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10 SEL Activities For High School

PLT4M

This includes the capacities to delay gratification, manage stress, and feel motivation and agency to accomplish personal and collective goals. Explicit – Emotions Activity In this lesson, high schoolers practice labeling and experiencing different emotions during a meditation exercise.

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Why Game-Play is Important

Physical Education Ideas

How many times have you heard, “It’s just a game!” Game play mirrors the way the human mind was designed to learn. Games motivate students to take risks and actions, persist through failures, set and achieve often difficult goals and put attention, time and effort to acquiring knowledge and skills. Well, is it?

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The Beauty of Open-Ended Games in PE (Part Two)

Montessori Physical Education

Emotion has a powerful influence on attention, especially modulating the selectivity of attention as well as motivating action and behavior. They may need more buy-in to be compliant and active in PE, especially if they are inherently not sporty. The sustainability game echoes this sentiment because it is never played “perfectly.”

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5 Ways to Celebrate PE & Sport Week in Your School … All Year Long!

SHAPE America

Every May, we celebrate physical educators and coaches — the “champions” who help kids gain the confidence, competence, and motivation to be physically active in school, before and after school, and for the rest of their lives. The week also serves as the kickoff to National Physical Fitness and Sports Month.

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Creating an Engaging Obstacle Course in PE Class

School Yard

Motivating students to develop a life-long love of healthy movement and physical activity is just one of several unique challenges for PE educators. Also be sure to explore the Group Activities & Games tag page to find inspiration for lesson plans and active games for the whole class.

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