PE Course 1 · Week 33 · Safety and Lifelong Activity
Activity Across Generations
Students play a game that works for all ages and plan one way to be active with a family member or someone in their community.
- Students will
- Students play a game that works for all ages, analyze one social or cooperative benefit it creates in a family and one in a workplace, and plan one way to be active with a family member or someone in their community (C1.3.7).
- SEL skill
- Consider different ages and abilities when planning a shared activity
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by considering the needs and strengths of people of different ages.
- Content focus
- Activity that works across generations
- Format
- Group roles share
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how others see things and caring about them, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social 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
- C1.3.7: High School Course 1, Standard 3 (Psychological and Sociological Concepts), item 3.7
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 4.12.2 Selects and participates in physical activities that meet the need for social interaction.
More social awareness activities for PE Course 1
- Strengths in Every Partner Social awarenessTeams plan a relay by assigning legs based on each teammate's strengths, then journal about a strength they noticed in someone else.
- Heat Smart in the Valley Social awarenessDuring a shaded, low intensity circuit, students learn the warning signs of heat illness in the Coachella Valley and practice checking in on a partner and following the class heat plan.
- Finding the Beat Together Social awarenessIn a mirror dance, partners take turns leading and following an eight count pattern and journal what it took to stay in sync.
- Dances From Our Cultures Social awarenessStudents learn basic steps from cumbia and other cultural dances and journal about a family or community tradition that involves movement.
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RoseThread Connect activities are drafted with the help of AI and shaped by educators. Students never have to share anything personal. Our five SEL skills are informed by CASEL's SEL Framework; RoseThread Learning is not affiliated with or endorsed by CASEL.