PE Course 2 · Week 1 · Fitness for Health and Performance
My Story as a Mover
Students try a short activity sampler, then sketch a movement timeline of activities they have loved and how their preferences have changed.
- Students will
- Students try four short activity stations, sketch a movement timeline of activities they have loved, and explain how their preferences may change over a lifetime.
- SEL skill
- Name a feeling and a strength tied to a way of moving
- What it looks like
- Students notice the feelings and strengths linked to the ways they move and see that preferences can grow and change.
- Content focus
- Activity sampler and my movement timeline
- Format
- Think write pair share
Self-awareness
Self-awareness means recognizing your own feelings, thoughts, values, and strengths and seeing how they guide 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
- C2.3.2: High School Course 2, Standard 3 (Psychological and Sociological Concepts), item 3.2
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 4.12.9 Reflects on movement experiences during physical education to develop understanding of how movement is personally meaningful.
- SHAPE America (national): 4.12.4 Chooses and participates in physical activity based on personal interests.
More self-awareness activities for PE Course 2
- 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.
- 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.
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.