Resources

online and blended learning

The Society has updated the Instructor Manual with an appendix that provides guidance for instructors teaching courses in online and blended learning formats. Please download, read and insert this PDF into your manual. The appendix is available in English and French.

First Aid Award guide Updates 2022

This document outlines the changes made in 2022 to the Society's First Aid Award Guide. No need to purchase a new award guide. Just download the update and insert it into your existing book.

Explore the New Bronze Medal Awards

Teaching Bronze (USB Flash Drive)

Provides a suite of resources for instructors teaching the (revised 2020) Lifesaving Society Bronze medal awards. Includes sample core and lesson plans, learning activities, and PowerPoint presentations for each Bronze level.

Also includes outlines and activities for blended learning formats. Features new instructional videos on Drowning Resuscitation and the Canadian Drowning Report. Includes the revised 2020 fillable test sheets and the Instructor Answer Guides for the Bronze Medallion and Bronze Cross Workbooks.

Purchase the Teaching Bronze USB Flash Drive at LifeguardDepot.com.

Bronze Awards Video (USB flash drive)

Designed specifically for instructors teaching Bronze Star, Medallion and Cross. Features real kids - like the ones you teach - in seven important segments: The Rescue Process, Ladder Approach, Rescuer's Checklist, Submerged Victim Recovery, Defenses and Releases, Spinal Rollovers, Surface Dives.

Watch Bronze level candidates bring the Canadian Lifesaving Manual to life in demonstrations of tows, carries, removal techniques and victim simulations including distressed and drowning victim characteristics. See rescue skills performed in both pool and waterfront environments.

The Bronze Awards Video is an excellent instructional resource for introducing candidates to essential water rescue concepts. Slow motion, freeze frames, colourful animation and underwater angles means you can clearly see skills and techniques like you've never seen them before. Combined running time: 43 minutes.

Purchase the Bronze Awards Video USB Flash Drive at LifeguardDepot.com.

Bronze Workbooks 2020 - INSTRUCTOR answer GUIDEs

The Bronze Medallion and Cross Workbook Instructor Answer Guides are designed for Instructors teaching Bronze Medallion or Bronze Cross to quickly locate sample answers for the questions and activities featured in the workbook. Some workbook questions may have several possible answers, which may not be listed in this answer guide. Instructors should review alternative answers candidates find in the Canadian Lifesaving Manual.