PE Course 2 · Week 28 · Combatives, Respect, and Self Control
Knowing My Limits
Partners practice the tap and release signal and journal about recognizing their own limits and respecting a partner's.
- Students will
- Students use feedback from their own body and from a partner, through a green, yellow, red effort check and a tap and release signal, to adjust supported holds safely (C2.1.7).
- SEL skill
- Name a body signal and show a green, yellow, or red zone
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by noticing their own body signals and limits, and respecting a partner's limits without comment.
- Content focus
- Knowing my limits and honoring a partner's
- 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
- C2.1.7: High School Course 2, Standard 1 (Movement Skills), item 1.7
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 3.12.6 Applies best practices for participating safely in physical activity.
- SHAPE America (national): 3.12.1 Demonstrates awareness of other people's emotions and perspectives in a physical activity setting.
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.
- 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.
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