AdventureSmart | Presenting Snow Safety & Education

AdventureSmart uses a network of presenters, primarily volunteers, to meet your presentation requests.

However, due to the popularity of our program, we can’t always meet the demand in your community. As such, we encourage parents, group leaders, and educators to use the resources below to deliver the message.

Guidelines

Snow Safety & Education must be delivered free of charge, and presentations can be adapted to fit the age of the audience, and the amount of time allocated to the presentation, as long as the two key parts are covered.

Using our instructor materials, those interested in Snow Safety & Education can learn about presenting key material, and offering a fun and informative presentation.

Click here to request a presentation, to be delivered to your group by one of our many trained AdventureSmart presenters.

If you would like to give the presentation to your group yourself, please see the suggested introduction, outline, and tips below.

Snow Safety & Education Presentation Outline

The Snow Safety & Education presentation has two parts:

On-hill ski/board safety

This part teaches ski hill safety to skiers and snowboarders, to prepare them for a school trip to a local ski hill, or a weekend at a ski resort with family and friends.

What do you need for the backcountry?

This part teaches skiers and snowboarders how to be prepared and stay safe while in unmanaged spaces.

Snow Safety & Education Presentation Details

The Alpine Responsibility Code;
Ski resort signs and symbols;
Backcountry hazards;
Avalanches and being prepared with additional avalanche education, training and equipment.

Presenter Tips

Try to sit at the level of your audience so you are not talking down to them.

Be conscious that some audience members may have been affected by winter recreation incidents previously, and always discuss these topics with respect and sensitivity.

Use inclusive language (efor example, “skiing or riding”, “he or she”)

Follow these tips about voice, physical behaviour, and attitude for a great presentation!

Voice: A presenter’s main tool is their voice! There are four main components to your voice that will affect your delivery. Together, proper volume, articulation, rate of speech, and pitch of voice can ensure your participants understand what you’re saying.

Volume: Adjust your voice so that participants in the first and last rows, and everybody in between, can hear what you’re saying. Good volume is usually based on confidence, so take a deep breath, pause briefly, and let the words come out strongly.
Articulation: Producing clear sounds is important to ensure your audience understands you. Open your mouth when speaking, enunciate each word, and speak clearly.
Rate: If you speak too fast, the audience cannot keep up with what you’re saying, but if you speak too slowly they can lose interest. To avoid being monotone, change your rate of speech throughout. A faster rate is useful for generating enthusiasm, a slower rate can help emphasize important points, and pauses give the audience a chance to digest what you have just said.
Pitch: Varying your pitch between high and low frequencies enhances verbal communication, because it can convey intentions and feelings such as enthusiasm, emphasis, and caution. It also makes your presentation more interesting, because it prevents you from being monotone.

Physical Behaviour: Physical behaviour, including your appearance, actions, and eye contact, is a valuable communication tool between you and your audience. While good physical behaviour can improve your presentation delivery, poor physical behaviour can have an impact on your audience’s focus and understanding.

Appearance—By appearing clean and neat, you and your message will appear professional. How you look will affect how well your audience remembers and perceives what they have been taught.
Actions—There are three types of actions: bodily movements, gestures, and eye contact can be as much help as a hindrance to your presentation.
1. Bodily Movements: A presenter who does not stand immobile and rigid is much more interesting. By subtly moving around, and using natural gestures, you can keep your audience engaged. Also, rather than standing in front of your audience, consider sitting with them, to be on their level at a distance that is not too far, to appear distant, but also not too close to appear overbearing.
2. Gestures: Gestures are to speaking, what pictures are to writing, as they are a visual aid to the message you are trying to convey. While they are beneficial, remember that too many gestures will begin to take away from your words.
3. Eye Contact: Try your best to consistently maintain eye contact with the audience. By doing this, you establish a closer relationship with them, and appear more confident. Effective eye contact has to be direct, impartial, and random; rather than fix on one student, have eye contact with the audience as a whole.

Attitude: A participant’s motivation can be affected with the general mood of the audience, which is strongly influenced by the attitude of the presenter. Your attitude should be enthusiastic, helpful, and tactful, in order to secure the good will and co-operation of the audience. You should also be in control of the presentation, be firm and honest to maintain discipline, and have patience to go over a point until it is understood.

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Presentation Resources

While some Snow Safety & Education information is available to all, registered members who participate in a presenter training session, and teachers, have access to additional content.

If you are interested in taking a Snow Safety & Education presenter training course and benefitting from customizable material, fillable certificates templates, and merchandise discounts, please click here.

Snow Safety Video: “A Little Respect—Think First”

Play the video “A Little Respect—Think First” during your Snow Safety Education presentation to help children understand the importance of being safe and respecting themselves, their peers, and the mountains while they are outdoors.

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A Little Respect—Guide (PDF)

This guide provides detailed information that you can use to elaborate on the key messages in the video.

Snow Safety & Education Slideshow (PDF)

The Snow Safety & Education presenter’s slideshow offers key information and provides interesting images.

Ski Hill Signage Sudoku (PDF)

Download the Ski Hill Signage Sudoku game to help your participants learn about the signs and symbols they see on a ski hill.

Word Search (PDF)

First, find key terms and messages from the presentation, and then try and solve the secret message.

Download Presentation Resources

You can download presentation material from the list below, including a slide show and hi-definition versions of the videos. Please provide your name and email address for record-keeping purposes.

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Download files from the following list:

File Title	Size
A Little Respect-Brochure (PDF)	1.6 MB
A Little Respect-Guide (PDF)	1.8 MB
A Little Respect-Think First (VIDEO MP4)	253 MB
Snow Safety Presenters Slideshow (PDF)	1.8 MB
Snow Safety Sudoku	181 KB
Snow Safety Word Search	249 KB

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