Pe Central: Swimming Survivor Challenge Iii

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.

Students familiar with basic swimming strokes learn and review Red Cross swimming skills through this activity, which is loosely based on the television show "Survivor." Students, organized into small groups, or "tribes," earn points...

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...

Students able to swim well under water are ready to practice using a mask, snorkel, and fins while collecting items from the pool floor. Students, organized into small groups, work together to retrieve sunken "treasures" in limited...

Students review Red Cross swimming skills and practice safe use of a spinal board for a potential spinal injury in the water; students use head-chin support and head-splint techniques for in-line stabilization with a partner.

Learners 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.

Organized into 5 parts, this lesson combines physical activity with academic subjects including math, health, and geography. In part I, students calculate how many steps it would take to complete the Appalachian Trail. In parts II and...

High schoolers review and practice the steps for administering CPR.

Because push-ups are part of most fitness-related tests, it is important that students practice push-ups and, in the process, improve upper body strength. Students able to do push-ups and able to "hold a push-up position for at least 30...

Students to learn the steps for administering CPR and practice with a partner.