Cold Water Safety and Survival: Surviving Outdoor Adventures, Volume 2, Grades 3-12
- Author: Marian Allen et al.
- Pub. no.: SG-ED-37
- Year: 2002
- No. pages: 342
- Price: $30.00 US
- ISBN: 1-56612-074-8
book contents (PDF format)
Description
Part of the four-volume Surviving Outdoor Adventures series, this book is a curriculum for training young people to be safe in the outdoors and near cold water. Surviving Outdoor Adventures provides all the materials needed to give K-12 kids lifelong good habits in outdoor safety. The materials can be used to teach one lesson, a semester, or a yearlong program.
Included are units on Hypothermia, PFDs, and Cold Water Survival.
- Written by Alaska Marine Safety Education Association staff in cooperation with educators from Alaska and nationwide
- Presents in-depth background for teachers
- Complete curriculum includes worksheets, handouts, stories, and templates
- Based on Alaska content standards
- Shrinkwrapped looseleaf pages suitable for 3-ring binder
- Each book comes with a free CD containing a PDF of that volume
We help Alaska's students meet state content standards! The content standards addressed by each lesson and activity are clearly identified in the text. When you teach from these curriculum guides, you know right away which standards you are meeting.
Alaska Marine Safety Education Association provides continuing assistance for outdoor safety teachers:
- Books, videos, and teaching kits are available for loan.
- Participants in AMSEA teacher workshops can borrow PFDs, immersion suits, and other safety gear.
Awards
- The Surviving Outdoor Adventures set of four books won the Blue Ribbon Award in the curriculum and educational materials category in the 2003 biennial Sea Grant Week publications competition.
