P.E. 26BThis page is used for messages (see below) to my P.E. 26B students during quarters the class is in session.
P.E. 26B is the beginning swim class at De Anza. For answers to frequently asked questions about swim classes, click on this link:
Swim classes FAQs
Most beginning swim classes at De Anza are held in deep water. Most winter quarters and occasionally in the evening, you can take a shallow water beginning swim class.
Winter quarter 2010 I will teach a shallow water beginning swim class on Saturdays from 10:30 to 12:15 p.m. starting January 9. PE 26B-01L (call number 1887).
You do not have to know how to tread water but should be able to swim some freestyle and backstroke.
This is a great way to learn to swim or relearn to swim.
No, it is not too cold to take a winter quarter or evening swim class. The pool is heated enough for seniors exercise programs. You can stay warmer with a swim cap, rash guard type tight-fitting shirt, cyclists shorts or even a wetsuit vest, but most people just go ahead and swim.
Want to buy a spring (short sleeve, short leg) wetsuit or rashguard? Take a look at:
http://www.sportchalet.com/
http://www.sportsbasement.com/
below, lifeguard Somayeh Tajerzadeh and swimmers model warm swimwear including various coverages of rash guards:
How to find the pools, sunscreen, P/NP grading, waitlists and more
are covered at
Swim classes FAQs
See also: How to get a P.E. locker at De Anza College
Taking a lower level swim class is not a strict prerequisite for a higher level, you just need the skills of a better swimmer. Not sure which class to take? Read: beginning swimming at De Anza College or intermediate swimming at De Anza College
Enrollment and registration steps for De Anza College are at: http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/admissions/
Find the diving well/pool on this map:
http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/map/pe_area.html
To get from the pool deck to the locker rooms, women enter the tunnel on the RIGHT from the pool deck and go directly up to their locker room. Men enter through the LEFT entrance and go down a hall to their locker room.
Men should note that there is a storage room in the left tunnel that is accessed by both female and male personnel, and they should change clothes in the locker room, not the tunnel.
Each first Saturday of the month there is a flea market at De Anza, taking up a lot of parking space. There will be parking attendants asking for ten dollars to park, but if you have purchased a quarter-long permit and tell them you are there for a swim class, they will let you in.
Info on how to get a permit is at: http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/map/parkinginfo.html
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How to get a P.E. locker at De Anza College
Homework ... in a swim class??
All swim classes at De Anza share the same curriculum, (the course content, designed by De Anza College). Each instructor must teach the same of skills and knowledge about swimming, but each instructor can go about reaching these goals in various ways.
De Anza requires that swim students are taught strokes, treading water and underwater swimming, (and in higher level classes, turns and diving), and the curriculum says that swim students will:
Examine the global and historical development of swimming from survival to competition.
Experiment with the laws of physics as they apply to basic swimming skills.
Apply basic exercise physiology and nutrition to swimming.
Analyze causes of drowning and apply safe water practices.
De Anza also specifies that there will be assignments, such as:
Reading - text, handouts, outside source (library, web, magazine, etc.)
Writing -
1.One short essay on the history of swimming or swimming in the student's home country
2.Short answer and multiple choice examinations
These areas would require hours of lecture to cover them as required. In an effort to be able to spend more time in the water I have developed some short online reading assignments to cover most of them. Those that cover the De Anza requirements are required for a passing grade; do more and you can earn a higher grade.
Relax, these are short assignments.
The De Anza library has a few laptops for loan to students. http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/library/laptop.html
Please note: you are responsible for keeping a copy of each assignment in case the one you turn in is lost and I do not accept emailed assignments.
I post assignments here during quarters I am teaching beginning swimming.
FALL QUARTER HOMEWORK: (For people who are helping with the Saturday novice swim class, I am including notes about the schedule for that class.)
Homework due Wednesday, Sept. 30
Please note there is a home football game this Saturday, Oct. 3 and the men's lockerroom will not be available. There is a flea market on Saturday as well, and possible parking troubles. The college tries to save space for students in the upper level of the Flint Center parking garage next to the freeway.
Please make this correction to your greensheet: Cupertino police can be direct dialed from a cell phone at: 299-2311.
Read the swimming vocabulary webpage and briefly write up six safety rules you find. Let me know which ones you already knew. To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title swimming vocabulary.
Note that I said briefly write up; none of these assignments requires paragraphs and paragraphs of verbose prose.
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Not homework, but of interest:
Thursday, Oct. 1, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Campus blood drive. FREE movie tickets for donors. Read Blood donation FAQs to learn about donating. Register on line at: http://membersforlife.org/stanford/mobilesch/search.php
Oct. 15, 16, 21 & 22 tentative dates for free flu shots for students with a DASB card
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Homework due Homework due Wednesday, Oct. 7 / (no class Saturday, Oct. 10, due to a swim meet, ):
http://www.berkeleywellness.com/html/fw/fwFit02Stretching.html
take the open book stretching quiz at: swim class quizzes. To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title Stretching.
Homework due Wednesday, Oct. 14:
USA Swimming has a detailed nutrition article at:
http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabId=433&Alias=Rainbow&Lang=en
Feed Their Brains! A simple guide to teaching nutrition to swimmers.
