Teaching and Learning Toolbox
This page includes Teacher guides and student learning tasks to support the implementation of aquatics education across the New Zealand Curriculum (2007). You can also download useful teaching resources for children from early childhood through to secondary school.
Teacher Guides
Teacher Guide Boat Safety Circuit
Teacher Guide Cold Water Immersion and Hypothermia
Teacher Guide Experiencing Moving Water
Teacher Guide Graphic Organisers Guide
Teacher Guide Guided Discovery and Water Safety
Teacher Guide Language of Tides Guide
Teacher Guide Language of Waves
Teacher Guide Lifejackets
Teacher Guide Rips
Teacher Guide Safety Planning
Teacher Guide Teaching Survival Strokes
Teacher Guide Water Safety Signage
Teachers Guide Alcohol, Drugs and Water Safety
Teacher Guide Water Safety at Home
Student Learning Tasks
Teaching Resources
Early Childhood
Fishing with Papa
Fishing with Papa is a water safety education teaching resource for early childhood featuring important water safety advice for both children and their caregivers.
Kei te hī ika māua ko Pāpā
He rauemi tēnei kia ako i te kaupapa wai ora mō ngā tamariki me ngā pakeke.
Float first resource – Under 5 year olds
Float first lesson plan and activities for children under 5.
Primary and Intermediate
Watersense – Junior Primary
WaterSense is a bilingual teaching and learning resource for junior primary focusing on four key messages for safe practices in aquatic environments.
Float first resource – Junior Primary
Float first lesson plan and activities for junior primary school children.
Float first resource – Senior Primary and Intermediate
Float first lesson plan and activities for senior primary and intermediate school children.
Secondary School
Wai Survival
WAI Survival is a water safety resource for secondary teachers structured to meet the requirements of the New Zealand Curriculum (2007), Health and Physical Education at levels 4 and 5.
It gives clear teaching ideas to develop water competence. Teaching ideas are provided to develop and link practical water safety and survival skills with critical thinking for safer aquatic participation in a range of aquatic environments to prepare students and teachers for the competencies needed to have people enjoy the water and stay safe.
Float first resource -Youth and Adults
Float first lesson plan and activities for secondary school students.
