| Grade Range: |
| | 7 |
| Prerequisites: |
| | None |
| Course duration: |
| | Two semesters; 400 minutes every 10 school days |
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| Course Description: |
| | This course is intended to help students meet or exceed grade 7 physical education content standards 1–5 and the corresponding performance standards 1.1–5.5.
Movement Focus
- Manipulative skills: demonstrate mature techniques for the following patterns: overhand, sidearm, and underhand throw; catching; kicking/punting; striking; trapping; dribbling (hand and foot); and volleying.
- Rhythmic skills: perform multicultural dances.
- Combinations of movement patterns and skills: combine manipulative with locomotor and nonlocomotor skills into movement patterns; demonstrate body management and object manipulation skills for successful participation in individual/dual activities such as track and field, combative activities, and adventure/outdoor activities.
- Movement concepts: analyze movements/correct errors; use motor learning principles to support skill development; explain spin and rebound principles; understand basic offense and defense strategies.
Fitness Focus
- Assess the five health-related components of fitness using state fitness assessment tools; compare individual results; develop individual fitness goals and a one-week fitness plan; participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity; assess attainment of personal goals and make necessary adjustments; explain effects of physical activity on heart rate; relationship between physical activity and nutrition; apply principles of exercise: progression, overload, specificity.
Social Focus
- Self-responsibility: identify activity risks; accept responsibility for individual improvement.
- Social interaction: accept differences of others.
- Group dynamics: evaluate expressions of encouragement; identify role of a leader.
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| State Course Code(s): |
| | 9311 - Physical Education (Departmentalized 6-8) |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: |
| | Physical Education Model Content Standards for California Public Schools: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, California Department of Education, 2005.
Physical Education Framework for California Public Schools: Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, California Department of Education, 2009.
FITNESSGRAM/ACTIVITYGRAM Test Administration Manual, 4th ed., Cooper Institute, 2007. |