My Body, Movement & Wellness

Objectives

• D03.S1.08.01 Explain the basic role of the nervous system in sensing and responding, such as the fight, flight, or rest response.
• D03.S1.08.02 Describe how stress affects the body over time and name healthy ways to help the body return to calm.
• D03.S2.08.01 Design a short movement routine and explain how each part builds strength, endurance, or flexibility.
• D03.S2.08.02 Demonstrate fair play and inclusive practices that welcome peers of all abilities into movement and games.

Essential questions

• How does my nervous system sense and respond — fight, flight, or rest — and how does stress affect my body over time?
• How do I design movement that builds strength, endurance, and flexibility, and make games and movement welcome every ability?

Big ideas

• The nervous system moves the body between fight, flight, and rest, and stress that lingers has a real cost the body can be helped to unwind.
• Movement can be designed with purpose — strength, endurance, flexibility — and fair play and inclusive practices welcome every body and ability.

Lessons

1. 1 My Body, Movement & Wellness: Where We've Been, Where We're Going 50 minutes
2. 2 Fight, Flight, or Rest: How My Nervous System Senses and Responds 50 minutes
3. 3 When Stress Stays: The Cost and the Way Back to Calm 50 minutes
4. 4 Three Ways Movement Builds Me: Strength, Endurance, Flexibility 50 minutes
5. 5 Designing My Movement Routine 50 minutes
6. 6 Fair Play: Movement That Welcomes Every Body 50 minutes
7. 7 Capstone: My Body, My Wellness, My Choice 50 minutes

Assessment plan

Observation of a learner explaining the nervous system's fight, flight, or rest response and naming healthy ways to return to calm; a designed movement routine with each part labeled by strength, endurance, or flexibility; and evidence of fair play and inclusive practices in games as portfolio artifacts.