Body Awareness What Would You Do? Cards

A cousin says her mouth feels like paper while her water bottle waits on the porch step.

40 scenario cards
120 action cards
40 reflection sheets
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Grades: 2–5
What you get: 40 scenario cards in five subtopics
Type: What Would You Do? Cards
Use it: Print + digitaldigital = one link, no student logins
Competency: Self-Awareness
Topic: Body Awareness

About this resource

A cousin says her mouth feels like paper while her water bottle waits on the porch step. These body awareness what would you do scenarios ask Grades 2–5 to read signals like that one: a growling stomach, heavy eyes, icy fingers, an achy ear. Each of the 40 Think, Choose, Act cards ends with three possible actions, building the Self-Awareness that turns a body signal into a sensible next step.

What students practice

Noticing hunger, thirst and tiredness
Telling a body need apart from a want
Moving or resting when energy is off
Making a change when it’s too hot, cold or loud
Telling a grown-up when someone feels sick

What’s inside

40scenario cards in five subtopics: Noticing Hunger, Thirst and Tiredness; Need or Want?; Too Much or Too Little Energy; Too Hot, Too Cold or Too Loud; Feeling Sick and Telling Someone

120action cards: one meets the body’s need, one only partly does, one ignores the signal

40reflection sheets

Teacher guide; 77 pages

A look inside

The Giant Blue Slushiethirsty Jada wants the giant slushie while her water bottle is half full. Action cards: Need or Want Check, Get a Small One, Wait in Line.

The Booming Speakeryour seats are under a giant speaker, and Jun’s ear muffs are in his backpack.

The Achy TummyPriya has been quiet all morning. The strongest card is Tell the Teacher.

How to use these body awareness what would you do cards

Think-Pair-Share on Bouncy-Ball LegsWhat is Ines’s body saying after a long assembly?

Sort the cards for Roasting in a Sweatshirt from best to not the best

Act out Soggy Mittens and ask “What happens next?” for each action

Reflection sheets as homework or in an SEL small group; three stations instead of five when time is short

Grade fit

The scenes run across 15 community, 13 school and 12 home settings, from a hiking lookout to the after-lunch slump in class. Signals come in kid language (wet-noodle arms, feeling as slow as a sloth), so the body awareness scenarios read easily in Grades 2–5.

Digital version

The interactive digital version shares as one link: students answer the think questions (or just read them in the quick format), choose an action card and say why, on any device with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.

Good to know

In every one of these body awareness activities, a friend, sibling or cousin describes the signal and students help, so no child shares their own body details. The feeling-sick cards have no medical detail, and the strongest choice brings in a grown-up.

Pairs well with

Build on the set with Body Awareness Scenario Cards or Body Awareness Conversation Cards.

Questions teachers ask

Will students have to talk about their own bodies?

No. Each scenario is about a friend or family member, like a cousin with icy fingers or a friend with a scratchy throat, and students decide how to help.