Curated OER
Kids Health: Swimming
This resource provides information about how to swim safely, and maintain water safety all the time.
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Swimming Teachers' Association
Founded in 1932, the Swimming Teachers' Association has a charitable status and aimss to preserve lives by teaching swimming, life-saving and survival techniques.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Staying Safe While in the Water
In addition to providing tips to help you stay safe when playing in or near a swimming pool, lake, or water park, this website includes statistics about pool-related injuries and drowning.
Curated OER
Kids Health: Water Safety
Going to a beach or a pool can make for a great time if one is conscious of potential hazards that are associated with these locations. This site covers important considerations necessary for an enjoyable yet safe experience.
PE Central
Pe Central: Swimming Life & Death Situations
Teach your students how to transform a pair of jeans or other piece of clothing into a life preserver while swimming. Learn how one teacher helps his students create their own life-saving flotation devices.
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Bridges: Applied Lesson Plans: Sink or Swim
This is an applied lesson plan for water safety. You are a lifeguard and must communicate the rules to children and their parents so that they can have a fun, safe, birthday party. This and other applications are given in this lesson.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Swimming
Look here to can get expert advice on swimming. Find out what gear you'll need, safety tips, games to play, and the basics you'll have to master in order to learn how to swim.
PE Central
Pe Central: Swimming Survivor Challenge Ii
Students able to swim should learn and practice basic first aid. Swimmers learn and discuss skills shown on the "Survivor Chllange" task sheet and spinal injury checksheet. Then they learn how to properly use a spinal injury backboard...
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Live and Learn: Swimming Pool Safety
Find a comprehensive list of things that can be done around household pools to prevent injuries and accidents.
Read Works
Read Works: Splash Into Summer
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read about safety tips for the summer. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in author's purpose.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Snorkeling
Meet an expert at snorkeling and learn some basics on how to play. Find out what gear you'll need, safety tips, and fun facts.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Centers for Disease Control: Bam! Body and Mind: Surfing
Meet an expert at surfing and learn some basics on how to play. Find out what gear you'll need, safety tips, and how it relates to science.