PE Course 1 · Week 9 · Heart, Breath, and Stress
Nerves and Performance
Students attempt a target throw once calmly and once under a loud countdown, then analyze how nerves changed their focus and technique.
- Students will
- Students attempt a target throw calmly and then under a loud countdown, and analyze how nerves changed their focus and technique.
- SEL skill
- Notice how pressure changes focus and body signals
- What it looks like
- Students use emotions as information to explain how pressure affects performance.
- Content focus
- Nerves, pressure, and performance
- Format
- Collaborative analysis
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
- C1.1.6: High School Course 1, Standard 1 (Movement Skills), item 1.6
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 4.12.8 Analyzes and applies self-selected techniques to manage one's emotions in a physical activity setting.
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.
- Dance as Self Expression Self-awarenessSmall groups build an eight count sequence that expresses a feeling of their choice and journal how movement can say what words cannot.
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