Lesson Plan: Steer with Rudder
Level 1 Instructor Lesson Plan: #3 Focus Skill
Steer with Rudder Class Factors
Students: Number, Age, Skill Level, Boat-Type 12 students, ages 8-10, Beginner, Single-handed
Time: Duration of class
Tree hours Sunny, 10-12 knots, 75 degrees
Weather: Air & Water Temp, Wind Speed, Forecast Goal(s) What do you hope to accomplish?
Students will be able to consistently steer a steady course towards a designated target demonstrating proper body position and ability to avoid collisions.
Setup Chalk Talk:
• Whiteboard/Markers • Magnetic Boat
Land Drill: • 1-2 Rigged Boats 10 minutes
Materials needed to teach each step in the progression of learning, prep before students arrive.
On Water:
• Paddles (should be in boats)
• Whistle
Progression of Learning - Chalk Talk Purpose Value Statement: Explain why this focus skill will help connect to their sailing knowledge.
We will learn good body position and how to hold the tiller/mainsheet correctly while steering a steady course and quickly avoiding collisions.
Prior Skill Knowledge: What skills you need to know before learning about this new skill (brief review)
Understanding wind, parts of the boat, board and deboarding a boat. Artful Questions (1-2) to engage youth and help them connect to their prior experiences
What are the parts of the boat that help us steer the boat? Where do you sit in your boat so that you can steer freely to the leſt and to the right?
Content: Introduction:
To steer a sailboat you use a rudder and tiller. You steer with the tiller or tiller extension, but the rudder actually does the work of turning the boat. Te rudder can only turn the boat if the boat is moving. If the boat is stopped the boat can not turn.
Talking points with details:
Steps for steering the boat: • Prepare - Properly adjust your body position, tiller hand, and mainsheet hand. • Steer - Use the tiller or tiller extension to turn the boat to port and back to starboard. • Steering with a tiller is opposite to the direction the boat will turn while moving forward. • Move the tiller to the right, the boat turns leſt. • Move the tiller to the leſt, the boat turns right.
Activity: Use magnetic boats on the white board and take turns have the students predict what happens if the skipper moves the tiller away from them and then towards them.
Diagrams/Videos links: Reference the Skill Up app to see this skill in action. Lesson Plan 5:
Tip: When sailing, you may hear your instructor say, “Head up.” Move the tiller away from you and the bow will turn closer to wind. If you hear your instructor say, “Bear off,” move the tiller towards you and the bow will turn away from wind.
Wind
Safety: To avoid collisions, move the “Tiller Towards Trouble,” using just the tiller you can steer away from trouble.
10 minutes
Draw a large outline of two boats on a collision course without a rudder/tiller on the white board. Have students come up and draw the “tiller towards trouble” and a directional arrow for which way the boat will turn to avoid the collision.
Check for Understanding: Ask questions that probe for understanding. CONTROL AREA
SLALOM
Review points of sail on the boat; focus on sail trim and body position. Draw a boat with proper sail trim and then fill in the person and the correct body position for the skipper and crew. Now move to correct hold of the tiller extension (microphone not a whisk). Ask students what happens if you move the tiller towards the sail and move the tiller away from the sail. When heading upwind, move the tiller away from the sail, and the bow moves away from the wind. When you move the tiller toward the sail, the bow moves toward the wind. Draw this scenario on the board and have kids share how they think the bow will move depending on the movement of the tiller extension. Draw the sideways slalom course and discuss when students will need to head up and when they will need to bear away to get to the end of the course.
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