PE Course 2 · Week 3 · Fitness for Health and Performance
Assessing Myself Privately
Students complete self-assessments in the components of health related fitness, record results only in their own journal, and note feelings that came up.
- Students will
- Students use science based protocols to assess three of the five components of health related fitness (aerobic capacity, muscular endurance, and flexibility) as part of the unit's assessment sequence, privately compare each result with its Healthy Fitness Zone range, and describe their results honestly and kindly.
- SEL skill
- Notice a feeling about a personal result and respond with an honest and kind thought
- What it looks like
- Students use self-awareness to notice feelings that come up when looking at their own data and respond with honesty and kindness.
- Content focus
- Private fitness self-assessment
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness is noticing your own emotions, thoughts, values, and strengths and understanding how they affect your actions. 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
- C2.2.11: High School Course 2, Standard 2 (Physical Fitness), item 2.11
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.8 Designs and implements a plan that applies knowledge of aerobic, strength and endurance, and flexibility training exercises.
More self-awareness activities for PE Course 2
- My Story as a Mover Self-awarenessStudents try a short activity sampler, then sketch a movement timeline of activities they have loved and how their preferences have changed.
- Harder Than It Looks Self-awarenessStudents predict how long they can hold their arms straight out, test it, and compare the prediction with what their body tells them.
- Balance Under Pressure Self-awarenessStudents hold balances of increasing difficulty and notice how wobbles in the body match wobbles in focus or emotion.
- Listening to My Body Self-awarenessStudents use body awareness and partner feedback to refine a gymnastics skill and journal the difference between healthy challenge and pain.
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