| | This course is intended to help students meet or exceed grade 3 physical education content standards 1–5 and the corresponding performance standards 1.1–5.6.
Movement Focus
- Movement concepts: create personal space during chasing and fleeing activities and in changing environments.
- Body management: inverted balances, forward roll, straddle roll.
- Locomotor movement: jump rope forward and backward.
- Manipulative skills: catch an object while moving; use correct form for throwing and catching; hand dribble; kick to a partner; strike a ball with a paddle or racket; foot dribble with direction change; roll for accuracy; balance while manipulating an object.
- Rhythmic skills: line, circle, and folk dance with a partner.
Fitness Focus
- Fitness concepts: warm-ups and cool-downs; correct body positions for pulling and pushing; reaction to moderate to vigorous physical activity; components of physical fitness; adaptation of increasing workloads; energy expenditure; need for oxygen and fluids during muscle contractions.
- Aerobic capacity: increase activity time by sustaining movement that elevates breathing and heart rate.
- Muscular strength/endurance: increase muscular endurance and efficiency in abdominal, oblique, upper body and lower body muscles; benefits of a strong heart; muscle identification; injury resolution; proper lifting techniques.
- Flexibility: proper stretching form; injury prevention in stretching.
- Body composition: sustain continuous movement for increased periods of time; calorie consumption.
- Assessment: measure improvement in moderate to vigorous physical activities.
Social Focus
- Self-responsibility: set personal goals; data collection of skill mastery; importance of safety procedures.
- Social interaction: coach others in a positive way; show respect for individual differences.
- Group dynamics: work in pairs or small groups.
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