PE Course 1 · Week 35 · Safety and Lifelong Activity
How I Have Grown as a Mover
Students revisit their week one movement sampler and journal how their identity as a mover has changed this year.
- Students will
- Students revisit the week one movement sampler and describe how their enjoyment, self-expression, challenge, and social experience of movement have changed (C1.3.4).
- SEL skill
- Notice personal growth and name strengths and goals as a mover
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by noticing growth in their own feelings, strengths, and goals as movers.
- Content focus
- Growth as a mover over the year
- Format
- Think write pair share
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
- C1.3.4: High School Course 1, Standard 3 (Psychological and Sociological Concepts), item 3.4
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 4.12.9 Reflects on movement experiences during physical education to develop understanding of how movement is personally meaningful.
More self-awareness activities for PE Course 1
- Who Am I as a Mover? Self-awarenessStudents rotate through a movement sampler of jogging, dancing, throwing, and balancing stations, then journal about which movements feel most like them and why.
- Five Components, My Way Self-awarenessStudents move through stations for cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility and privately note which ones energize them and which feel hard, without comparing to anyone.
- Reading My Heart Rate Self-awarenessStudents take their pulse at rest, after a jog, and after slow breathing, then journal how heart rate and feelings rise and fall together.
- Nerves and Performance Self-awarenessStudents attempt a target throw once calmly and once under a loud countdown, then analyze how nerves changed their focus and technique.
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