Content Area: Health and Physical Education

 

Index: 2.2E Grade 2 CPI 1

 

Standard: 2.2 - Integrated Skills

 

Strand: E - Leadership, Advocacy, and Service

 

Cumulative Progress Indicator: 1 - The student will act as a leader and a follower.

 

Grade: 2

 

Sample Activities:

 

·        STEPS TO A GREAT DECISION - Students create a poster that illustrates effective decision making steps. One easy method is the DECIDE model. Students share their posters with classmates and then hang the poster at home as a reminder of the steps.

- Determine the question.
- Examine the choices.
- Collect information and identify influences.
- Investigate consequences.
- Decide.
- Evaluate.

 

      Variation: Students create six footsteps, one for each of the six steps to an effective decision. Place the footsteps in strategic locations around the room to remind the students of the steps. Each day, have small groups of students solve a simple problem, step-by-step, and follow a decision-making path around the room.

 

·        MAKING CHOICES - Give each student a sheet of red paper and a sheet of green paper. Students print “NO” on the red paper and “YES” on the green paper. Read a statement that requires students to make a choice about something. If the student thinks the statement reflects a safe, smart, and healthy choice, he/she holds up the green paper. If the choice is unsafe, not smart, and unhealthy, he/she holds up the red paper. Students justify their answers.

SAMPLE: SAFE OR UNSAFE CHOICES
-        Let’s run across the street.
-        Let’s eat an apple.
-        Let’s steal an apple.
-       Let’s play with these matches.