Other
Www.lifeguardskils.co.uk
This site contains information about performing duties as a lifeguard. It has training tips, data, and a video.
Other
Live and Learn: Swimming Pool Safety
Find a comprehensive list of things that can be done around household pools to prevent injuries and accidents.
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American Swimming Coaches Association
Check out articles, upcoming clinics, includes an archive section and membership details.
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: Swimming
This resource provides information about how to swim safely, and maintain water safety all the time.
Other
Renens Natation
This website gives information about the swimming club (results, pictures, trainers, etc.).
Read Works
Read Works: A Duck Out of Water
[Free Registration/Login Required] A literary text that asks the reader to make predictions about a girl who is invited to a new friend's birthday party. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
Read Works
Read Works: Take the Plunge
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the positive effects of swimming. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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.
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.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Gertrude Ederle, First Woman to Swim the English Channel
This resource provides information about Gertrude Ederle.
International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee: Swimming
Colorful animations show the different types of strokes swimmers do in competitions, like the Summer Olympics. Learn about the length of the swimming pool, how swimmers make turns, what swimmers wear while competing, and more.
International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee: Artistic Swimming
Watch and learn about the sport called artistic swimming. See positions done while swimmers are on the surface of the water and while submerged. Colorful drawings show you positions like the "crane," the "fishtail," the "horseman," the...
International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee: Triathlon
This presentation on the events that are part of the Summer Olympics triathlon: swimming, biking, and running.
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: 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.
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.
Library of Congress
Loc: Teachers: Recreation Yesterday and Today
Primary texts from the 1920s and 1930s launch an exploration of entertainment and recreation popular during that time in America's history. Students will research rural and nationwide experiences from this time and, in turn, make...
Other
International Swimming Hall of Fame
This site is dedicated to aquatic athletes who have achieved greatness in the field of swimming, diving, water polo and sychronised swimming. It contains a video and photo archive, plus recent news and biography of Hall of Famers.
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Official Fina Website
The official site of FINA, the international governing body for swimming, diving, synchronized swimming and water polo.
PE Central
Pe Central: Swimming Survivor Challenge Iv
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...
PE Central
Pe Central: Swimming Survivor Challenge I
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...
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...
Ducksters
Ducksters: Michael Phelps: Olympic Swimmer
Learn about Michael Phelps incredible Olympic swimming records.