Radnor Township School District

Course Overview

Course Name Life Guarding

Course # 0671

General Information

Credits: 0.5

Weighted: N/A

Prerequisite: 9th & 10th Grade PE


Length: Full Year

Format: Meets on Cycle days

Grade: 11th & 12th

Course Description
Lifeguard training is offered to students during their junior and senior years. Students will be introduced to all phases of lifeguarding, including CPR/First Aid/AED training. Students must pass all practical and written requirements to receive their American Red Cross Lifeguard Certificate.
Enduring Understanings and Essential Questions
Enduring Understandings
· Rules are designed to keep us safe.
· All decisions have consequences.
·  Fit people engage in physical activity on a regular basis.
·  Fitness is a process not a product.
·  Behaving well is as important as playing well.
Essential Questions
·  What can I do to be physically active and why is it important?
·  How can I move effectively and efficiently?
·  Why is it important to be physically fit and how can I stay fit?
·  How do I interact with others during physical activity?
·  How will physical activity help me now and in the future?
Common Assessments:
·  Swim test – looking for comfort in the water while demonstrating freestyle and breaststroke
·  In addition to demonstrating the ability to dive for and retrieve a ten pound brick.
·  Written exams (A minimum of 80% score).
·  Hands on skills testing (rescue water skills, CPR/AED/First Aid/Breathing Emergancies.
Major Units of Study:
·  Passing the initial swim test:
A.)  Swimming 300 yards continuously, using these strokes in the following order: (100 yards freestyle using rhythmic breathing, 100 yards breaststroke, and 100 yards of either freestyle or breaststroke or a combination of both strokes.
B.)  Swimming 20 yards using freestyle or breaststroke, surface dive to a depth of 7-10 feet, retrieve a 10-pound brick, return to the surface and swim back to the starting point with the object, keeping the head above water at all times.
·  Lifesaving, CPR, and First Aid:
A.)  Students will learn how to identify and respond appropriately to an emergency, utilizing specific skills for the task.
Materials & Texts

·  Text: Lifeguarding by Stay Well

·  Video: Lifeguarding Today by American Red Cross

Equipment: Manikins, pocket masks, Bag Valve Masks (BVM), face shields, and rescue tubes.

