Health Matching Activity: Identifying Personal Boundaries
A quick and easy instant activity to help students learn how to identify and set personal boundaries.
Learning how to identify and set personal boundaries is a vital health skill and a core element of SHAPE America Health Standard #4: Interpersonal Communication (and Standard #8: Advocating for Yourself). But before student can learn how to set boundaries, they need to learn how to identify their boundaries. Which is what this sorting activity is all about - learning how to listen to your head, heart, and body and build self-awareness of what’s wrong and right for you.
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When it comes to teaching students how to identify personal boundaries, there are three things to focus on: Your Head, Your Heart, and Your Body. And the more aware you are of what your head, heart, and body are telling you, the better you can identify what your boundaries are.
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In this sorting activity, students sort different scenarios according to whether it’s their head, body, or heart signaling that something is wrong or right. Each scenario is also an example of different types of boundaries:
Emotional Boundaries
Physical Boundaries
Material Boundaries
