PE Course 2 · Week 6 · Fitness for Health and Performance
Harder Than It Looks
Students predict how long they can hold their arms straight out, test it, and compare the prediction with what their body tells them.
- Students will
- Students use a timed hold protocol to assess muscular endurance, one of the five components of health related fitness covered across this unit, by predicting and then measuring how long they can hold an arms out shoulder hold, comparing the two, and explaining how muscular endurance differs from strength.
- SEL skill
- Compare a prediction about yourself with real evidence and say honestly when something gets hard
- What it looks like
- Students compare what they expected with what their body told them and practice saying honestly when something got hard.
- Content focus
- Muscular endurance and honest self-assessment
- Format
- Partner exchange
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
- C2.2.11: High School Course 2, Standard 2 (Physical Fitness), item 2.11
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.9 Evaluates perceived exertion during physical activity and adjusts effort.
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.
- Assessing Myself Privately Self-awarenessStudents complete self-assessments in the components of health related fitness, record results only in their own journal, and note feelings that came up.
- 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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