PE Course 2 · Week 32 · Fitness for a Lifetime
Fitness for Someone I Love
Students try a low impact routine designed for an older adult and plan a simple activity program for a family or community member.
- Students will
- Students try a low impact routine designed for an older adult and plan a simple activity program for a family or community member (C2.2.7).
- SEL skill
- Imagine another person's needs and adapt a move for them
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by taking the perspective of someone with different needs and adapting an activity with care.
- Content focus
- Fitness for someone I love
- Format
- Partner exchange
Social awareness
Social awareness means understanding how others see things and caring about them, including people whose backgrounds differ from yours. More social 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
- C2.2.7: High School Course 2, Standard 2 (Physical Fitness), item 2.7
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.7 Applies the principles of exercise in a variety of self-selected lifetime physical activities.
More social awareness activities for PE Course 2
- Encouraging Every Level Social awarenessIn mixed ability stations, students practice specific encouragement for classmates at every level and journal about encouragement that helped them.
- Seeing the Whole Field Social awarenessIn small sided soccer, players freeze on a whistle and read teammates' positions and body language to choose the best next move.
- Leading the Warm Up Social awarenessSmall groups take turns leading a warm up and adjusting it to the group's energy and needs in the moment.
- Choosing Teams Fairly Social awarenessStudents compare ways of forming teams, test fair methods in a game, and journal about how team selection affects belonging.
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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.