Spring 2023 Lead & Learn

Aquatics

All aboard! Get girls active on the water by taking them on a boating adventure. Courses in this section will teach you how to plan and execute safe and exciting small craft activities suitable to your girls’ experience levels.

Small Craft Safety: Canoeing – required to supervise all levels of Girls Scouts in canoes on flat water (no current). • Basic Water Rescue blended-learning course • Small Craft Safety Core online course • GSUSA Small Craft Safety Training online course (videos) • Small Craft Safety: Canoeing blended-learning course Small Craft Safety: Sailing – required to supervise Juniors through Ambassadors in sailboats on flat water (no current). • Basic Water Rescue blended-learning course • Small Craft Safety Core online course • GSUSA Small Craft Safety Training online course (videos) • Small Craft Safety: Sailing blended-learning course Small Craft Safety: Moving Water – required to supervise Cadettes through Ambassadors in canoes on Class I or Class I/II moving water (with current). • Basic Water Rescue blended-learning course • Small Craft Safety Core online course • GSUSA Small Craft Safety Training online course (videos) • Small Craft Safety: Canoeing blended-learning course • Small Craft Safety: Moving Water blended-learning course Note that Basic Water Rescue is now offered as a stand alone blended-learning course, in addition to being a component of all Small Craft Safety learning paths.

This spring’s Small Craft Safety Program is better than ever! Each course is provided in a blended-learning format that incorporates online learning and in-person skills demonstrations. GSEM’s Small Craft Safety Program is organized into three learning paths, each of which contains all the knowledge you need (through online modules) to take part in the in-person skills session for each aquatic discipline (Canoeing, Sailing, or Moving Water). While the Girl Scouts Small Craft Safety learning paths are based on American Red Cross materials, they do not result in American Red Cross certifications. Instead, they acknowledge the successful completion of all requirements for that learning path. Girl Scouts Small Craft Safety learning paths are renewable every three years. Each Small Craft Safety learning path contains multiple online-only and blended-learning courses, meaning there are online components accessible anytime in gsLearn and corresponding in-person skills sessions requiring registration. Some courses are found in all learning paths; however, once you complete a course in one learning path it will show that it is complete in the other learning paths. All online components must be completed before attending any of the in-person skills sessions.

Each learning path is described in the next column:

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