Elementary School Content Emphasis for Each Grade & Standard
Standard 9: Motor skills
K-2
♣ Demonstrate mature form in all locomotor patterns and the ability to vary and combine locomotor patterns with a smooth transition.
♣ Demonstrate a clear body shape in weight-bearing and balance activities
♣ Perform basic manipulative activities on the move (e.g. dribbling, catching, and throwing)
♣ Adapt basic manipulative patterns to a partner
♣ Create expressive movement sequences with and without a defined rhythm.
standards:
http://www.thenewpe.com/curriculum/curr-models.htm
State of Tennessee-
http://www.tennessee.gov/education/ci/health_pe/index.shtml
the new ELEMENTARY physical education
Standards by grade level
Standard 9: Motor skills
K-2
♣ Demonstrate mature form in all locomotor patterns and the ability to vary and combine locomotor patterns with a smooth transition.(walk,run,skip,hop,leap,gallop,slide)
♣ Demonstrate a clear body shape in weight-bearing and balance activities
♣ Perform basic manipulative activities on the move (e.g. dribbling, catching, and throwing)
♣ Adapt basic manipulative patterns to and from a partner (throwing and catching)
♣ Create expressive movement sequences with and without a defined rhythm.
3-4
♣ Demonstrate mature form in selected manipulative patterns
♣ Adapt a skill to dynamic and unpredictable environments
♣ Acquire a few specialized sport skills
♣ Combine movement skills in applied settings
5-6
♣ Demonstrate mature form in throwing, catching, and striking patterns
♣ Combine manipulative patterns of specialized sport skills.
♣ Demonstrate basic strategies for net and invasion games
♣ Acquire the specialized pattern of one individualized and one lifetime activity
Standard 10: Concepts, principles, and strategies of movement
K-2
♣ Identify the critical elements of basic movement patterns
♣ Use feedback to improve performance
♣ Apply movement concepts to a variety of basic skills
♣ Understand why people perform at different abilities and attribute those differences to practice and experience
3-4
♣ Use critical elements of a skill to improve performance and provide feedback to others
♣ Apply simple learning and biomechanical principles in learning
5-6
♣ Identify and apply principles of practice and conditioning to improve performance
♣ Use basic offense and defense tactics of invasion and net activities in noncomplex settings
Standard 11: Participate regular in physical activity
K-2
♣ Engage in moderate to vigorous activity outside of PE class on a daily basis
♣ Willing participate in new activities
3-4
♣ Participate in organized activity and sport programs provided by the school and community
♣ Identify an activity associate with each of the components of fitness
♣ Monitor participation in physical activity for a period of time
♣ Identify several vigorous activities that provide pleasure
5-6
♣ Identify community resources for participation in physical activity
♣ Participate regular in physical activity outside of school
♣ Monitor participation in physical activity and set reasonable goals for improvement
Standard 12: Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
K-2
♣ Recognize the physiological indicators of moderate to vigorous physical activity
♣ Sustain a level of moderate to vigorous physical activity for at least five minutes.
3-4
♣ Identify the components of health-related fitness and one activity related to the development of each of the components
♣ Meet the health-related fitness standard as defined by Fitnessgram
♣ Identify the benefits of participation in physical activity on a regular basis
5-6
♣ Meet the health-related fitness standard as defined by Fitnessgram
♣ Identify personal strengths and weaknesses related to fitness
♣ Identify what can be done to improve each of the fitness components in terms of physical activities as well as exercises
Standard 13: Responsible personal and social behavior
K-2
♣ Apply rules, procedures, and safe practices with little or no reinforcement
♣ Follow directions
♣ Support and work cooperatively with another on a task
♣ Demonstrate consideration of others
3-4
♣ Work independently on a task without reinforcement
♣ Work cooperatively and productively with a partner or small group
♣ Willingly participate with others who m ay be different from themselves
5-6
♣ Work cooperatively and productively in competitive and cooperative settings
♣ Utilize time productively to complete assigned tasks
♣ Identify rules, procedures, and safe practices for a variety of activity settings
♣ Work cooperatively with more and less skilled participants
♣ Identify what they need to practice and practice it independently
Standard 14: Values physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction
K-2
♣ Willingly try new activities
♣ Indicate they enjoy an activity
♣ Feel good about participation in physical activity
♣ Use physical activity as a means of self-expression
3-4
♣ Choose a challenging activity and get better at it
♣ Identify the activities that are personally most enjoyable
♣ Identify the relationship between success at an activity and enjoyment
♣ Use physical activity as a means of self-expression
5-6
♣ Identify different benefits from different activities
♣ Identify the activities that are personally most enjoyable
♣ Seeks challenges in physical activity
♣ Use physical activity as a means of self-expression
source- AAHPER-2011