This class is intended to teach attitude, awareness, ability, and coordination of body movement. We do not teach with the intent that the victim will fight the attacker, but rather that they utilize the element of surprise along with these moves for survival. 

Subject: Physical Education
Topic: Self Defense
Grade Level: 10th
Student Lesson Name: Self Defense
Student URL:ctap295.ctaponline.org/~daughertyk/student
Standards Addressed                                               Back to Top

This lesson addresses the physical education standards for the tenth grade. Specifically the student will be competent in many movement skills and movement knowledge. A detailed list of all the standards can be found at http://www.cde.ca.gov/challenge/PE_pdf/pehighschool1.pdf

Tenth Grade
Physical Education: Movement Skills and Movement Knowledge

1.0  The student will be competent in many movement  activities. 

2.0  The student will understand how and why one moves in a variety of situations and will use this information to enhance his or her skills.

• Show basic competence in more than one activity from the unit.
• Identify the characteristics of highly skilled performance in a few movement forms.
• Understand the relationship between biomechanical principles and movement.
• Assess the movement skills of self and others.
• Analyze basic awareness of surroundings.                                                           Back to Top

• Students will document their competence by demonstrating proficiency in a variety of attack moves.
• After analyzing information from a video on correct self defense moves, student will be able to compare his or her movement form against a provided rubric. Using this analysis, students will compare and contrast their own movement.
• In a cooperative group students will put together a sequence of three attack moves.
• In a cooperative group students will create a scenario and perform the attack against another group.
• Student will understand how to make themselves safe from an attack.

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Introductory Activity
Initial Skills

• Identifying personal space
• Approaches (neighbor vs stranger)                                                          Back to Top
• Stance/aggressive posture
• Verbalizing (group yell, individual yell, yell with stance)
• Action (kicks, escapes, strikes)

• Have students in groups of three. Each group will make up three scenario that could happen to them in real life. (Example: You are home alone waiting for your pizza to be delivered.  The delivery man arrives you open the door and he tells you how much you owe him. You turn to get your money and he forces his way into your house. What do you do?) 
• Have them write down what they would do if they were attacked in the situations they wrote up.
• Perform the scenario on another group. 
• Samples of student scenarios 
• An actual success story of a woman who was attacked while jogging. 

• Students will be shown an attack based on what the attacks they have learned throughout the class.
• They will write down three defense moves that will get them out of the situation.
• Power point will take them through ten attacks, and the students will have two minutes to write down how to get out of the situation.

Web Resources 

Self Defense Web Site http://www.selfdefense.org
Self Defense for Life Site http://www.selfdefenseforlife.com/oddscrime.htm
PE Links 4 U http://www.pelinks4u.org
Bay Area Model Mugging http://www.bamm.org/
PE Central http:http://.www.pecentral.org

Supplementary Materials
Name of Text Book :  Self Defense for Life by Bill and Becky Valentine
Pre and Post Test
Pre and Post Answer Key
Definition of Physical Techniques
Student Scenarios
Self Defense Rubric
Final Test