Environments - LIFEGUARD / SURF LIFESAVER
Between the Flags
Surf
Life Saving Queensland - Games
Swimmers
in Trouble!
Bondi
Rescue - Fitness all
year?
Investigate
the Surf Boat Rowing within Surf Life Saving: For those living by the coast!
Between
the Flags
(developed by National Museum of Australia in 2007 and then archived)
Local copy - PDF (20pages)
Primary
Middle
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Critical & Creative Thinking
Australian
Curriculum General Capability: Literacy
Cooperative
Learning Activity
Teacher
These activities have been developed for students in Years 4 - 10 covering HPE, SOSE/HSIE, Arts, Civics & Citizenship, Thinking Processes and Communication.
Local copy - PDF (20pages)
This PDF has a commentary followed by well thought out activities (5 - 6, 7) for each section. Well worth a look - Frances Moore
Here is the full overview:
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A. Rips, Rescues, Relaxation & Riots: Australian Beach Culture Activities 1. Rockin' in the swells - 'surf music' bands 2. Australian beach idol 3. Read it in the Gazette 4. Keeping visitors safe 5. The art of beach-going |
B.
Samurais of the Surf: Being a Surf Lifesaver Activities 1. A day in the life of a surf lifesaver 2. Surf lifesavers: a total makeover 3. Initiation to Australian beaches 4. Recruiting surf lifesavers: We want you! 5. Flotsam and jetsam: An installation of the beach 6. Profiling surf lifesavers 7. Harmony project for Australia's beaches |
| C.
Winning against the wind and waves: The Sport of Surf Lifesaving Activities 1. Sport and fitness 2. Beach hazards 3. Images of the beach 4. Sport and nutrition 5. Sport in Society 6. Women in Sport |
D. A
wave of ideas: The Development of Surf Lifesaving Technology Activities 1. Technology timeline 2. The breath of life 3. Plucked from the breakers 4. Walter's inventions under scrutiny 5. Inflatable muscles |
| E.
Going Global: Exporting Australian Surf Lifesaving Activities 1. International Rescue 2. Heroes at home and abroad 3. Community consciousness 4. Laughing in the face of danger 5. Coastal Research 6. Surf lifesaving goes global |
F.
Bronzed Aussie Gods: Surf Lifesavers Activities 1. Calling all curators! 2. Creating an icon: Surf lifesavers as portrayed in film 3. The surf lifesaving initiative 4. Body mapping 5. Journals of a surf lifesaver 6. Beach textures 7. An Australian icon - a light-hearted look 8. Read all about it! 9. Sharing the sand |
Surf
Life Saving Queensland - Games
Primary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
Teacher
Read through the following local copy of the Surf Life
Saving Queensland's Game Manual. It was produced in 2011 but has great games
for students to play. There are land-based and water-based games in this
manual. The manual is 58 pages long.
1. Your teacher will decide which games you are going to play from the Surf Life Saving Queensland's Games Manual. There are land-based and water-based games in this manual.
2. You (and a group of 3 others) are to play one land-based and one water-based game from this Games Manual to see if they are fun!
3. Video your group playing of the game and the reactions of the group. Which was the best game?
Middle 
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Literacy
1. Each year, lifeguards rescue
swimmers in trouble. Read the following news items:
4 January 2023 SMH |
11 January 2023 |
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2. You are to create a new campaign around Beach Safety and the Lifeguard. It should emphasise that Lifeguards supervise swimmers to prevent accidents and drownings; and, first aid is one of the main dutes of Lifeguards.
3. Investigate the following successful and well regarded campaigns:
Slip, Slop, Slap - 1980!!! - The
Original Sid the Seagull Video
https://youtu.be/b7nocIenCYg
Life. Be in it! 1985
Life Be In It - Walking
https://youtu.be/YsLZGv-JfdI
Come On Aussie, Come On!
(MOJO Classics) "C'mon Aussie
C'mon" Aust. Cricket TV Ad Original 1979
https://youtu.be/2uBjJAV3CMk
4. Maybe a re-think?
You are to read the following article from
The Conversation 16 January 2025
What problems did this article bring up? Eg. Mostly men drowned; no real knowledge about the flags; to give you some examples.
How will you fix this?
5. Use the previous ads as inspiration, the new research in 2025 and make up a song or used a current one with new words.
6. Get the students in your group to video your song and any actions to the song and put together using Stupeflix to create your campaign.
Bondi
Rescue - Fitness all
year?
Primary
Middle Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
1. To make Bondi Rescue program more successful [finished in 2024], the producers would like you to come up with a competition idea!
2. Review the Coolangatta Gold and the different Ironman series.
3. Work out a strategy that will keep the Bondi Rescue team fit during the winter months and submit it to Surf Life Saving
Investigate
the Surf Boat Rowing within Surf Life Saving: For those living by the coast!
Primary
Middle
Secondary
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Personal and social capability
Australian
Curriculum General Capability:
Numeracy
1. You are to go to the local Surf Life Saving Club on local beaches near you. [More than one if possible].
2. You are to interview the Lifeguards about their roles and activities:
- the number of Lifeguards employed;
- the number who are volunteers;
- their shifts;
- the time spent on each activity - first aid; watching and supervising the beach; training; physical fitness; using the boat or jet ski;
- competitions attended.
3. Record the information using an iphone or ipad.
4. Investigate the Surf Boat Rowing Sport at your local club.
- What are the surf patrol hour requirements?
- what is the local surf clubs/Bronze Medallion Course?
- Interview a surf boat rower and find out
- their fitness level and how they maintain this level
- the number of times they have had to use the boat to rescue people - what were the circumstances?
- the times they have to achieve from call out to getting into the boat
- any competitions they have participated in
- types of events in these competitions
- who were the winners of the events and what are their records
5. Record these interviews and make a video, using Stupeflix to show to your class at school.
