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BSA National Training opportunities
Check out The BSA National Training Page at  http://www.scouting.org/nav/boyscout/atrns.html

Literature:

• You'll get your leader-specific Handbook (e.g. the The Scoutmaster Handbook) when you take Leader-Specific Training.
  

• Scoutmasters: every six months you need to conduct a training day for your patrol leaders, SPL, and ASPL. Here is a powerpoint presentation to go with the video you order from the scout shop
  
• You'll want to learn asap about local poisonous plants (tenderfoot requirement 11) here in TAC.

  Here is an article in German: http://www.tac-bsa.org/german_poisonious_plant_german_article.pdf
  along with an English translation: http://www.tac-bsa.org/german_poisionous_plants.rtf

• Order the new 2004 version Boy Scout Fieldbook, which has been revised to useful, practical tips for anyone who wants to be active in the outdoors, including all-new chapters on

  • Cold winter survival
    
  • mountain-biking
    
  • climbing
    
  • kyaking
    
  • treking on horseback.

    You'll love it!

• Your troop probably has a complete library of merit badge booklets. You could borrow camping, cooking, or any other booklet you're interested in.
  
• Some other great materails are in a 1977 junior leader training weekend sylabus:

  http://www.tac-bsa.org/jlt_trng_manual_1977.pdf(4 MB)

• Scouting Magazine has its complete archive online: http://www.scoutingmagazine.org/
  

• Great outdoor cooking recepies, including the recipe, "Best of Both Potatoes," that Troop 240 used to win "Best All round meal" at the 2003 Fall Camporee.

Guide to Safe Scouting: Lightning Safety   Powerpoint Presentation to teach outdoor lightning safety, (11 MB) copied from the National Weather Service Web Site More great teaching materials for teaching lightning safety: http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/teachers.htm Dangerous Plants in Germany a PowerPoint presentation by Kevin Drescher

Useful scouter resource links:

Merit Badge Research Center:	http://www.meritbadge.com
Animated Knots:	http://www.mistral.co.uk/42brghtn/knots/42ktmenu.html
The Scouter Network:	http://www.scouter.com/
The U.S. Scouting Service Project:	http://usscouts.org/
The Net Woods:	http://www.netwoods.com
The MacScouter:	http://www.macscouter.com
The Scouter Crossing:	http://www.scoutxing.com
The Insane Scouter:	http://www.insanescouter.com
The Inquiry Net - your complete scouting resource center!	http://www.inquiry.net
Online Scout Songbook.	http://www.scoutsongs.com/