Summer Assignment
N/A

Radnor Township School District

Course Curriculum

First Semester

Unit I: Responding to Emergencies – Breathing Emergencies

CPR/AED/First Aid

Common Core Standards and National and PA Academic Standards
·  Participates regularly with skill practice pertaining to unit.
·  Exhibi ts responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
·  Students will comprehend concepts related to lifeguarding.
·  Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance their knowledge of lifeguarding and related skills.
·  Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communications skills to be better equipped to lifeguard.
·  Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision making skills when lifeguarding and in life in general.
Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance their effectiveness as a lifeguard. Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors to be better able to fulfill the duties of a lifeguard.
·  16.2.12C- Use Communication skills to effectively interact with other.
·  10.4.12 B- Analyze the effects of regular participation in a self selected program of moderate to vigorous physical activities.
·  10.4.12 B- Analyze the effects of regular participation in a self selected program of moderate to vigorous physical activities.
Keystone Connections:
Student Objectives:
KNOWELDGE
Students will know…
·  The lifeguard pre-requisites
·  Characteristics of a professional lifeguard
·  How to implement the EAP (emergency action plan).
·  How to effectively respond to emergencies.
·  Understand what OSHA is
·  Will have an understanding of blood borne pathogens
·  How to evaluate a situation using the FIND model for decision making.
·  Understand the legal considerations of lifeguarding and how they apply when serving as a professional lifeguard.
·  The impact of weather when guarding at a facility and how to respond.
·  How to recognize when a victim is in jeopardy and how to evaluate their condition using the Primary Survey.
·  Understand how to do a secondary survey and respond appropriately.
·  Understand when a person is experiencing sudden illness.
·  How to effectively communicate with patrons
·  The importance of keeping records and reports.
SKILLS
Students will be able to…
·  Identify emergencies and respond appropriately.
·  Determine that there is a situation that needs to be addressed and respond accordingly.
·  Demonstrate how to deal with uncooperative patrons and violence.
·  Work in teams in preparing a safety check list at the pool site.
·  Demonstrate how to perform a safety check of a pool and its surroundings.
·  Act accordingly when there is impending storm and how to take proper precautions
·  Go through the proper steps when conducting a primary survey and respond accordingly,
based on the findings.
·  Perform rescue breathing on an Adult/Child/Infant.
·  Clear an obstructed airway for a conscious and unconscious adult/child and infant.
·  Perform CPR on an adult/child and infant.
·  Use an AED.
·  Treat sudden illness brought on by a variety of causes.
Assessments:
·  Written exams – minimum score of 80%
·  Hands on skills testing – showing confidence and knowledge in performing specific skills related to CPR/AED/First Aid.
Activities and Assignments
ACTIVITIES
·  Sizing up specific scenarios and determining appropriate action. Scenarios may pertain to:
1.  Weather conditions
2.  Inappropriate behavior in a pool environment
3.  Using the Primary Survey to determine a victims condition
·  Skill practice with manikins rehearsing:
1.  Rescue breathing for adult/child/infant.
2.  Obstructed airway for conscious and unconscious adult/child/infant.
3.  CPR for adult/child/infant.
4.  AED
5.  First aid – for example: dressing a wound, effective splinting of an injured body part, caring for sudden illness, etc.
Terminology
·  Cardiac Chain of Survival
·  CPR
·  Consent
·  Rescue Breathing
·  Sudden illness
·  Pocket mask
·  LOC (levels of consciousness)
·  BVM (bag valve mask)
·  AED (automated external defibrillator)
·  Defibrillation
·  Diabetes
·  Cardiac arrest
·  Cardiac distress
·  Respiratory arrest
·  Respiratory distress
·  Heat Stroke
·  Hypothermia
·  Hypoxia
·  Incident report
·  Anatomic splint
·  Soft splint
·  Hard splint
·  Angina pectoris
·  Anaphylactic shock
·  Asytole
·  Backboard
·  Bloodborne pathogens
·  Wounds – laceration, avulsion, puncture, abrasion
·  Closed wound
·  EAP (Emergency Action Plan)
·  OSHA – Occupational Safety and Health Administration
·  RID Factor
·  Seizure
·  Shock
·  Strain
·  Sprain
·  Stroke
·  Burns – first, second, third degree
·  Anatomical splint, soft splint, hard splint
·  V-fib and V-tach
·  Abandonment
·  Negligent
Materials & Texts
·  Lifeguarding video by Staywell
·  Lifeguarding text by Staywell
·  Pocket mask
·  Face shields
·  BVM
·  AED simulator
·  Manikins
·  TV/DVD player
Media, Technology, Web Resources
www.redcross.org

Second Semester

Unit II: Lifeguarding skills in the water (deep and shallow end)

Common Core Standards and PA Academic Standards
·  Participates regularly with skill practice pertaining to unit.
·  Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.
·  Students will comprehend concepts related to lifeguarding.
·  Students will demonstrate the ability to access valid information and products and services to enhance their knowledge of lifeguarding and related skills.
·  Students will demonstrate the ability to use interpersonal communications skills to be better equipped to lifeguard.
·  Students will demonstrate the ability to use decision making skills when lifeguarding and in life in general.
Students will demonstrate the ability to use goal-setting skills to enhance their effectiveness as a lifeguard. Students will demonstrate the ability to practice health-enhancing behaviors to
be better able to fulfill the duties of a lifeguard.
·  16.2.12C- Use Communication skills to effectively interact with other.
Keystone Connections:
Student Objectives:
KNOWELDGE
Students will know…
·  How to recognize when a victim is either in distress, active drowning, or passive drowning.
·  Know the difference between total coverage, back-up coverage and zone coverage.
·  The importance of patron surveillance
·  The difference between a distressed, passive, and active swimmer.
·  How to effectively scan a pool area.
·  The different type of guard stations.
·  The importance of lifeguard rotations.
·  Know what the RID factor is.
·  How to imitate the EAP (Emergency Action Plan).
·  The importance of an incident report.
·  The different approaches when rescuing a victim.
·  How to make the appropriate rescue, depending on the situation.
·  When a victim may have a head, neck or spinal injury.
·  How to effectively use the back board in shallow and deep water.
·  How that an active drowning victim can become submerged in less than 1 minute.
SKILLS
Students will be able to…
·  Perform an array of rescues, depending on the victim’s state.
·  Perform the different entries depending upon the situation.
1.  Compact jump
2.  Stride jump
3.  Slide in entry
·  Students will effectively demonstrate the skill of scanning a pool area.
·  Identify the co0nditions of swimmers when in need and respond accordingly.
·  Review specific designed scenarios and determine how the RID factor came into play.
·  Fill out an incident report.
·  Demonstrate the different approaches one can make when responding to a victim in the water.
·  To design a strategy for setting up guards stations depending on the design of pool.
·  Demonstrate effective scanning.
·  Perform effective boarding in the shallow and deep water.
Assessments:
PEAKS
Physical Education Rubric
4 / 3 / 2 / 1 / 0

