Students will have the necessary knowledge and skills to establish and maintain physical fitness, participate in physical activity, and maintain personal health.

• 1. KEY IDEA - Students will perform basic motor and manipulative skills. They will attain competency in a variety of physical activities and proficiency in a few select complex motor and sports activities. Students will design personal fitness...

  Students will perform basic motor and manipulative skills. They will attain competency in a variety of physical activities and proficiency in a few select complex motor and sports activities. Students will design personal fitness programs to improve cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, endurance, and body composition.

  PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

  Students:

  • demonstrate competency in a variety of physical activities (games, sports, exercises) that provide conditioning for each fitness area
  • know that motor skills progress in complexity and need to be used in the context of games and sports with additional environmental constraints
  • combine and integrate fundamental skills and adjust technique based on feedback, including self-assessment
  • understand the relationship between physical activity and the prevention of illness, disease, and premature death
  • develop and implement a personal fitness plan based on self-assessment and goal setting, understand physiological changes that result from training, and understand the health benefits of regular participation in activity
  • develop leadership, problem solving, cooperation, and team work by participating in group activities.

   SAMPLE TASKS

  This is evident, for example, when students:

  • throw objects for accuracy and distance to moving targets, or use a variety of strategies to gain offensive or defensive advantage in a game
  • perform motor/movement skills in a variety of structured games and sport activities requiring the integration of skills (e.g., hand or foot dribble while preventing opponent from taking ball)
  • self-analyze a skill or strategy in order to improve performance, e.g., adjusting throw using principles of rotation and force application
  • select a variety of appropriate activities to improve one or more components of health-related fitness based on a fitness assessment
  • monitor heart rate as a means for determining intensity and duration of activity
  • demonstrate correct form in various physical activities to prevent injury (e.g., weight training, lifting, and climbing)
  • analyze a partner’s performance in a movement task
  • use video taping to assist in self assessment of a skill.

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