"Swimming: learning the main strokes" Unidad Didáctica bilingüe

La Unidad Didáctica que a continuación voy a presentar está formulada y planificada para 2º de bachillerato, incluida en la programación de la asignatura "Ciencias para la Actividad Física", la cuál se imparte dentro del programa bilingüe de mi centro, el IES Saavedra Fajardo (Murcia - España).

Dentro de dos cursos (en el curso 2016-2017), tal y como la LOMCE indica, no se podrá hacer realidad para 2º de bachillerato puesto que la optativa que cubre la educación del cuerpo y el movimiento no se podrá cursar, sin embargo considero que podría tener cabida en la programación de 1º de bachillerato.

Introduction

Learning to swim is a life skill that can come in very useful throughout one’s life. Swimming is not only a great way to keep fit, it is also a requirement for various professions (i.e. the emergency services). Along with being a life saving skill swimming can make a whole range of water sports accessible, such as surfing, kayaking or water polo.

Learning to swim is also an important preventative measure towards accidental drowning. Drowning is one of the highest causes of accidental death in children worldwide. If children are taught the skills that will ensure their safety in and around the water, we can greatly reduce the likelihood of these accidents.

The 3 most popular swimming strokes are Front Crawl, Breast Stroke and Back Stroke. When learning to swim it is important to practice as often as possible. This will build up your confidence in the water. Learning to swim can become fun by participating in swimming lessons, it is also much easier to learn with the aid of a qualified instructor. Swimming lessons are available in most communities through private gymnasiums and programs such as the Cruz Roja Española, Federación de Natación de la Región de Murcia, public schools, and sports clubs.

Learning outcomes

To know main rules of swimming as sport.  
Improve pupils’ cardiovascular endurance  
To learn skills related with front crawl, backstroke and breaststroke. Breathing,  floating, diving and pulling/pushing.  
To understand the health benefits when training in a swimming pool.
To use swimming as a good form of leisure and entertainment

Subject content

Swimming rules.  
Front Crawl: body position, breathing, arms coordination and leg kicking.  
Back Crawl: body position, arms coordination and leg kicking.  
Breast Stroke: Arm/leg coordination, arm stroke, leg stroke and body position.  
Fitness and swimming: health benefits.

Tasks and activities throughout the didactic unit

Swimming tasks: technique, games, floatation, diving, etc.
Powerpoint presentation.
Wiki project: colaborative work in which students must search for images showing different swimming techniques, meanwhile another student group match these images with technical concepts
Peer assessment: giving feedbacks to their own classmates. Using “Ubersense app” for recording and analysing swimming movements.
Quizlet flashcards: learning swimming vocabulary through online Swimming Set of flashcards.
Swimming notes analysis with Native Language Assistant.
Word clouds: student will made word clouds with different concepts and vocabulary they will learn (Wordle)
Socrative: concept assessment after theoretical explanation using smartphones.

Lessons

1st LESSON

In the 1st lesson we can watch some videos from youtube:

Front crawl videos

Backstroke videos

Also, in the 1st lesson all students should know the activities and tasks they have to carry out: Wiki project (deadline will be the last swimming lesson), word clouds with swimming main concepts, flashcards through Quizlet and quizzes through Socrative when returning to school (5 minutes walking using sidewalk). Students will be noticed that English native assistant teacher will help to them to solve vocabulary doubts from swimming notes.

2nd LESSON