Other sites of interest:
North Section, CIF Swimming
Introduction
The purpose of this pages is provide information for the competitive high school swimmer, and any other individual, coach, or team..
Subject: Physical Education
Topic: Swimming
Grade Level: 9 - 12
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Standards
Addressed
NATIONAL STANDARDS FOR ATHLETIC COACHES
There are no current California Physical Education Standards. The National Standards for Athletic Coaches will be used as a guide. The above standards are taken from NASPE. The National Association for Sports and Physical Education. www.aahperd.org/NASPE/publications-coachstandards.html#C11
Grades 9 - 12
Domain: Skills, Tactics and Strategies
Standard 30
Identify and apply specific competitive tactics and strategies appropriate for the age and skill levels involved.
Red Bluff Union High School, School
Wide Learning Goals:
Be a competent user of available
technology who:
*can identify and utilize the appropriate technology to solve problems.
*demonstrate literacy with various technological devices.
Instructional
Objectives
1. The swimmers will learn to evaluate their own strokes and gain a basic understanding of the relationship between stroke length and swimming efficiently.
2. The swimmers will learn the relationship between efficient stroke mechanics, energy used while swimming, and improved time in an event.
Student
Activities
Introductory
Activity
Read the article on stroke
length and speed at the following site. http://www.totalimmersion.net/articles/countstrokes.html
Enabling
Activity)
1. Swimming activities in the pool
to demonstrate and reinforce the new skills.
a. Swim 25 yard repeats. The swimmers count their strokes and
note their time. A third swimmer records the results. (Use
the chart on student activities page.)
b. Instruct the swimmers to vary the number of strokes taken and
their effort to help them "feel the difference" in stroke efficiency.
2. Repeat the above activity
at least once weekly to help the students understand the relationship between
the variables in swimming. Always chart the activity to let the swimmers
see the results in a factual concrete easy to read and understand format.
After the swimmers have charted their stroke rate and understand the relationship using the gained knowledge the swimmers will chart their races. They will compare the practice and meet results. They will then determine their best stroke length.
After the swimmers have completed the lesson they will visit other swimming sites to gain knowledge of the sites so they can be used as future reference.
Assessment
*Using a spreadsheet,
the swimmers will compare their individual stroke count from the pre-test,
to those of the post-test.
*What is the team average
stroke count? Increase/decrease?
*Based on the results,
choose whether to deliver supplemental
information, and whether to
re-test.
Results
Spreadsheet
Web
Resources & Supplementary Materials
Introductory Activity
The students will visit this site to be introduced to the concept of stroke
length.
Enabling Activity
Enabling activities will take
place in the pool.
Culminating Activity
The
students will visit this site. This site is the most complete listing
of swimming links. This site covers commercial sites, team sites,
search engines, indexes, and much more.
The
students will visit and explore this site.
Visit
the Total Immersion site and get a wealth of information about stroke technique,
turns, starts, race tactics, and more.
Red Bluff, CA 96080
Paul Trujillo ptrujill@rbuhsd.k12.ca.us
Last Revised: 5/24/2001