Aquatic Games for Children

with Lori Smith,
2001 Iowa Elementary PE Teacher of the Year!

Smith shares a wide variety of swimming pool activities and games that teach both swimming and manipulative skills. All children in your class can participate in these games, which use a variety of equipment such as beach balls, diving rings and discs, a diving brick, hula hoops, balls (for team games), and kick boards. You will also benefit by watching Smith's creative teaching methodology that motivates her students to work together to accomplish a team goal, while developing the desired swim skill instruction. Smith outlines each activity including the objectives, safety rules, equipment needed and complete playing instructions followed by demonstrations of her students engaged in each of these fun aquatic game challenges. Games add fun and excitement to an aquatics curriculum while providing innovative ways to get kids playing in the pool!

38 minutes. 2002. ISBN 1-56404-910-8.