Learn to Swim 4

•  Prerequisites:
  • Successful demonstration of Learn to Swim 3.
     
• Purpose:
  • Improve participants' proficiency in performing the swimming strokes that were introduced in level 3.
     
• Learning Objectives:
  • Entry and exit
  • Breath control
  • Submerging
  • Buoyancy
  • Changing direction and position while swimming
  • Treading
  • Swimming on side
  • Swimming on front and back
  • Water safety

• Exit Skills Assessments:
  • Perform a feetfirst entry into deep water, swim front crawl for 25 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim elementary backstroke for 25 yards. 
  • Swim breaststroke for 15 yards, change direction and position as necessary and swim back crawl for 15 yards.
  • Submerge and swim a distance of three to five body lengths underwater without hyperventilating, return to the surface, then exit the water. 

Learn to Swim 5

•  Prerequisites:
  • Successful demonstration of Learn to Swim 4.
• Purpose:
  • Help participants refine their performance of all six swimming strokes.
• Learning Objectives:
  • Water entry and exit
  • Breath control
  • Submerging
  • Buoyancy
  • Changing direction and position while swimming
  • Treading
  • Swimming on side
  • Swimming on front and back
  • Water safety
• Exit Skills Assessments:

  Jump into deep water, resurface and swim front crawl for 50 yards, then swim elementary backstroke for 50 yards using appropriate and efficient turning styles throughout. 

  Swim breaststroke for 25 yards, change direction of travel as necessary and then swim back crawl for 25 yards using appropriate and efficient turning styles throughout. 

Learn to Swim 6

•  Prerequisites:
  • Successful demonstration of Learn to Swim 5.
• Purpose:
  • Refine strokes so particpants swim them with greater efficiency and effectiveness over long distances.
  • Teach participants how to prevent aquatic emergencies in various aquatic environments and to introduce and practice self-rescue techniques. 
• Learning Objectives:
  • Water entry and exit
  • Breath control
  • Submerging
  • Buoyancy
  • Changing direction and position while swimming
  • Treading
  • Swimming on side
  • Swimming on front and back
  • Water safety

• Exit Skills Assessments:

  Swim 500 yards continuously using any 3 strokes, swimming at least 50 yards of each stroke.

  Jump into deep water, perform a survival float for 5 minutes, roll onto back and perform a back float for 5 minutes.

  Perform a feetfirst surface dive, retrieve an object from the bottom of the pool at a depth of 7 to 10 feet, return to surface and return to starting point.