School Study Guides

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.

The guide is available to all schools free of charge through this link. (12.6mb)

Watch the full 50 minute program of Rip Current Heroes

Rip Current Rescue Study Guide

Produced in partnership with United States Lifesaving Association and input from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Rip Current Rescue is the story of the greatest safety issue on US beaches – responsible for over 80% of all rescues by Lifeguards and an increasing number of tragic, but avoidable, drownings every summer.

This study guide is the first of its kind in the United States to be devoted to educating people about rip currents and is guided by the content and footage presented in the documentary ‘Rip Current Rescue’ A program which features dramatic rescue stories along with expert interviews to provide users with knowledge of: