Scouting at Home - What can you do in a Virtual Meeting?

While you don't need to use meeting time for a snack or clean up, you can still do some or all of the other parts of a traditional meeting.

The Arrival Activity: (5 minutes)

Consider having a WELCOME QUESTION on the screen to answer in the chat box or on screen if you enable to annotation tool.

Opening Ceremony: (1 minute)

Have a Patrol Leader or Unit Leaders welcome everyone to the meeting and start of the night.

Updated: (5 minutes)

You can share any new here

As you get used to Scouting virtually, this could be a good time for your scouts (collectively) to share what Scouting they have done since you last met, and how they are going with some of the bigger challenges they might we working towards. 

An Activity: (12 minutes)

This is a great time to get started or work on program and achievements! think about what you can send the day before or the morning of the meeting so that they can come in prepared to interact. That helps you make the most of the time.

Here are some ideas to get started:

• Get silly: Play charades, Taboo or Pictionary. Have a scavenger hunt for silly items that might be around the house
• Get the wiggles out: Do yoga or have a dance party together.
• Get artistic: Draw portraits of one another and share.
• Explore STEM: Create a race car from found materials. Share favourite recipes and send then to each other to try. Create a cookbook. Have a Top Chef Challenge. Share science experiments.
• Learn more about each other: Share best and worst things that happened today (Roses and Thorns)
• For Scouts: Watch a TED talk and discuss. Create your own videos.

Remember: You can screen share, so anything that you can put on your screen can be shared - like videos, pictures and more.

Closing: (5 minutes)

Be creative! How would you and your Scouts like to end the night? Is it a moment of reflection, to be thankful, to appreciate what we have and what we can do? Ask ahead and allow each Scout the opportunity to contribute - maybe you have two Scouts who do this each wee, rotating through the Section.

Source: https://scouts.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/running-an-online-meeting-idea-1.pdf