Teach It at Home: One Exercise From Today for Your Family

Each student picks a mobility or stretching exercise from the lesson and rehearses teaching it to a family member or housemate, with a version adapted for older or inactive people. The challenge is to take physical activity beyond school and prove they can explain it.

How to play

1. Each student chooses a gentle exercise from the lesson and repeats it slowly to lock it in (1 min).
2. On the card, prepare an explanation with three keys: starting position, movement and a safety tip, plus an adaptation for someone older or with limited mobility (2 min).
3. In pairs, one plays an inexperienced family member and the other teaches the exercise using only words and a demonstration; the "family member" asks real questions (2 min).
4. Switch roles (2 min).
5. Home challenge: teach it this week and note on the card how it went and what had to change (1 min).

Rules

• Choose only gentle, safe exercises with no load or jumping.
• The safety tip is a required part of the explanation.
• The home challenge is optional and fits each student's situation: it can be a friend or neighbor.
• Respect the speaker's turn without interrupting.

Variations

Adaptations

• Deaf or hard of hearing: explain through demonstration and picture cards.
• Autism: provide a script template with sentence starters.
• Limited mobility: choose an upper-body exercise the student can demonstrate seated.

Learning goals

• Transfer what they learned in class to daily life.
• Explain an exercise clearly, including safety criteria.
• Adapt a task for people of different ages and fitness levels.

Equipment for a class of 25

• cards: 30

Teacher tip

Set aside two minutes next class to hear how the challenge went. Many families appreciate it, and it strengthens the link with the school.

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