Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

• 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.

• How does movement, muscle stretching, doing sit ups, push ups and pull ups increase body strength and overall health?

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

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

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

• How do class rules and team rules help make competitive sports and 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: Loco motor, non-loco motor, manipulative skill development and movement
District Indicator: Repeatedly performs loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Standard 2: Exhibits components of physical fitness
District Indicator: Demonstrates cardiovascular endurance
District Indicator: Demonstrates flexibility
District Indicator: Demonstrates muscular strength and endurance
Essential Skills
Demonstrates loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Demonstrates cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and flexibility.
Participates in a standardized fitness test.
Cardiovascular - Participated in games that increase breathing, heart rate, sustains activity for increasingly longer periods of time.