PE Course 1 · Week 8 · Heart, Breath, and Stress
Breathing to Reset
After short sprint intervals, students practice box breathing to bring their heart rate down and journal one moment outside PE when the reset could help.
- Students will
- Students recover from short sprint intervals using box breathing, track how their breath and heart rate settle, and name a moment outside PE when a reset could help.
- SEL skill
- Use a breathing routine to settle my body and name when to use it
- What it looks like
- Students practice regulating their body and emotions with a breathing routine.
- Content focus
- Box breathing and recovery after sprints
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management means steering your emotions, thoughts, and actions so you can reach a goal. More self-management activities
What you get
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Standards
- C1.3.3: High School Course 1, Standard 3 (Psychological and Sociological Concepts), item 3.3
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.10 Applies heart rate concepts to ensure safety and maximize health-related fitness outcomes.
- SHAPE America (national): 4.12.8 Analyzes and applies self-selected techniques to manage one's emotions in a physical activity setting.
More self-management activities for PE Course 1
- Personal Bests, Private Data Self-managementStudents complete a baseline fitness check, record results only in their own journal, and set one goal measured against their own starting point.
- Yoga Flow and Focus Self-managementStudents learn a short yoga flow paired with slow breathing and journal how their attention and body felt before and after.
- Brave Enough to Perform Self-managementSmall groups perform their sequence for a supportive audience and journal how they managed nerves before, during, and after.
- Goals Without Comparison Self-managementStudents redo their private baseline check, compare only to their own week four results, and adjust their goal for the next half of the year.
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