Facilitation guide for November's Social-Emotional Health theme: Feeling Friendly. Includes activity plans for identifying emotions, practicing kindness, and building friendship skills.
A formal lesson plan for the Stress Toll lesson, incorporating 5 specific instructional strategies (Aggressive Monitoring, Sentence Stems, Stop and Jot, Think-Pair-Share, and Chunking) with a step-by-step procedure.
A hands-on card sort activity where students classify stressful high school scenarios as acute or chronic and match them to their physiological impacts. Now expanded with 6 scenarios and scrambled for student use.
A comprehensive teacher guide for the Stress Toll lesson, including instructional objectives, common misconceptions, discussion prompts, and a detailed answer key for the DOK-leveled worksheet. Now updated with Aggressive Monitoring protocols.
A comprehensive worksheet featuring DOK level 1, 2, and 3 questions with integrated sentence stems to scaffold student writing and analysis of chronic stress.
A visual presentation for high school students explaining the biological impact of chronic stress, now featuring Think-Pair-Share, Stop and Jot, and a Chunked instructional structure.
A student-facing "Solo Reps Log" worksheet designed for tracking completion of 16 different individual drills. Includes categories for walkovers, handsprings, aerials, and core strength with checkbox tracking for multiple sets.
A comprehensive 1-page reference guide for students containing 12 individual drills they can perform on side-mats without a spotter. Drills are categorized by skill focus: Walkovers, Power/Handsprings, Aerials, and Core.
An expanded set of 6 visual station cards designed to be printed and placed at different areas of the gym. Includes dedicated stations for individual solo drills like handstand snap-downs and hurdle skips that don't require spotting.
An updated student-facing skills tracker for tumbling, now including a dedicated "Solo Foundations" section for tracking progress on individual drills like snap-downs, wall holds, and hurdle timing.
A revised 2-page coaching guide for the tumbling session, now featuring a management strategy for balancing spotted skills with new solo/individual drill stations. Includes updated timeline and coaching tips for solo skill acquisition.
A student planning worksheet for 'The Movement Shift' lesson. Students design a one-week movement plan that replaces physical metrics like calories and PRs with mental intentions and focuses on psychological well-being.
A visual slide deck for 'The Movement Shift' lesson, featuring Jake Tyler's TEDx talk, key discussion prompts on mental health, and a comparison between traditional exercise and mindful movement.
A teacher facilitation guide for 'The Movement Shift' lesson, including learning objectives, a detailed timeline, key vocabulary definitions, and guided discussion prompts for analyzing Jake Tyler's TEDx talk on movement and mental health.
A structured toolkit handout for parents, featuring descriptions and URLs for health apps, note-taking space, and a dedicated 'Family Health Goal' section.
A set of printable paper slips for students to write down stress factors for the Risk Jar hook activity.