PE Course 1 · Week 28 · Dual Activities and Partnership
Strategy With a Partner
Doubles pairs huddle to plan offensive and defensive positions, play a short game, and adjust their plan through clear communication.
- Students will
- Students plan offensive and defensive positions with a partner, play a short doubles game, and adjust through clear communication (C1.1.4).
- SEL skill
- State a plan clearly, listen to a partner, and adjust together
- What it looks like
- Students practice relationship skills by talking a plan through, listening, and adjusting together.
- Content focus
- Doubles strategy and clear communication
- Format
- Small group problem-solving
Relationship skills
Relationship skills mean building and keeping healthy connections through clear talking, careful listening, teamwork, and working through conflict. More relationship skills 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
- C1.1.4: High School Course 1, Standard 1 (Movement Skills), item 1.4
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.1 Demonstrates knowledge of tactics and strategies within lifetime sports & activities.
More relationship skills activities for PE Course 1
- Building a Safe Gym Together Relationship skillsAfter a boundary tag game, the class agrees on norms for a physically and emotionally safe gym and each student journals one norm they will personally protect.
- Feedback in Rhythm Relationship skillsPartners watch each other's dance sequence and trade one specific strength and one kind suggestion, then try the sequence again.
- Calling Lines Honestly Relationship skillsIn self-officiated pickleball, students make their own line calls and journal about a call that tested their honesty.
- When the Rally Gets Heated Relationship skillsPartners practice a pause, name it, and fix it routine during a competitive rally game and journal how to repair after a frustrating moment.
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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.