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:

  1. 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.
  2. Have students swim through the weed garden.
  3. Have students swim through the weeds with a lot of thrashing and then very smoothly and slowly.

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