KEY LEARNINGS: PHYSICAL EDUCATION 2006-2008

KINDERGARTEN

Spiritual Emphasis

 

• Recognize that God’s ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle

 

• Incorporate into one’s lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God

 

• Avoid at-risk behaviors

 

• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports

 

• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities

 

• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being

 

Movement and Motor Skills

 

• Demonstrate progress toward the mature form of selected manipulative, locomotor and non-locomotor skills

 

• Demonstrate mature form in walking and running

 

• Identify fundamental movement patterns (skip, strike)

 

• Establish a beginning movement vocabulary, e.g. personal space, high/low levels, fast/slow speeds, light/heavy weight, balance, twist

 

• Apply appropriate concepts to performance, e.g. change direction while running

 

Lifestyle and Fitness

 

• Participate daily in moderate to vigorous physical activity

 

• Select and participate in activities that require some physical exertion during free time

 

• Identify likes and dislikes connected with participation in physical activity

 

• Sustain moderate to vigorous physical activity in accordance with an approved fitness test

 

• Identify the physiological signs of moderate physical activity, e.g. fast heart rate, heavy breathing

 

• Understand the value of engaging in physical activities as play and recreation

 

• Associate positive feelings with participation in physical activity and play

 

• Try new movement activities and skills

 

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

 

• Learn and apply concepts of grace and forgiveness

 

• Apply, with teacher reinforcement, class room rules and procedures and safe practices

 

• Share space and equipment with others

 

• Recognize the joy of shared play

 

• Interact positively with students in class regardless of personal differences e.g. race, gender, disability, religion

 

FIRST AND SECOND GRADE

Spiritual Emphasis

 

• Recognize that God’s ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle

 

• Incorporate into one’s lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God

 

• Avoid at-risk behaviors

 

• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports

 

• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities

 

• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being

 

Movement and Motor Skills

 

• Demonstrate mature form in skipping, hopping, galloping and sliding

 

• Demonstrate mature motor patterns in simple combinations, e.g. dribbling a ball while running

 

• Demonstrate smooth transitions between sequential motor skills, e.g. running into a jump

PHYSICAL EDUCATION continued 2006-2008

 

• Exhibit the ability to adapt and adjust movement skills to uncomplicated, yet changing, environmental conditions and expectations, e.g. tossing a ball to a moving partner, rising and sinking while twisting, using different rhythms

 

• Demonstrate control in traveling activities (e.g. skipping, hopping, running) and weight bearing and balance activities on a variety of body parts

 

• Identify the critical element/s (technique/s) of basic movement patterns

 

• Apply movement concepts to a variety of basic skills

 

• Use feedback to improve performance

 

Lifestyle and Fitness

 

• Experience and express pleasure from participation in physical activity

 

• Identify at least one activity associated with each component of health-related physical activity, e.g. flexibility, muscular endurance, muscular strength, cardio-vascular endurance and body composition

 

• Engage in sustained physical activity that causes an increased heart rate and heavy breathing

 

• Recognize the physiological indicators that accompany moderate to vigorous physical activity, e.g. sweating, increased heart rate, heavy breathing

 

• Know how to measure heart rate

 

• Identify the components of health-related physical fitness

 

• Gain experience which will provide increased enjoyment in movement

 

• Try new activities

 

• Express feelings about and during physical activity

 

• Enjoy interaction with friends through physical activity

 

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

 

• Apply rules, procedures and safe practices with little or no reinforcement

 

• Follow directions

 

• Work cooperatively with others to complete an assigned task

 

• Play and cooperate with others regardless of personal differences, e.g. gender, ethnicity, disability

 

• Treat others with respect during play

 

• Resolve conflicts in socially acceptable ways

 

• Practice Christ-like principles in interactions with others

 

THIRD AND FOURTH GRADE

Spiritual Emphasis

 

• Recognize that God’s ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle

 

• Incorporate into one’s lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God

 

• Avoid at-risk behaviors

 

• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports

 

• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities

 

• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being

 

Movement and Motor Skills

 

• Demonstrate mature form in all locomotor patterns.

 

• Adapt a skill to the demands of a dynamic, unpredictable environment

 

• Acquire beginning skills of a few specialized movement forms

 

• Combine movement skills in applied settings

 

• Apply critical elements to improve personal performance in fundamental and selected specialized motor skills

Demonstrate control level proficiency in manipulative and non-locomotor skills, with utilization in some.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION continued 2006-2008

 

• Use critical elements of fundamental and specialized movement skills to provide feedback to others

 

• Recognize and apply concepts that impact the quality of increasingly complex movement performance

 

Lifestyle and Fitness

 

• Select and participate regularly in physical activities for the purpose of improving skill and health

 

• Identify the benefits derived from regular physical activity

 

• Identify several moderate to vigorous physical activities that provide personal pleasure

 

• Identify several activities related to each component of physical fitness

 

• Associate results of fitness testing to personal health status and ability to perform various activities

 

• Meet the health-related fitness standards as defined by a fitness testing program

 

• Experience enjoyment while participating in physical activity

 

• Enjoy practicing activities to increase skill competence

 

• Interact with friends while participating in group activities

 

• Use physical activity as a means of self-expression

 

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

 

• Follow, with few reminders, activity-specific rules, procedures and etiquette

 

