Focus: Students will identify water safety procedures. Goal: To understand ways to be safe around water. Standards: NHES: #2 Safe and healthy environment Warm-up: Interview your peers and record answer in notebook. What ways are you safe while swimming or around water activities? Who taught you how to swim? How and where were you taught to swim.

Notes: 1. Knowing some basic water rescue procedures protects swimmers and boaters during water activities. 2. Someone who is caught in a strong current while swimming can swim slowly out of the current by swimming across it. 3. Swimmers should never swim against a current. 4. If a boater is knocked overboard, rescuers should look for rope, life vest or anything that floats. 5. A single rescuer shouldn’t attempt rescue on their own, as they could be pulled under by the upset victim. 6. If you see someone unconscious in the water, check area to see if it is safe for you to rescue. Check victim and call for help. a. If area is safe, remove victim from water. b. Check if they are breathing and have a heart beat. c. If no heart beat, start CPR.

Group Activity – Water Safety Scenario: Please explain the correct rescue process. How could unintentional injury have been prevented? *Twelve-year-old Tod and his best friend, Raul, are spending the weekend with their families at the lake. They have both been riding on the rented jet ski for almost four hours. They thought their life jackets were spoiling their suntans, so they discarded those hours ago. They are almost late to return the jet ski, and they are speeding across the lake, passing boats and jumping wakes, when they hit a log lying just on the surface of the water. Both boys are flung from the jet ski. Tod has pain in his right arm and shoulder. He thinks he’s going to die from the pain! Then he sees Raul, who cannot swim, thrashing in the water a few yards away. Tod starts to swim slowly toward his friend. No boats are nearby.