P

/ Preparation / Fully Dressed
On Time
(Gym uniform and sneakers) / Fully Dressed
Late / Athletic Clothing
On Time / Street Clothes and Sneakers / No Sneakers
No Uniform

E

/ Effort / Exemplary
Consistently challenges self in an appropriate and safe manner. / Strong
Frequently seeks to challenge self in an appropriate and safe manner.. / Inconsistent
Sometimes seeks to challenge self in an appropriate and safe manner. / Weak
Lacks Motivation
Does little or nothing / Unacceptable
Does not participate

A

/ Attitude / Always respectful of the rights, property, and opinions of others / Usually respectful of the rights, property, and opinions of others. / Sometimes
respectful of the rights, property, and opinions of others. / Seldom
respectful of the rights, property, and opinions of others. / Shows disrespect for the rights, property or opinion of others.

K

/ Knowledge / Always demonstrates appropriate application of skills / Consistently demonstrates appropriate application of skills / Sometimes
demonstrates appropriate application of skills / Seldom
demonstrates appropriate application of skills / Rarely
demonstrates appropriate application of skills

S

/ Skills / Always demonstrates correct mechanics of skills / Consistently
demonstrates correct mechanics of skills / Sometimes
demonstrates correct mechanics of skills / Seldom
demonstrates correct mechanics of skills / Does not
demonstrates correct mechanics of skills
Activities and Assignments
Activities
·  Students will continue to maintain conditioning by swimming designated yardage before each class.
·  Students will practice the various rescue skills until they are mastered.
·  Roll Playing - Students will be assigned certain rolls, simulating real life guarding situations.
·  Sizing up specific scenarios and determining appropriate action. Scenarios may pertain to:
1.  Facilities check list activity.
2.  Responding to patrons who are acting inappropriately, using the FIND model.
ASSIGNMENTS
·  Reading assignments that correlate with activities in the pool
Terminology
·  EAP
·  Lifeguard team
·  Incident Report
·  Patron surveillance
·  Scanning
·  Area of responsibility
·  Back-up coverage
·  Zone Coverage
·  Total Coverage
·  Rescuer one
·  Rescuer two
·  Active and Passive drowning
·  Multiple victim rescue
·  Submerged
·  Submerged victim-deep water
·  Feet-first surface dive
·  Board removal
·  Walking assist
·  Front-and-back-carry
·  Distressed swimmer
·  Rescue board
·  Head splint
·  Head and chin support
·  Rescue tube
·  Stride jump, compact jump, and slide-in entry
·  Escapes - rear and front
·  Submerged victim rescue
·  Assists – simple, extension tube rescue from deck and in water
·  Multiple rescue
·  Head splint, and head chin support – shallow and deep water
Materials & Texts
ESSENTIAL
·  Rescue tubes
·  Backboard (2)
·  DVD – Lifeguarding by Staywell
Media, Technology, Web Resources
WWW.redcross.org