PE Course 1 · Week 20 · Individual Activities and Personal Goals
Learning a Skill on My Own
Using step by step task cards, students teach themselves a new jump rope trick and journal the strategies they used when they got stuck.
- Students will
- Students use step by step task cards to learn a new jump rope skill independently and describe strategies they use when stuck (C1.1.12).
- SEL skill
- Use a stuck plan when a skill is difficult
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-management by using persistence strategies when a new skill is difficult.
- Content focus
- Learning a skill on my own
- Format
- Partner exchange
Self-management
Self-management means handling your emotions, thoughts, and actions to reach a goal, even when things are hard. More self-management 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
- C1.1.12: High School Course 1, Standard 1 (Movement Skills), item 1.12
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.6 Establishes a goal and creates a practice plan to improve performance for a self-selected skill.
- SHAPE America (national): 1.12.2 Demonstrates activity-specific movement skills in a variety of recreational and backyard games.
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.
- Breathing to Reset Self-managementAfter short sprint intervals, students practice box breathing to bring their heart rate down and journal one moment outside PE when the reset could help.
- 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.
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