Block 2: Proficiency

Working in small groups, students will record their performance on the following tasks:

1. For time: 100 meter swim (4 laps)
2. For time: 50 meter flutter kick with board
3. “SWOLF” Score (swim 50 meters; add number of seconds to number of strokes)—three attempts with full rest
4. SCUBA Test: tread water 5 min, swim 500 meters.  If unable to complete the task, students record number of minutes successfully treading water, and number of meters completed for swim.

 Monday

Assessment: 400 meter run

Tuesday/Wednesday

Block 3: Games and Relays

Working in teams, students will complete the following tasks:

1.  Spider Relay—students cross the width of the pool crawling under lane lines.  Students can make forward progress only while submerged, and must stop crawling to breathe.
2. Feet first relay—self explanatory
3. Dolphin relay—each team has a beach ball, and must push the ball across the pool using only noses.
4. Hidden bottle—two teams, one on each side of the pool.  Participants stand with their backs to the water.  The instructor tosses a water-filled clear unlabeled bottle into the pool.  On the instructor’s cue, participants jump in, retrieve the bottle and return it to their “home base.”  Play (for example) to best out of 5.
5. Fashion Victim Relay.  For each of two teams, submerged at the deep end, are color coded sets of clothing: socks, pants, t-shirt and long sleeve shirt.  Teams must retrieve one item at a time and use it to dress a teammate.  The “dressee” must have the item fully on before the next item can be retrieved.  The winning team is the first to be fully dressed.  Record times for inter-class competition.