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Boy Scout Merit Badge: Swimming

For Students 8th - 12th
This merit badge workbook for swimming provides a checklist of achievements necessary to secure this Boy Scout badge. It includes 10 potential health concerns related to swimming and asks about their prevention and treatment. This is a...
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Swimming Survivor Challenge I

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students review and/or learn basic Red Cross swimming skills. On the first day, the class is divided into Tribes based on the hit T.V. show Survivor. Each team has a task sheet that must be completed.
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Stewie the Duck Learns to Swim

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Make a splash with an interactive storybook that emphasizes water safety. Directed at preschoolers and primaries, the ducky tale and games reinforce the rules of wearing a life vest whenever near water, making sure to have a supervising...
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Stroke Length Does Matter

For Teachers 9th - 12th
A guide for competitive swimmers to take a look at how stroke length contributes to swimming efficiency. There is a PowerPoint and several websites for the swimmers to visit to gather information. They then keep track of their swimming...
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Water Fitness

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Toward the end of the school year when the weather warms up, take your high schoolers swimming! They perform various cardiovascular activities in the pool, beginning with a warm-up activity and followed by stretching, precardio,...
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Homeschooling Chronicles - Swim Team - The Right Fit!

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Finding a sport that works for the whole family is the true meaning of winning. Maybe it's not soccer, but swimming? Maybe it's not basketball, but archery? There is a sport for everyone!
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Introductory Learn to Swim

For Teachers K - 3rd
Students perform introductory swimming techniques. They review water safety rules. Students blow bubbles and put their head into the water. They touch designated body parts while standing in the water and finally touch the bottom of...
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Life and Death Situations in Swimming

For Teachers 8th - 12th
Students practice dealing with different water emergencies such as: "survival floating," and using a life preserver to pull others to safety.
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Swim Like a Whale or Fish?

For Teachers 1st - 5th
Students recognize the difference between whales and fish by categorizing them according to their method of swimming. They synthesize this information by simulating the swimming patterns of whales and fish and comparing it to their own.
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Water Safety: Grades 9-12

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Make a big splash with a lesson about water safety. After reading three articles related to water safety, high schoolers first choose one water safety rule to research and write a report summarizing their findings. They then use an...
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Seahorse Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students demonstrate swimming in a pool and review water safety rules. In this swimming lesson, students apply water safety rules in a game of tag. This lesson has variations to challenge more competent swimmers.
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Swimming Survivor Challenge II

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice safe use of a spinal board for a potential spinal injury in the water. They use head-chin support and head-splint techniques for in-line stabilization with a partner.
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Hamburger Press

For Teachers 2nd - 6th
Hamburger Press is an activity that is definitely based on cooperation. Players need to communicate and work together to increase the number of hamburger patties they can press between them. Use cut-up pieces of swim noodles for the...
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How Wet Can You Get?

For Teachers 5th - 9th
Students visit a swimming pool and brainstorm different water sports and what benefits swimming has over other types of exercise. They then discuss buoyancy and water pressure and when how objects sink or float before playing a game of...
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Humpty Dumpty

For Teachers 1st - 2nd
Students practice submerging their faces and heads in the water and blow bubbles when learning to swim. They practice this to the song of Humpty Dumpty.
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The Floating Head

For Teachers K - 3rd
Pupils practice the backfloat while swimming.
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Swimming Survivor Challenge - III

For Teachers 9th - 12th
High schoolers to learn the steps for administering CPR and practice with a partner.
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Groovy 60s Dances!

For Teachers 6th - 12th
1960s dances: The Twist, The Jerk, The Swim, The Monkey, The Mashed Potato, The Watusi, The Hitchhiker, and The Boog-a-loo. Introduce your class to the dances of the 60s. Find Motown music, watch online videos that show the different...
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Aquanaut: Webelos Activity Badge Workbook

For Students 6th - 8th
This worksheet includes a checklist of swimming-related accomplishments to achieve in order to earn the Aquanaut Webelos badge. If you are a P.E. or swim instructor, this may be useful to you too.
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Fun Dance

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
"Fun Dance" is a 32-count dance of some very basic dance moves. Walking forward, walking backward, grapevines left, grapevines right, some punching arm moves, and some swimming arm moves. Put on some upbeat music and get movin'.
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Swimming Survivor Challenge IV

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students practice using a mask, snorkel, and fins to collect items from the bottom of a pool.
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Wild Water Trivia

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students demonstrate proper swimming skills in an authentic environment. They use proper technique for whichever stroke is chosen while retrieving answers. They then bring it back to the shallow end and place it in the hula hoop.
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Nemo Tag 2

For Teachers 2nd - 5th
Several students are chosen to be taggers (and wear goggles), 2 more are chosen to be Dorie (and carry the blue fish), and Merlin (and carry the orange fish). The rest of the students are Nemo's. The Nemos begin on one of the mats...
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Sailors and Sharks

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students use the skills of fleeing and dodging in order to avoid being tagged. They begin standing on the ships (mats). One student, the shark, wears a pinney. At the signal from the teacher of "Sailors swim", the sailors scatter to a...

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