• A complete fitness program promotes participation in grade level skills and activities that build health and wellness including cardiovascular, flexibility, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and lifetime activity.

• Good sportsmanship includes following rules of play and being responsible for yourself and the safety of others.

• We can increase our health and wellness by participating in the physical activities we lead or participate in by ourselves and with others.

• Rules help keep games and activities safe and fair.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

• Why do we have to follow the rules of etiquette for certain sports?

• How can people protect themselves from sore muscles or over use injuries from exercising? 

• Why do we have to be responsible for our own behavior?

• What is the purpose for rules of play in sports?

• How do class rules and team rules help make individual sports more enjoyable?

• Why is cooperation important in games and in life?

• How does cooperation in games impact the final outcome?

• What does good sportsmanship look like?

Standards

Standard 1: Demonstrates skills in a variety of activities
Benchmark: Movement patterns
District Indicator: Repeatedly performs skills in isolation and combination
Standard 2: Exhibits components of physical fitness
District Indicator: Demonstrates flexibility
District Indicator: Demonstrates muscular strength and endurance
 

Essential Skills/Indicators:

• Is able to grip any golf club correctly

• Can swing while transferring weight

• Can take proper stance tot the ball

• Can consistently contact the ball

• Understands the differences among drives, pitches, putts, and chips

• Can use approach shots

• Can putt

• Can play a short game

• Is able to follow golf etiquette and common courtesy

• Has learned and follows the rules on the tees and the greens and for scoring

• Understands common golf terminology, value, and history

• Has identified local areas that provide a golf experience

• Assumes responsibility for equipment and appreciates care of equipment