Archive for the ‘Safety’ Category:
Length: 20 mins
Age Range: Pre-School (3 – 6yrs old)
Space Requirements: large, open room; or outdoors
Supply List: None
Description:
Simon gives an instruction by saying Simon Says, for example, “Simon Says touch your nose.” If Simon doesn’t say “Simon Says”, you cannot do what he said to do! To include fitness factors, have Simon issue challenges such as jogging or tiptoeng in place, bending and stretching, or bending and straightening knees.
Benefits:
Excellent body-part identification game which gives children the opportunity to move around and be active!
Purpose: Demonstrate the effect of strong wave action on a swimmer
Equipment: Flutter boards
Description
- Have students stand side by side in shallow water facing the edge (about 1 m away).
- Each student holds a flutter board lengthwise and pushes the water away from them (making a wave towards the edge).
- Each student in turn (with or without a flutter board) swims down the column of waves.
- Discuss with students the dangers of waves.
Purpose: Learn about weeds as a water hazard
Equipment: 6-12 hockey pucks or rocks; 6-12 green plastic garbage bags, cut to strips, with bottom seam intact
Description:
- Put pucks in the bottom of the garbage bags and let them sink into the shallow end to simulate weeds growing out of the bottom.
- Have students swim through the weed garden.
- Have students swim through the weeds with a lot of thrashing and then very smoothly and slowly.
Discuss the expereince
Purpose: Show the danger of currents
Description:
- Have students hold hands in a circle in shallow water, if possible near the corner of the pool.
- while holding hands tell students to begin to run in one direction.
- when an effective circular current occurs, yell, “Swim” and have all students try to swim against the current.
- Discuss the dangers of currents and how hard it was to swim.
Purpose: Identify wise choices during open water sport activities
Equipment: Sport pamphlets
Description:
- Have students develop a list of sports/activities that can be done in open water.
- Beside each activity, list an open water danger (e.g., tides, undertows, etc.).
- Have students identify or demonstrate the best way to prepare and stay safe for each open water sport/activity (e.g., wear PFD).
Purpose: Identifying necessary boating equipment required by law
Equipment: Boating equipment, other pieces of aquatic equipment
Description:
1. Organize students into 2 or 3 teams.
2. Opposite each team, 15 m away place a pile of equipment. Each pile must contain some required boating equipment.
3. Students swim to the equipment, pick up a piece of equipment required by law for boating, and swim back with it on their stomach
4. The relay concludes when one team brings back all the required boating equipment.
Todd Reade