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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.

• We can measure and monitor their muscle growth and endurance in a variety of ways.

• Rules help keep games and activities safe and fair.

• Responsible participants demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills while participating in physical activity.

• Responsible participants understand the need to take care of all equipment and facilities.

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 from sore muscles or injury from over exercising? 

• How can people measure and monitor the endurance and strength of their major muscles?

• 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 are consequences for not following rules necessary?

• Why are honesty, responsibility, sportsmanship, confidence, courtesy, respect, judgment, integrity, perseverance, and being a good team mate important skills in P.E. and in life? 

• How does knowledge of the purpose and care of equipment help create responsible physical education participants? 

• Where does one’s personal space end and someone else’s space begin?

• Why is cooperation important in games and in life?
  How does cooperation in games impact the final outcome?

• What does good sportsmanship look like?

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Standards
Highest Frequency Standards High Frequency Standards, Other Standards & E-skills

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
Essential Skills: Demonstrates loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Standard 2:  Exhibits components of physical fitness
Essential Skills: 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.
Standard 3: Participates in guided and self directed activities
Benchmark Activities: Demonstrates responsibility while participating in guided and self directed activities
District Indicator: Participates in a variety of activities
Follows written, oral, and demonstration directions
Standard 4: Demonstrates Knowledge in Team and Individual Sports
Benchmark Activities: Demonstrates & models behavior
District Indicator: Follows physical education class rules
Demonstrates knowledge through assessment
Essential Skills: Follows class rules, game rules and demonstrates safety at all times
Being able to differentiate reasons for specific rules
Standard 5: Demonstrates the knowledge necessary to participate in physical activity; safe use and respect of equipment
Benchmark Activities: Demonstrates & practices self control
District Indicator: Takes turns using equipment properly and safely
Essential Skills: Follows activity specific rules with few reminders, activity and takes turns with equipment
Standard 6:  Students recognize the role of physical activity and its unique contribution to their social, emotional, mental and physical development
Benchmark Activities: Collaborative team work - sportsmanship
District Indicator: Works cooperatively with others and exhibits spatial awareness
Essential Skills: Accepts appropriate behavior for winning and losing, honoring personal boundaries, accepts decisions of teammates and officials, encourage teammates and others

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District 11 Diamond Units/Lessons Overview - includes information about the purpose, goals and structure of these sample instructional units:

Grades 6, 7, 8 - Academic Word List

Language Arts Connections

• Action Rap - (1-2 class periods) Students create and perform a rap that demonstrates action verbs.
• Ask Me Anything! - (2 class periods) Students review literacy skills learned throughout the year in this trivia game that combines a variety of questions with fitness challenges.
• Join the "Hall of Fitness" - (1 class period a week for six weeks) Students learn about the history, culture and diversity of six cities home to NFL teams.
• Parts of Speech Obstacle Course - (2 class periods) Students design a Parts of Speech Obstacle Course.
• Spell Your Way to Fitness - (1 class period) Teams try to beat the clock with a packet of scrambled letters that spell out "physical education class"

Math Connections

• Graphing Your Goals - (4 class periods over six weeks) Students will perform several physical activities and set goals based on measures of central tendency.
• Heart Monitor Math - (1-2 class periods) Student groups monitor their hearts and determine which exercise is best for them.
• NFL Divisibility Dance - (1 or more class periods) Students use football scores from NFL games to master the divisibility rules and create a "divisibility dance"
• Pi Day - (1 class period) Students complete activities that encourage the ideas of circumference, diameter, and problem solving.
• Steps to a Healthier YOU - (1 class period) Students will determine their walking rate and put it to the test.

Physical Education

• Dash, Drop, & React - (1 class period) Students use speed, balance and coordination in a football drill.
• Don't FUMBLE with this JUMBLE - (1class period) Students work cooperatively to complete a game that combines running and memory to find their team's appropriate cards and decipher a jumbled word.
• Steppin' Across the States - (once a week) Students use pedometers to walk the equivalent of the US over the course of the school year.
• Tour de (insert school name) - (5 class periods) Students complete four stages of running various terrains and distances, and compete for the yellow jersey.
• Training Day - (1 class period) Students engage in a series of drills to learn the concept of "training"

Science Connections

• Astronaut Training - (1-3 weeks) Students learn the educational and physical requirements to become an astronaut.
• Healthy Heart Scooter Tag - (1 class period) Students play tag on scooters.
• Limiting Factors Challenge - (2 class periods) Students compete to collect the limiting factors they need to survive while avoiding predators and disease. 
• Moveable Joints Charades - (1 class period) Students engage in active games of charades to identify and learn about moveable joints.
• Striding Around the Solar System - (1class period) Students participate in a planet relay and orbit walk to learn about the planets

Social Study Connections

• Passport to America - (1-2 class periods) Students learn how the process at Ellis island worked and the importance of physical and mental health to ensure the safety of the community.
• Rhythm Nation - (1 class period) Students explore similarities and differences between cultures through music and dance.
• SBFball and the Constitution - (3 class periods) Students combine three different sports into one incorporating the principles of checks and balances.
• Traveling the Oregon Trail - (1-2 class periods) Students learn about the Oregon Trail and engage in a measured walk to determine how long it would have taken them on the trail.
• Work Out Around the World - (1 class period) Student pass a world globe ball around as music is played.

Nutrition Education

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