is a service project that would meet many of the above requirements. If you need another project that can be done during a meeting time, with great attendance, you might consider a “clean-up” around the school, weeding flower beds/planting/mulching, or the like. Ask the principal what the scouts could do to be of service.

2. BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR Meeting Plan GATHERING (5 minutes)
As Scouts enter, give them a and a crayon/pen, and get them busy on the task as they sit down.
OPENING (4 minutes):
Flag Ceremony/Pledge of Allegiance/Scout Oath and Law (consider dispensing with a formal flag ceremony and simply to the Pledge/Oath/Law standing in place to save time)
Scout Law POINT OF THE WEEK: HELPFUL! A Scout is HELPFUL. A Scout promises to “help other people at all times.” Being a good neighbor also means helping your neighbors, at home, in school, and in your community.

3. BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR Gathering Activity
For each of the pictures, decide if it shows something that is BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR or something that is NOT. Write a big “DO” or “NOT” over each picture.

4. LEADER NOTES --BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR INTRODUCTION … 5 minutes
Open a discussion as to why it’s important to be a good neighbor. How this relates to the Scout Law points of: helpful, friendly, courteous, kind. We have neighbors everyone … at home, at school, in our community, church, etc. Having an attitude of helpfulness towards everyone is also part of the Scout Oath (help other people at all times). It can be something simple from picking up a piece of paper that someone else has dropped to something large, like what we do with Scouting for Food, where we all work together.
Ask the Scouts to give an example of how they’ve been a GOOD NEIGHBOR (helpful) this week.
COMMUNITY AWARENESS (10 minutes)
Ask the Scouts how they think their community (school or neighborhood) has changed over the last 10, 20, 50 years (as appropriate). Lead them towards talking about an issue that faces their community (could be school community) today. This could be anything … from getting enough school supplies, to trash in the hallways, to bullies, to whatever ….
THEN, ask them how they CAN HELP. Discuss how even though they, as Scouts and young people, may not be able to completely solve an issue, they do have the ability to make a difference. Ask them WHAT THEY COULD DO to make a difference about this issue. If it is something the Pack could do together, this may be a good idea for a service project.
Time permitting: DO A POSTER or other visual about the changes they mentioned.

5. SERVICE PROJECT (Time TBD)
Most of the ranks require the Scouts to do a project to be of service. If the Pack has participated in Scouting for Food, that would qualify. However, if you did not, or if you did not have sufficient participation to allow most of the Scouts to meet this requirement, you may need to do something else. If it needs to be something you can do during the meeting time, trash clean up at the school is a good option. You will need gloves and trash bags. In a similar vein, if the school has flower beds, weeding, mulching, planting (although you may need to discuss budget with your DE if the school does not provide the materials). Alternatively, ask the principal what the Scouts could do to be of service.
with Scouting for Food, where we all work together.
Ask the Scouts to give an example of how they’ve been a GOOD NEIGHBOR (helpful) this week.
MEET WITH COMMUNITY LEADER -- (Time TBD)
If you have time in the meeting, this might be a good meeting to invite a speaker from the community. It could even be the PRINCIPAL or ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL or COUNSELOR from the school. This person would be a great guest speaker to discuss with the scouts the issues facing their community/school, and to suggest service projects. You could work the the Scouts in advance to prepare questions to ask, and also afterwards to write a THANK YOU.
You could make a BIG poster board sized thank you for all the Scouts to sign, or do some other FUN way to thank them.