| | This course is intended to help students meet or exceed grade 2 physical education content standards 1–5 and the corresponding performance standards 1.1–5.7.
Movement Focus
- Movement concepts: open space; speed; reduction of impact force.
- Body management: transfer weight; balance on ground and objects; different types of rolls; base of support; hand or foot preference.
- Locomotor movement: proper form for jumping, skipping and leaping; even and uneven locomotor movements.
- Manipulative skills: hand and foot-dribbling; catching; throwing and rolling for distance; kicking a rolled ball; striking skills; jumping a turned rope.
- Rhythmic skills: transition between even and uneven locomotor skills; simple folk or ribbon routines alone and with a partner.
Fitness Focus
- Fitness concepts: fuel requirements during activity; role of moderate to vigorous physical activity; activity outside of school; body temperature and blood volume; effect of fuel use during physical activity.
- Aerobic capacity: participate 3-4 times per week in moderate to vigorous physical activities that increase breathing and heart rate; function of heart during rest and activity; relationship of heart and lungs; heart rate before, during and after activity.
- Muscular strength/endurance: muscular endurance and efficiency in abdominal, oblique, upper body and lower body muscles.
- Flexibility: muscle identification; proper stretching form and purpose.
- Body composition: increasing moderate to vigorous activity; density and weight of bones, muscles, organs and fat.
- Assessment: improvements in individual fitness levels.
Social Focus
- Self-responsibility: varying the group setting; behavior responsibility.
- Social interaction: acknowledgement of peers during activity; encouragement, respect; problem solving; positive feedback to peers.
- Group dynamics: positive participation in cooperative activities.
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