1. Fueling Your Stroke – The Concept of Buying and Burning Gas
2. Eating Colorful Foods
3. How Much is Enough?
4. Timing is Everything!
5. Choosing the Best Cereals
6. What IS a Serving?
7. FLUIDS - Water vs Sports Drink
8. Analyzing Your Diet
read sections 1 to 7 (you can skip #8 if you want) and briefly write up three new things you learned. To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title Nutrition.
optional reading:
Search nutrition at the Ironman website for lots of recent articles:
http://ironman.com/
optional reading:
STOP THAT CRAMP!
4 causes -- and solutions -- for muscle cramps during exercise
http://www.usms.org/news/newsitem.php?n=29
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Homework due Wednesday, Oct. 21
Please note there is a home football game this Saturday, Oct. 24 and the men's locker room will not be available.
read History of swimming section through to History of aquatics not yet in the curriculum.
and take the open book History of swimming quiz at: swim class quizzes. To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title History of swimming.
Homework due Wednesday, Oct. 28
read: http://www.berkeleywellness.com/html/fw/fwFit03StrengthTraining.html
and take the open book strength training quiz at: swim class quizzes. To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title strength training.
Now could be a good time to start on the swim class short essay required by De Anza.
Homework due Wednesday, Nov. 4
probably no class Saturday, Nov. 7, due to a water polo meet
The American Cancer Society has skin cancer prevention info at:
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/lrn/lrn_0.asp
click on all about skin cancer - melanoma
click on overview: skin cancer - melanoma
click on Can melanoma skin cancer be prevented?
Read it and write up three new things you learned. If you already knew everything at that site, write up the three most important things mentioned.
To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title skin cancer.
Homework due Wednesday, Nov. 11
read Water safety and briefly write up four new things you learned.
If you already knew everything at that page, write up the four most important things mentioned.
To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title water safety.
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Homework due Wednesday, Nov. 18 (Saturday, Nov. 21 is the last PE26A weekend swim class Fall quarter.)
swim class short essay
and
read:
How to rescue a drowning victim using a reaching assist or a shepherd's crook and write up three new things you learned from the page.
If you already knew everything at that page, write up the three most important things mentioned.
To avoid confusion in recording your homework put your name at the top of the page, and the title shepherd's crook.
 Because it is difficult to recruit extra lifeguard volunteers to come in the evening, Saturday, Nov. 21 is the diving lesson. Please be at the pool promptly at 9:45 a.m. I am hoping that your class will progress through the initial steps at the pool edge quickly and can be at the diving boards by the time the novice students start their lesson at the pool edge.
The kayak/canoe lesson is also that day, at noon.
Our football team won the Coast Conference Division Championship and will have a bowl game at De Anza Nov. 21 at 1 p.m. The men's locker room will not be available for swim students.
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No homework due Wednesday, Nov. 25/ no class Saturday, Nov. 28 due to the holiday:
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Homework due Wednesday, Dec. 2:
the swim class final exam: swim class final exam.
We will probably go over and grade the final in class, anyone who does not bring it to class will be asked to complete it during class.
OOPs, if you didn't get around to reading the text; Fit and Well text chapter notes could help you with the final.
Also the absolutely last chance to turn in homework.
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The Outdoor Club will have a kayaking lesson in the De Anza pool Saturday, Nov. 21 at noon and if there is enough interest, at 1:30 p.m. Details and a few pictures from a previous lesson are posted at:
kayaking / canoeing lessons
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POTENTIAL EXTRA CREDIT:
Take the Water Safety test at:
http://www.galvestonbeachpatrol.com/
click on public education, then on teacher links, then on water safety test
Yes, the answers are at the end, but you will learn more from doing the test before you look at the answers. I missed one question that I should not have. Write up and turn in which questions you missed and what your wrong answers were.
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I will give one class makeup for a blood donation quarter, or, if you can't donate blood, two hours of work at the De Anza blood drive.
Read Blood donation FAQs to learn about donating. Show me the 'receipt'
they give you after the donation, dated this quarter,
before the last day of class.
De Anza College home games usually has the dates of the campus blood drives as well links to student recitals, dance performances and art exhibitions.
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programs for student success in all kinds of classes, including tutorials, readiness, academic skills, instructional computing and more:
http://www.deanza.edu/academicsupport/
More students qualify for financial aid than use it or even know they qualify. There are enrollment fee waivers you can apply for online which take about a week to get an answer. For all the details go to:
http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/financialaid/index.html
You don’t have to pay for all your classes/fees at once. De Anza has an installment payment plan that allows you to defer most of your payments. Go to: http://www.deanza.fhda.edu/registration/cashier/deferpay.html
De Anza College offers many scholarships, some of which have few applicants!
Check out the loot:
http://www.deanza.edu/financialaid/scholarship.html
You can read the curriculum, (course outline or course content, usually designed by a division then reviewed and approved by the college) for any De Anza class at: http://ecms.deanza.edu/deptoutlinespublic.html
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Many of my students ask me if I can teach their children to swim.
De Anza only has swim classes for teens and adults. For swim classes for kids (infants, toddlers or children), I recommend Water Babies swim school in Campbell. The owner is a graduate of De Anza lifeguard training. They are a National Association of Swim Schools member. They were a Bay Area Parent Family Favorite winner! (408) 377-4626.
http://www.waterbabiesswim.com
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I recommend that if they have the time, all my swim students should also take PE 70/71, and use the Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Center.
Exercise links
has links to
goals, muscle pain, exercising with asthma, exercising with diabetes, staying fit over sixty, exercise recommendations for low back pain, calculating your exercise target heart rate and lots more.
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