PE Course 2 · Week 9 · Gymnastics, Tumbling, and Trust
Listening to My Body
Students use body awareness and partner feedback to refine a gymnastics skill and journal the difference between healthy challenge and pain.
- Students will
- Students use feedback from their body, a partner, and their own performance to refine a basic tumbling skill and tell healthy challenge from pain.
- SEL skill
- Recognize body signals and decide whether to push, adjust, or stop
- What it looks like
- Students recognize body signals and decide when to push, adjust, or stop.
- Content focus
- Body feedback and healthy challenge
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own emotions, thoughts, and body signals and understanding how they influence your choices. 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): 2.12.13 Applies movement concepts and principles (e.g., force, motion, rotation) to analyze and improve performance.
- SHAPE America (national): 3.12.4 Implements and provides feedback to improve performance without prompting from teacher.
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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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.