A PowerPoint presentation designed for students to learn to swim without the help of an instructor.

1. Learn to Swim
Educational
Learn To Swim
Approach
Instruction
Learning
Outcomes
ExitReferencesAbout

2. Learning to swim
This OER aims at providing students with basic swimming knowledge, which implemented and
practiced will result in swimming a basic freestyle stroke.
This is accomplished by providing the necessary basic theoretical and practical information required
to learn to swim.
The constructivist learning theory along with the self-regulated learning theory will be incorporated to
promote the learning process.
In the constructivist learning theory students will have to take the information provided and construct
their own meaning to it in order to learn to swim.
Self-regulated learning will also be incorporated because the students will be in charge of their own
learning.
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3. Learning Outcomes
This OER aims at providing students with basic swimming knowledge, which implemented and
practiced will result in swimming a basic freestyle stroke.
After working through the OER the student should be able to:
 Be comfortable in the water
 Blow bubbles
 Float
 Push and glide
 Push, glide and kick
 Push, glide, kick and pull
 Swim a basic freestyle Home

4. Instruction
The skills explained will build a swimming stroke systematically.
Practice and get comfortable with each skill before moving on to the next skill.
The student needs to take the knowledge of each skill and practically construct their own
meaning to it.
 Practising the skill in the water will result in the students constructing their own way of performing the skill.
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5. Educational Learn to Swim Approach
1. Get comfortable in the water
2. Float
3. Push and Glide
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6. 1. Get comfortable in the water
Get into the water slowly.
Move around in the water.
While standing bend your legs to submerge your upper body.
While kneeling down in the pool, submerge your whole body.
While submerged open your eyes under the water.
Jump around in the pool.
Submerge your whole body and blow bubbles through your nose.
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7. 2. Float
Fill your lungs with air until no more air can be inhaled.
Lie down on your stomach in a starfish position.
Keep your head down looking at the bottom of the pool.
Focus on pushing your chest down while keeping your hips up.
Keep on floating for as long as possible.
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8. 3. Push and Glide
Extend your arms above your head, covering your ears with your biceps and keeping your elbows
straight.
Full your lungs with air.
Stand next to the side of the pool, bend over forward and kick away from the pool, straighten your
legs and glide (like an arrow).
When this can be done comfortably add a flutter kick during the glide.
Then add the freestyle pull.
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9. References
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• Cesari, J. et al., 2000. Learn to swim - Course Theory Manual. 2nd ed. Victoria: AUSTSWIM Inc.
• Leonard, J. & Maglischo, E., 2004. Stroke School. 5th ed. Fort Lauderdale: The American Coaches
Association.
• Nessel, E., 2008. Swim to win. 1st ed. New York: Sterling Publishing.
• Denton, D. . W., 2012. Enhancing Instruction through Constructivism, CooperativeLearning, and Cloud
Computing. TechTrends, 56(4), pp. 34 - 41.
• Richardson, V., 1997. Constructivist teaching and teacher education: Theory and practice. In:
Constructivist teacher education: Building a world of new understandings. London: Falmer, pp. 3-14.
• Ford N 1981 Recent approaches to the study and teaching of effective learning in higher education.
Review of Educational Research, 51(3): 345-377.