Part 2:  Life Saving Techniques

Goals:

1. For the students to understand the importance of life-saving techniques.
2. For the students to gain further information and knowledge on life-saving techniques through library research.
3. For the students to demonstrate at least a portion of a life-saving technique.

1. Library resources
2. The teacher will want to have background information on life-saving techniques

Procedures:

1.  The teacher will introduce the lesson on life-saving techniques by providing examples and answering questions.
- The examples can range anywhere from shooting a flare gun to splinting a broken leg,
or from building a wall of branches for protection to conserving body heat.
2.  The teacher will instruct groups to do library research on a life-saving technique that
interests them or they would like to learn more about.
- This will add the interest factor into the lesson.
3.  The groups will demonstrate the life-saving technique they researched, or at least a portion of it depending on its complexity.
- The teacher may also want to ask the students why certain techniques are used in certain situations.

1.  Importance of life-saving techniques.  (Criteria for success = Students participate in
classroom discussion).
2.  Library research on life-saving techniques.  (Criteria for success = Groups have taken
1 to 2 pages of notes on a particular life-saving technique).
- The amount of pages will vary depending on the complexity of the technique.
3.  Demonstration of life-saving technique.  (Criteria for success = Groups have properly demonstrated their particular life-saving technique, and can explain the procedures to the
rest of the class).

1. Acting out life-saving techniques to other classrooms outside of their own.
2. Create a "choose your own" story where the reader has to make the proper choices to save the character/characters lives.

1. Language Arts - The students will read, research, and write about lifesaving techniques using library resources.
2. History - The students will research the history of life-saving techniques.

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Survival developed by David Didier, Justin Brandt, Travis Glandt, and Steve Raethz for the St. Norbert College Ocean Voyagers Program