Lifesaving Society
Curriculum knowledge
PLANNING
ASSESSMENT
SWIMMER & ADULT
100

When you become a Swim For Life you will become part of this team.

What is the Lifesaving Society’s Bc Yukon branch

100

The order of the Preschool Levels

What is Preschool one to five  or Octopus, crab, orca, seal, narwhale

100
A plan for the entire set of lessons
What are Long Term Plans
100
How often you should update your worksheets
What is once a week after every lesson
100

The age a child can enter the Swimmer Program

What is 6 years old

200

The Lifesaving Society messaging that helps Canadians develop healthy, positive attitudes and stay safe in, on and around water.

What is Swimming and Water Smart Messaging

200

three skills that must be completed in sequence to complete swim to survive standard?

What are disorienting entry tread water for one minute 50 m swim 

200
A plan for each lesson in the set
What are daily lesson plans
200
How many times a swimmer must successfully perform each skill throughout the session in order to complete a level
What is three times
200

This Swimmer level  introduces continuous, rhythmic flutter kicks initiated from the hips; slight knee bed; feet relaxed in Front Crawl

What is swimmer 3

300

The values of the Canadian Lifesaving Society 

What are collaborative, innovative and ethical. Operate with fairness, respect, trust and integrity. Value diversity, flexibility and creativity. Seek inclusiveness, driven by the needs of our community. A dynamic organization that succeeds through volunteerism proactive leadership and the pursuit of excellence.

300

The level in swimmer where you have to glide on your front, back and side for 3 m

What is Swimmer one

300
The three different types of activities included in Long term Plans
What are New Learning, Review and Practice
300

Where you should always look to ensure that a skill is being assessed to the proper standards

What is the award guide

300

The distant Swim for level 9

What is swim 300 m in nine minutes or better

400

The mission of the Canadian Lifesaving Society 

What is to prevent grounding and reduce water related injury.


400

The distance of the back crawl in preschool 5

What is 5m

400
5 Important factors to consider in your daily lesson plans
What are Safety(formations), People (#, age) , Learning (styles, readiness), Teaching (activities, strategies), Content (
400

The type of assessment done on the first night of lessons

What is Screening from the level before

400

The adult and teen level for beginner swimmers.

What is Adult 1

500

What are the levels you can teach as a swim for life instructor

Parent and tot, Preschool, Swimmer, Adult Swimmer, Fitness Swimmer

500

The The distance for breaststroke in swimmer six

What is 50 m

500
It is important to plan to do this on the first night of lessons
What is screening
500

It is time to fill out report cards and one of your swimmers, who is repeating the level for the second time, has handed in their old report card that already has writing on it you must

What is get a comment sheet and staple it into the card.

500

What swimmer level introduces single arm recovery butterfly

What is Swimmer five