PE Course 1 · Week 7 · Heart, Breath, and Stress
Reading My Heart Rate
Students take their pulse at rest, after a jog, and after slow breathing, then journal how heart rate and feelings rise and fall together.
- Students will
- Students measure heart rate at rest, after a jog, and after slow breathing, and connect changes in heart rate to feelings in their body.
- SEL skill
- Connect heart rate changes to feelings in my body
- What it looks like
- Students recognize physical signals of emotions and name what their heart is telling them.
- Content focus
- Heart rate and feelings
- 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
- C1.3.3: 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.
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.
- 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.
- 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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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.