Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.2B Grade 12 CPI 4

 

Standard: 2.2 - Integrated Skills

 

Strand: B -   Decision Making 

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 4 - The student will analyze the use of ethics and personal values when making decisions.

 

Grade: 12

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        NEGOTIATING FOR LIFE - Write a number of health and safety situations on slips of paper and place in a hat. Each student selects one situation, reads it to the class, and without further preparation, describes how he/she would handle the situation. The class votes, thumbs up or down , on the choice of skills proposed by the “performer”. Allow one thumbs-down participant to challenge and offer an alternative strategy. Encourage students to be creative in the use of the skills.

 

·        SKILLS FOR LIFE - Provide students with case studies/scenarios that present real-life problems. (Have students brain-storm the problems in advance so you can write the case studies.) In small groups, students identify the problem, rate the relative risk (based on a student-developed risk scale), and select the appropriate skills needed to solve the problem. Students develop a one-act play that provides background, presents the dilemma, and then shows the character(s) using the appropriate skills. Allow some students to create a situation that is not resolved even though the person chose the correct skills. Each group presents their one act play and then leads a focused discussion on the use of the skills in the situation.


Variation: Students develop a monologue or paired dialogue reflecting on a problem or situation and what skills could have been employed to alter the outcome.

 

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