Safety In and Around Water

The lesson “Safety In and Around Water” is part 17 of a 35 part series on human development, the human body, health, and safety. This lesson teaches rules for staying safe in water, and stresses if someone is drowning, children should not to go in after the drowning person. This resource includes a lesson plan for the teacher on how to prepare beforehand, class-time content to facilitate learning, hands-on activities facilitating further learning, and a teacher assessment at the end. This lesson is designed for a group of children between the ages of 9 and 11, and is the seventeenth physical development lesson in the Core Curriculum, 9-11 years, Year Two.