• Utilize safety principles in activity situations

 

• Work cooperatively and productively with a partner or small group

 

• Work independently and on-task for a specified period of time

 

• Explore cultural/ethnic self-awareness through participation in physical activity

 

• Recognize the attributes that individuals with difference can bring to group activities

 

• Experience differences and similarities among people of different backgrounds by participating in activities of national, cultural and ethnic origins

 

FIFTH AND SIXTH GRADE

Spiritual Emphasis

 

• Recognize that God’s ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle

 

• Incorporate into one’s lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God

 

• Avoid at-risk behaviors

 

• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports

 

• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities

 

• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being

 

Movement and Motor Skills

 

• Demonstrate mature form for all basic manipulative, locomotor and non-locomotor skills

 

• Demonstrate increasing competence in more advanced specialized skills

 

• Adapt and combine skills to the demands of increasingly complex situations of selected movement forms

 

• Demonstrate beginning strategies for net and invasion games

 

• Apply previously learned knowledge, or use instruction to improve performance

 

• Apply information from a variety of internal and external sources to improve performance

 

• Identify and apply principles of practice and conditioning that enhance performance

 

• Recognize sport specific movement patterns that can be applied to games, e.g. similarity of the ready position in striking movement forms

 

• Understand terms that describe basic movement

 

• Use basic offensive and defensive strategies in non-complex settings

 

Lifestyle and Fitness

 

• Identify opportunities in the school and community for regular participation in physical activity

 

• Participate daily in some form of health-enhancing physical activity

PHYSICAL EDUCATION continued 2006-2008

 

• Discover personal interests and capabilities in regard to one’s exercise behavior

 

• Identify the critical aspects of a healthy lifestyle

 

• Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity in a variety of settings

 

• Monitor intensity of exercise

 

• Understand the reason for proper cool-down and warm-up techniques

 

• Begin to develop a strategy for the improvement of selected fitness components

 

• Work somewhat independently with minimal supervision in pursuit of personal fitness goals

 

• Meet the health-related fitness standards as defined by a standard physical fitness test, e.g. AAHPERD Physical Best, Fitnessgram, President’s Challenge

 

• Recognize physical activity as a positive opportunity for social and group interaction

 

• Experience enjoyment from participation in physical activities

 

• Use physical activity to express feelings and relieve stress

 

• Seek personally challenging experiences in physically active opportunities

 

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

 

• Participate in establishing rules, procedures and etiquette that are safe and effective for specific activity situations

 

• Work cooperatively and productively in a group to accomplish a set goal in cooperative and competitive activities

 

• Make conscious Christ-like decisions about applying rules, procedures and etiquette

 

• Utilize time effectively to complete assigned tasks

 

• Acknowledge differences in the behaviors of people of different gender, culture, ethnicity, development and disability by learning more about both similarities and differences

 

• Cooperate with disabled peers and those of different gender, race, ethnicity and religion

 

• Work cooperatively with both more and less skilled peers

 

SEVENTH AND EIGHTH GRADE

Spiritual Emphasis

 

• Recognize that God’s ideal for quality living includes a healthy lifestyle

 

• Incorporate into one’s lifestyle the principles that promote health: nutrition, exercise, water, sunlight, temperance, air, rest, trust in God

 

• Avoid at-risk behaviors

 

• Apply Christian principles in recreation and sports

 

• Achieve a balance in work and leisure; balancing physical, mental, social and spiritual activities

 

• Recognize the interaction of physical, mental and spiritual health with emotional and social well-being

 

Movement and Motor Skills

 

• Demonstrate competence in modified versions of a variety of movement forms

 

• Understand and apply more advanced movement and game strategies

 

• Identify the techniques of intermediate and advanced sport specific skills

 

• Identify the steps needed to achieve a high performance level in individual, dual and team sports

 

• Learn, apply and share advanced sport skill knowledge

 

Lifestyle and Fitness

 

• Establish personal physical activity goals

 

• Participate regularly in health-enhancing physical activities in and out of the physical education class

 

• Explore a variety of new physical activities for personal interest in and out of the physical education class

 

• Describe the relationships between a healthy lifestyle and “feeling good”

 

• Participate in a variety of health-related fitness activities in both school and non-school settings

 

• Assess physiological indicators of exercise during and after physical activity

 

• Learn and apply basic principles of training to improve physical fitness

 

• Begin to develop personal fitness goals independently

PHYSICAL EDUCATION continued 2006-2008

 

• Meet the health-related fitness standards as defined by available fitness tests, e.g. AAPHERD Physical Best, Fitnessgram, President’s Challenge

 

• Enjoy participation in physical activity

 

• Recognize the social benefits of participation in physical activity

 

• Try new and challenging activities

 

• Recognize physical activity as a vehicle for self-expression

 

Sportsmanship and Appropriate Behaviors

 

• Apply God’s help in resisting the influence of peer pressure

 

• Solve problems by analyzing causes and potential solutions

 

• Analyze potential consequences when confronted with true competition

 

• Work cooperatively with a group to achieve group goals in competitive as well as cooperative settings

 

• Recognize the role of sport, games and recreation

 

• Identify behaviors that are supportive and inclusive as well as behaviors that are exclusionary in physical activity settings

 

• Willingly join others of diverse cultures, religions, ethnicity, physical abilities and races during physical activity