Teaching Tools and Strategies - Sample Learning Activities

Sample Learning Activities

Focus Activities

• Student will discuss relevance of Chain of Survival, CPR and relate to personal situations.
• Realistic expectations for students must be stressed.
• View videos on emergency CPR.

Direct Instruction

• Students will review anatomy / physiology of circulatory system, terms, health risks, causes of cardiac arrest, and distinguish the difference between cardiac arrest and heart attack through teacher-directed activities.

Theory Aspects of the Unit will be Delivered Through Direct Instruction

• Students will participate in questioning - asking, answering, relating incidences, make connections.
• Students will complete review exercises in manual.
• Students will read and write new material in student CPR manual.

Peer Teaching / Community Volunteers

• Senior students / volunteers trained to assist in CPR instruction, along with students who have demonstrated proficiency in CPR will participate with learners in small groups to: demonstrate, lead, and assist in training for emergency procedures and techniques.
• Students will practice individually, in small groups, with peers.
• Students will evaluate peers according to performance indicator checklist; students will evaluate themselves.

Critical Incidence / Mock Scenarios

• Students will complete outlines of the actions they would take in various described emergency scenarios.
• Students will participate in discussion of appropriate response to emergency scenarios.
• Students will develop, role-play, discuss and evaluate mock emergency scenarios in the classroom.
• Students will reflect on their level of comfort with the skill of CPR, as well as discuss with family the 4Rs of CPR.
  Students will consider risk implications from their present lifestyles.