| | This course is intended to help students meet or exceed grade 1 physical education content standards 1–5 and the corresponding performance standards 1.1–5.6.
Movement Focus
- Movement concepts: spatial and body awareness while employing a variety of locomotor skills, relationships, levels, directions, pathways, speeds, tempos, and force.
- Body management: balance using symmetrical, asymmetrical shapes and on a variety of body parts.
- Locomotor movement: roll forward; employ different take-offs and landings; jump a swinging rope; distinguish between different locomotor movements.
- Manipulative skills: demonstrate and explain different throwing and catching patterns; kicking; striking; dribbling using hands and feet.
- Rhythmic skills: movement in response to music.
Fitness Focus
- Fitness concepts: participate in and identify physical activities that are enjoyable and challenging; importance of water and nutritious food during physical activity.
- Aerobic capacity: moderate to vigorous physical activity; function, changes and location of heart and lungs during activity.
- Muscular strength/endurance: upper body strength; importance of muscular strength; relationship of prolonged physical activity to endurance.
- Flexibility: stretch without hyper-flexing or extending; proper position while stretching; range of motion.
- Body composition: sustain continuous movement for increased periods of time; body components.
- Assessment: indicators of increased capacity; measure the change in activity levels.
Social Focus
- Self-responsibility: willingness to participate; acceptable responses to challenges.
- Social interaction: sharing; cooperation; invitation skills.
- Group dynamics: aspects of an effective partner and effective practices for working with a group.
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