PE Course 2 · Week 13 · Team Strategy and Communication
Seeing the Whole Field
In small sided soccer, players freeze on a whistle and read teammates' positions and body language to choose the best next move.
- Students will
- Students freeze during a small sided soccer game, read teammates' positions and body language, and choose the best next move using game situation clues (C2.1.10).
- SEL skill
- Notice teammates' positions and cues and use them to choose a next move
- What it looks like
- Students practice social awareness by noticing teammates' positions, cues, and needs before they act.
- Content focus
- Reading teammates in small sided soccer
- 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
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Standards
- C2.1.10: High School Course 2, Standard 1 (Movement Skills), item 1.10
- Student page: PE journal page
- SHAPE America (national): 2.12.2 Demonstrates knowledge of tactics and strategies within recreational & backyard games.
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.
- 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.
- Games for All Abilities Social awarenessGroups modify a team game so that players with different abilities, including wheelchair users, can fully participate, then play the new version.
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