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Motor Skills |
Demonstrate competency for the five swimming strokes. | • 50 yards nonstop swim demonstrating a specific stroke | √ | √ | | | | |
Demonstrate weight lifting activities using proper biomechanics and safety procedures. | • Performing lifts using proper skills | √ | √ | | | | |
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENTS
- Aquatic rubric
- Videotape assessment for the clean and jerk with student comments on muscle alignment, weaknesses, and strengths
SAMPLE CORE CONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS |
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Application |
Explain the overload principle and design a personal fitness program where this principle is in operation. | • Fitness journal (9 weeks) | | √ | | | | √ |
Design a long-term plan for self-improvement in fitness. | • Computer program: update information to a personal file | √ | √ | | | | √ |
Describe and demonstrate the significance of some basic physiological principles to the development of a personal fitness program. | | | √ | | | | √ |
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENTS
- Teacher critique and review of student journal
- Evaluation of computerized program for content, goal achievement, and personal fitness
SAMPLE CORE CONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS |
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Motor Skills |
Participate regularly in physical activities that contribute to the attainment and maintenance of personal physical activity goals. | • Competitive, recreational, or leisure sports program for an entire season | √ | √ | √ | | | √ |
Understand the ways in which personal characteristics, performance styles, and activity preferences will change over the life span. | • Varied *activities outside the classroom (e.g., snow boarding, skiing, hiking) | | √ | | | | √ |
Feel empowered to maintain and improve physical fitness, motor skills, and knowledge about physical activity. | • Documentation of performance level, personal feelings, and activities that were enjoyed while participating • Development of a goal – oriented plan to incorporate an aerobic activity into a personal lifetime health behavior plan | | | √ | √ | | √ |
*See list of “outside of school” activities in appendix
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENTS
- Personal plans for improvement in skill acquisition, strength improvement, and future plans to participate in an activity throughout life
- Collage depicting how personal choices and goals may change over time with description of how age affects personal choices
- Progress monitoring
SAMPLE CORE CONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS |
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Physical Fitness |
Monitor exercise and other behaviors related to health-related fitness. | • Record of resting heart rate before getting out of bed, again after participating in anaerobic activity for thirty minutes, and five minutes following exercise | | | √ | √ | √ | √ |
Maintain appropriate levels of cardiovascular and respiratory efficiency, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition necessary for a healthful lifestyle. | • Participation in a variety of health enhancing physical activities in both school and non-school settings | √ | √ | √ | | | |
Use the results of fitness assessments to guide changes in personal fitness program. | • Designing and implementing a fitness program to work on a specific goal | √ | √ | | | | √ |
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENTS
- Formal test (e.g., fitnessgram physical fitness test)
- Student project
- Teacher observation – observational record
SAMPLE CORE CONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS |
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Personal and Social Skills |
Encourage others to apply appropriate etiquette in all physical activity settings. | • Observation of a variety of competitive activities throughout the community | | | | | √ | |
Diffuse potential conflicts by communicating with other participants. | • Officiating a community sports activity (e.g., Little League baseball, Junior hockey, soccer) | | | | | √ | √ |
Create a safe environment for own skill practice including the safety of others. | • Assessment of safety protocol and procedures for emergency care in a variety of physical activity settings | | | | | | |
Display a willingness to experiment with the sport and activity of other cultures. | • Cultural games such as Native Youth Olympics, cricket, or lacrosse | | | | | √ | √ |
Develop strategies for including persons of diverse background and abilities in physical activities. | • Game/activity to include persons of diverse background and abilities | | | | | √ | √ |
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENTS
- Group discussion about sportsmanship and proper etiquette
- Performance evaluations as an official, and submitting to the class a list of ideas for conflict resolution and participant sportsmanship
- List of potentially dangerous situations parents should evaluate before enrolling their child in certain activities
- Designing a personal fitness class that is appropriate for different age groups, cultural diversity, and which meets community needs
- Modifying a cultural game to accommodate athletes who are limited to a wheelchair, noting accessibility and rule changes that would be necessary to ensure the safety for those involved
SAMPLE CORE CONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTED ACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS |
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Value of Exercise |
Enjoy learning new activities and challenges. | • Variety of new games and activities | | | | | √ | √ |
Understand the value of social interaction during activity. | • Community soccer league program | | | | | | √ |
SUGGESTED ASSESSMENTS
- Promotional presentation of new activity to the class with teacher/student evaluation
- Comparison of fitness components necessary to participate in a league as a recreational vs. competitive athlete