Health · Week 16 · Safety, Substances, and Community Health
Safe Moves Playbook
Students notice the feelings that can lead to risky choices in sports, social events, and cars, then build a playbook of injury prevention moves for each setting.
- Students will
- Students discuss ways to reduce the risk of injuries during athletic and social activities and practice injury prevention in athletic, social, and motor vehicle related settings.
- SEL skill
- Notice how feelings influence risk-taking
- What it looks like
- Students recognize how emotions like excitement, pressure, or showing off can affect risk-taking.
- Content focus
- Reducing injury risk in athletic, social, and vehicle settings
- Format
- Playbook huddle
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they shape what you do. More self-awareness activities
What you get
A teacher guide with what to say, step by step, plus student pages and a supports page for students with diverse learning needs, including those with IEPs. Print or Project it, or assign it in Google Forms and Google Docs for Google Classroom. Your first 10 activities are free.
Standards
- 1.1.S: Injury Prevention and Safety, Standard 1 (Essential Health Concepts), item 1.1.S
- 7.1.S: Injury Prevention and Safety, Standard 7 (Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors), item 7.1.S
- Student page: Health journal page
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 1: Essential Health Concepts
- CA Health overarching standard: Standard 7: Practicing Health-Enhancing Behaviors
More self-awareness activities for Health
- The Weather Inside Self-awarenessStudents use a weather report metaphor to sort an imagined student's stressors into home, school, and peer categories and name the feelings each one might bring.
- Why I Reach for That Snack Self-awarenessStudents sort the internal and external influences behind an imagined teen's food choices across a day and notice how mood, hunger, and surroundings shape eating.
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