Physical Education - 6th Grade
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Course Description

 

Core Standards of the Course

Standard 1
Students will value physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction.

Objective 1
Emphasize how physical activity provides opportunity for enjoyment and self-expression.

1. Explore a number of new and different activities that bring personal enjoyment.
   
2. Explain how physical activity can provide enjoyable social interaction.
   
3. Participate in activities that are personally challenging.
   
4. Celebrate successes and achievements of self and others.
   

Objective 2
Demonstrate appropriate risk taking.

1. Identify and express feelings resulting from challenges.
   
2. Explain appropriate and inappropriate risks based on experience and ability.
   
3. Describe the importance of sun protection and how it may prevent melanoma.
   
4. Demonstrate a basic understanding of first aid principles.
   
5. Demonstrate persistence in activities when unsuccessful in prior attempts.
   

Standard 2
Students will exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.

Objective 1
responsible personal behavior in physical activity settings.

1. Consider the feelings of all participants in managing conflict situations.
   
2. Participate with and show respect for students of similar and different skill levels.
   
3. Demonstrate responsible behavior in using time, applying rules, and following through with decisions.
   
4. Demonstrate the ability to lead and to follow.
   
5. Initiate skill practice to improve performance.
   

Objective 2
Follow rules and procedures while participating in activities.

1. Identify safety rules and the value of following them in activity settings.
   
2. Participate in a group/team to accomplish a set goal (e.g., identify key elements that help groups work effectively, perform assigned responsibilities, evaluate progress/success of group activity).
   
3. Follow game rules and accept and respect officials' decisions, whether the officials are students, teachers or outside-of-school personnel.
   
4. Demonstrate support for others (e.g., willingly use skills to help others, provide constructive feedback for skill development, and encourage participation).
   
5. Demonstrate good sportsmanship (e.g., acknowledge others' efforts, honestly report activity results, and use appropriate language).
   

Standard 3
Students will understand and apply the health-enhancing benefits of physical activity and proper nutrition.

Objective 1
Demonstrate and apply knowledge of physical fitness.

1. Describe and apply basic principles of training (e.g., FITT (Frequency, Intensity, Time, Type), overload, progression).
   
2. Monitor personal fitness data to evaluate physical fitness (e.g., FitnessGram, President's Challenge, Physical Best).
   
3. Utilize fitness assessment results to set fitness goals, design a fitness plan, monitor progress, and make modifications.
   
4. Demonstrate the use of resting and working pulse rates to evaluate intensity of workouts and the benefits derived from understanding the changing heart rates.
   
5. Demonstrate individual and team strategies in game settings.
   

Objective 2
Describe how proper nutrition affects health and physical fitness.

1. Identify strategies to manage weight through proper nutrition and exercise.
   
2. Describe how people have different needs at different ages for weight management.
   
3. Describe the "calories in/calories out" principle of weight control.
   
4. Analyze and compare personal food intake to Food Pyramid recommendations.
   

Objective 3
Participate in a variety of moderate to vigorous activities.

1. Identify and demonstrate proper warm-up, conditioning, and cool-down techniques.
   
2. Participate in games, sport and recreational pursuits both in and outside of school based on individual interests and capabilities.
   
3. Participate in activities designed to improve all elements of physical fitness (e.g., cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, body composition).
   
4. Participate in some form of health-enhancing physical activity each day.
   

Standard 4
Students will demonstrate competency in knowledge and movement skills needed to perform a variety of physical education activities.

Objective 1
Apply movement principles and skills in small group activities.

1. Describe how general movement skills can be translated to a number of different activities.
   
2. Demonstrate movement sequences to rhythm (e.g., square dance, line dance, folk dances from foreign countries, Lummi sticks, tinikling, rope jumping).
   
3. Demonstrate the use of patterns and combinations of movement and non-movement activities into repeatable sequences.
   
4. Analyze movement patterns and make personal adjustments to improve performance.
   

Objective 2
Demonstrate a variety of skills in sports and game activities.

1. Identify and move to an open space in a game situation (e.g., move and create an open space to receive a pass, maintain appropriate distance from another player in a passing or guarding situation, and pass to a moving teammate).
   
2. Demonstrate various striking skills in game situations.
   
3. Throw and catch or kick and receive a ball consistently while being guarded by opponents.
   
4. Demonstrate the ability to play assigned positions in various game situations (e.g., back-row player in volleyball, guard in basketball, first base in softball, goalie in floor hockey).
   
5. Demonstrate basic offensive and defensive skills in a modified version of team sports (e.g., two-on-two basketball, three-on-three soccer, four-on-four flag football).
   

 

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