School Study Guide

Rip Current Heroes was Australia's first rip current documentary special that was also produced with a dedicated school study guide, designed to give teachers and students a comprehensive understanding of rip current science and survival strategies.

The study guide is tailored primarily to secondary school students and curriculums with relevance to units of work in the learning areas of health and physical education, science and geography, but much of the content could also be adapted to primary curriculums.

The guide contains a broad range of interesting and fun student activities and tasks all designed to give students knowledge of :

• The science of rip currents: what they are, how they form and how they flow

• The different types of rip currents and where they occur

• How to spot a rip current

• What to do if caught in a rip current

• How to react when someone else is caught in a rip current

• Approaches to educating communities about a natural hazard.