Leisure skills and recreation activities bundle life skills and VPC in high school
Resource Description
Your life skills and transition high school students will enjoy this new leisure skills and recreation skills bundle of worksheets, activities and practical tasks for real world reading during community focused sessions. The bundle includes print and go learner booklet of worksheets and tasks, leisure and recreation activities, assessment tasks and task cards to help them solve common life skills problems in the community. Perfect as your students head back to school this year, the leisure and recreation bundle introduces them to community based leisure activities to support independence. Building independence skills in high school life skills and pathways activities is so important, because it helps students get ready for planning recreation and leisure activities and finding out how to access community places and events in their local neighbourhood.
What's inside?
- A leisure and recreation slideshow with information about how to plan and find out about activities and places in the community, with activities included
- A 45 page learner booklet of recreation and leisure information about types of activities, places and planning for participation
- Assessment tasks included so you can assess student skills and knowledge
- A mapping rubric so you can check off skills and knowledge (useful if you are using this unit for formal assessment within the transition education course)
- A set of problem solving task cards with recreation and leisure problems that students can discuss and solve
- An action plan so they can plan their answers to solve the leisure and recreation scenarios on the task cards
How long will it take?
You can use the leisure and recreation resources in this bundle to teach your life skills and transition high school students for a full unit of work, alongside community access activities (CBI). This works well if you visit community recreation venues such as:
- bowling alley
- movie cinema
- local park
- swimming pool
- skatepark
- hiking trail
- camping site
Students can complete the activities and learning content, then participate in active leisure and recreation activities that they have planned themselves (with supervision as required).
Who is it for?
This recreation and leisure bundle is ideal for:
- Life skills high school
- Transition education
- Work education
- Vocational education
- Pathways
It suits older learners who prefer an easy reading style with strong teacher support.