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Boating Safety Classroom Videos & Lesson Activities

By now you know that reading information on boating safety can help you learn about it, right? You also learned that watching the right kind of boating safety videos help you learn and retain that knowledge. But research shows that to reshape someone’s safety behavior usually requires two more key elements; 1) making them a stakeholder in outcomes, 2) having them interact with their peers in those behaviors. And both of those things require something called “critical thinking”.

Although that sounds like a tall educational order, it can be accomplished with a combination of using an educational video with a peer-driven interactive lesson activity. And that’s exactly what you’ll find below. These classroom video-lesson activity combos are designed for Middle School and High School education with actual correlations to Common Core and Next Generation Science Standards so they are “teacher ready”, and unlike a lot of packaged lessons, they’re totally free. And because of their educational quality, many are used by PBS LearningMedia and Stride Learning; two of the nation’s top online education providers.

So, pump some life into your classroom learning while helping save lives by having your teacher download and use these vetted educational resources on boating safety.

Boating Safety Savvy

Family Boating Safety

More Than Just Life Jackets

Water Safety Best Practices

Coast Guard Boat Safety Check

Advanced Boating Safety Technology

Choose Your Own Canoe Adventure

Water Fun Starts With Safety

Do You Have What It Takes to Operate a Vessel?

Gearing Up For Your Boating Adventure

Protecting Our Aquatic Ecosystems While Boating

How Transportation Has Impacted Our Waterways

How To Use A Compass

S.T.E.M. Lessons

What? You have one of those persnickety teachers that don’t want fun-on-the-water lessons in their classroom and only insist on STEM (Science-Technology-Engineering-Math) related lessons? Well then strap on your PFDs because here’s an exclusive collection of feature videos, classroom videos and related lessons that can float the STEM boat in your classroom.

Before exploring these STEM videos with lessons below, fire up your boating safety brain with this hilarious feature video and test your RBSIQ (recreational boating safety IQ) against this wacky trio of game show contestants. Yes, learning about boating safety can be this much fun!

Plus, here’s a STEM primer video, Newton Goes Boating, that has a boatload of science, technology, engineering and math that decodes boating safety physics and Newton’s Laws of Motion. It even includes lessons from Archimedes of Syracuse (280 to c. 220 BCE) who was an ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, and inventor… of buoyancy!

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Science Classroom Video

Explore the science of how early and present-day explorers navigate using the earth’s magnetic fields and the mathematical deviation between true or geographic north.

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Technology Classroom Video

Discover the latest in advanced boating safety technology and how to use it.

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Engineering Classroom Video

Decode the Engineering of how your PFD uses Archimedes principle of buoyancy

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Math Classroom Video

Crucial lessons to calculating life-saving ROIs (return on investment) in the lesson below.

For many learners, reading text on websites falls short of making lasting impressions. That’s why most educational outlets also use engaging videos. To discover over 250 boating safety tips, rules, guidelines, and more, begin watching the feature videos on this site and explore some of the other prominent boating safety video website links.

Boating Safety Featured Videos

And finally, besides checking your state DNR or teacher networks, here are links to other websites that offer free classroom lesson activities on boating and water safety for kids of all ages:

Green Smart Water Safety

Red Cross Know About Boating

WIDNR – Boating Lessons

Boating Safety Mag – For Kids

Safe Passage Lessons – Army Corps of Engineers

Junior Crew Teacher’s Kit