Water Safety Curriculum for Kids (original) (raw)
Fun in the Water
Water has been a persistent killer of children for as long as children have been around, and drowning continues to take the lives of around 1000 children each year. Another 5000 or so will drown yet survive, but many suffer serious brain and/or organ damage as a result. You can help us change these numbers by implementing a water safety curriculum in your classroom.
These water safety curriculum and lesson plan resources will teach kids how to recognize the signs of drowning (so that they can alert an adult if someone is in trouble), and also teach them how to keep from getting into dangerous situations themselves.
Water Safety Curriculum & Lesson Plan Resources
- Swim lessons save lives! If you have an opportunity to enroll in swim lessons or support such a program at your school or child care center, please do so.
Additional Water Safety Resources for Teachers
Free water safety eBooks & lessons for kids:
Safe Swimming Rules A fun eBook teaching kids simple swim safety rules to help them stay safe while swimming. Recommended for kids ages five and over.
This eBook is perfect for toddlers and preschoolers. It teaches young children the primary ways that little kids drown.
Signs of Drowning Teach kids how to recognize the signs of drowning with this free water safety lesson. They will also learn what to do if someone is in trouble in the water.
Decorating your class for your water safety curriculum To set the mood for you water safety curriculum theme, consider the following classroom decoration ideas:
- Make a wave pattern out of blue butcher paper or contact paper and run it around the bottom of your walls like trim so that it looks like your class is enveloped in a lake or pool.
- Collect old swim suits and tack them to your walls.
- Hang one of those boat rescue doughnuts on your wall.
- Collect inflatable pool floaties and hang them from the ceiling.
Water safety curriculum theme words Use the following words/terms for spelling and vocabulary practice as part of your water safety curriculum theme:
- Bathe
- Breathe
- Chlorine
- Current
- Depth
- Dive
- Drain
- Drown
- Float
- Floatie
- Gulp
- Help
- Kick
- Lake
- Life guard
- Life jacket
- Log
- Lung
- Paddle
- Pond
- Pool
- Puddle
- Rip current
- River
- Rock
- Safe/safety
- Sand
- Scuba
- Stream
- Stroke
- Swim
- Tide
- Tread (as in tread water)
- Tsunami
- Tub
- Water
- Wave
Teaching kids about water safety For more extensive information on water safety to use for you water safety curriculum, see our pages on water safety for kids in our child safety area.