PE Course 2 · Week 35 · Fitness for a Lifetime
Two Years of Moving
Students revisit the movement timeline from week one of their first PE course and add how their preferences, confidence, and goals have changed over two years.
- Students will
- Students explain how their personal characteristics, performance styles, and activity preferences have changed and may change over a lifetime (C2.3.2).
- SEL skill
- Name how my strengths and preferences have grown
- What it looks like
- Students practice self-awareness by noticing how their confidence, preferences, and strengths have grown.
- Content focus
- Two years of moving
- Format
- Think write pair share
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
- C2.3.2: 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.
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.