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Course 263 · Life course 85

Make Safer Choices In and Around Water

A water-safety scenario packet with supervision responsibilities, life-jacket questions, environmental hazards, safe emergency help and a supervised-learning route. Use six supplied cases to build and check the project.

Before you start

Paper or a free text document is sufficient. All core case facts are supplied.

Personal Safety & Emergency Basics See everything you’ll need

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What you’ll leave with

A water-safety scenario packet with supervision responsibilities, life-jacket questions, environmental hazards, safe emergency help and a supervised-learning route.

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Your project

Start with the practice files. Build your project one lesson at a time.

Practice files are free without an account. Sign in to save your project record in My Proof: a description, checklist, and optional work link. Keep the original files in your own app or notebook; saving a project record does not upload them.

  1. Get your materialsDownload practice filesSupplied practice cases, a blank working record, complete lesson instructions, and annotated worked examples.
  2. Make your projectView the project checklist Work in your own notebook, document, or software. Use the supplied practice examples when you prefer.
  3. Keep a private recordSave a project record Sign in to save a description and checklist, then return to update them.
Course handbook

Know the route before you begin.

Here’s what you’ll need and what you’ll make. You can return to this guide during any lesson.

Who this is for

Learners aged 14+ practicing everyday decisions with fictional information; adults may use the same cases.

Prepare before lesson one
  • Paper or a free text document is sufficient. All core case facts are supplied.
  • Use fictional names and records; do not enter personal health, identity or another person’s information.
  • Suggested earlier course: Personal Safety & Emergency Basics
Your final project

Finish with proof you can use.

A water-safety scenario packet with supervision responsibilities, life-jacket questions, environmental hazards, safe emergency help and a supervised-learning route.

Save a project record in My Proof
See project checklist and review criteria

Keep your working files in your own notebook or software. Save a private description, checklist, and work link in My Proof.

What to include

  • Confidence/competence distinction.
  • Named supervision and barrier review.
  • Environment/warning comparison.
  • Life-jacket label screen and actual-fit questions.
  • Safe urgent-help route and qualified-learning inquiry.

Review and revise

Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.

  • Plan separates confidence from qualified instruction and demonstrated competence.
  • Supervision review identifies a named watcher, confirmed handoff and effective barrier conditions.
  • Environment and jacket screen checks warnings, weight/activity label and condition without claiming actual fit.
  • Urgent-help and learning inquiries avoid unsupervised entry and preserve unresolved adapted-lesson access.
Three ideas to help you along the way
Three useful ideas

The rules behind the steps.

01

Use several protection layers

Supervision, barriers and suitable equipment complement each other.

02

Respect the environment

Confidence does not erase currents, weather or closures.

03

Avoid a second casualty

Seek trained help without hazardous untrained entry.

What do these words mean?
Key words

Key terms worth knowing.

Competence
Demonstrated relevant ability under an appropriate qualified assessment.
Water watcher
A responsible adult assigned close constant attention.
Protection layer
A measure such as supervision or a barrier used alongside other measures.
Approved life jacket
A correctly labeled safety device requiring suitable type, size, condition and actual fit.
Qualified instruction
Appropriate supervised teaching and assessment of physical skills.
Your route

6 lessons.
One useful project.

Work in order the first time. Each lesson makes something the next lesson can use.

  1. 1
    Up next

    Separate water confidence from competence

    Separate confidence, learning and demonstrated water competence.

  2. 2
    6 min

    Check supervision and barriers

    Assign responsible supervision and identify missing barriers.

  3. 3
    6 min

    Compare pool and open-water hazards

    Compare pool and open-water hazards from supplied conditions.

  4. 4
    6 min

    Select questions for a fitted approved life jacket

    Screen life-jacket labels and condition without certifying actual fit.

  5. 5
    6 min

    Choose safe help without an untrained rescue

    Choose urgent help without an untrained in-water rescue.

  6. 6
    8 min

    Plan qualified swimming instruction

    Build a qualified swimming-learning inquiry and preserve current limitations.

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ZIP · practice files

Make Safer Choices In and Around Water practice files

Supplied practice cases, a blank working record, complete lesson instructions, and annotated worked examples.

Text worksheet

Your course project worksheet

A downloadable text worksheet with each lesson’s working output, space for your answers, and the shared final-project checklist. Save your own copy.

Source transparency

Sources and further study.

Explore the references behind the lessons and take your learning further. Source notes explain access and reuse.

CDC: Preventing drowning
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Read close supervision, barriers, natural-water hazards and formal learning guidance.

Access: Official page content was retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Video playback, outside forms and personal services were not tested.

Reuse: Original fictional cases and assessments with linked factual references. Source exercises, photographs and diagrams are not copied.

American Red Cross: Water safety
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Read water competency, trained help and reach/throw-not-go information. No rescue technique is taught.

Access: Official page content was retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Video playback, outside forms and personal services were not tested.

Reuse: Original fictional cases and assessments with linked factual references. Source exercises, photographs and diagrams are not copied.

American Red Cross: Life jacket safety
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Read approval, type, weight/size and strap/condition checks; no physical product fit was tested.

Access: Official page content was retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Video playback, outside forms and personal services were not tested.

Reuse: Original fictional cases and assessments with linked factual references. Source exercises, photographs and diagrams are not copied.

American Red Cross: Swimming safety
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Read supervised swimming and appropriate learning safety context; outside course enrollment not performed.

Access: Official page content was retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Video playback, outside forms and personal services were not tested.

Reuse: Original fictional cases and assessments with linked factual references. Source exercises, photographs and diagrams are not copied.

Ready when you are

Start with the first useful move.

You’ll always know what to do, what to make, and where to go next.

Start lesson one