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TIP: Teach all the angles between vertical and horizontal.

Water Familiarisation

Tip:  Have fun while teaching all the angles between vertical and horizontal.

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TIP: How get students to put their eyes in

Water Familiarisation

Tip:  Hokey Pokey is my favourite way to get students to put their eyes in the water.

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TIP: How do we roll?

Water Familiarisation

Tip:  Be specific with how you word rolling.  Offer support and let the students learn how to control being unbalanced.

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TIP: Teach how to recover to standing

Water Familiarisation

Tip:  Be specific when you teach a recovery to standing.

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TIP: Teach Land Based Skills

Water Familiarisation

Tip: Students Need to relearn land based skills in the water

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TIP: PFDs & Boats

Safety Activities

Tip:  Teach children climbing in and out of boats with PFDs but also tip them out.

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TIP: Use River Rocks

Safety Activities

Tip:  Use River Rocks to create a new experience

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TIP: How to Make a Seaweed Mat

Safety Acitivities

Tip:  Make a seaweed mat for a great sensory experience

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TIPS: Stingers Activity

Safety Activities

Tip:  Use spikey balls as stingers and get parents doing first aid.

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TIP: Teaching Waves

Safety Activities

Tip:  Harnessing what we have (mats and our ability to make turbulence) to give experiences with waves can be so much fun.

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