St. Maria Goretti
Kindergarten through 8th Grade Physical Education
Content
Standard:
Students
at St. Maria Goretti Catholic Parish School will enjoy and
exhibit a physically active lifestyle, demonstrate competency
in many forms of movement and proficiency in some, will
apply concepts and priciples of movement to skill development,
and understand that physcial activity has components of
strength, endurance, and flexibility.
In
Physical Education, students will:
-Demonstrate
motor skills necessary to participate in a wide variety
of physical activities
-Understand
the link between physical activity, good health and learning
-Understand
that physical activity is fun and benefits well-being
-Explain
the relationship between resting pulse and increase heart
rate with exercise
-Demonstrate
an understanding of basic first aid
-Select
and participate regularly in physical activities for the
purpose of improving skill and maintaining good health
-Understand
what equipment is necessary for safe participation and
be able to explain the rationale for its design
-Move
and participate in class for 30-45 minutes twice a week
-Understand
sport concepts as a participant and spectator
-Demonstrate
good sportsmanship and respect for opponents and officials
By
the end of Grade 4, students will:
-Demonstrate
progress toward the mature form of all locomotor (movement)
patterns and selected manipulative and nonlocomotor skills
such as throwing, catching, and kicking
-Adapt
a physical skill to the demans of a dynamic, unpredictable
environment such as balancing with control on a variety
of objects (balance beam, stilts, crash mat, large apparatus,
scooters, micro bikes, tinikling)
-Acquire
beginning skills in specialized movement forms such as
dribbling and passing a basketball to a moving receiver
or jumping and landing for height/distance using mature
forms
-Apply
combined movement skills in a variety of settings
By the end of Grade 8, students will:
-Demonstrate
competence in numerous versions of lifetime sportgs (tennis,
basketball, hockey, gymnastics, softball, volleyball,
track and field, football, soccer)
-Develop strategies for competitive games using basic
offensive and defensive strategies in team sports
-Demonstrate increasing competence in more advance specialized
physical skills, including officiating and coaching
-Choose to participate in organized or recreational sports
-Explore how people can enjoy an activitiy if they are
not gifted athletes
