District 11 Educational Support Services
Health & Physical Education


 Grade 9 -12, Karate

Course Number: PE.KARATE


Overview                                                                              

Karate is much more than mere self-defense techniques. Karate is an activity that strives to develop the inner qualities of a human being through strenuous training in a martial art. This unit’s introduction to karate is designed to help build your self-esteem and confidence, discipline and self-respect in a safe environment. You will be introduced to Karate as an individual sport and as a martial art. You will learn the history of Karate while understanding its role in today’s society, its ideologies, and its benefits to you now and in the future. You will learn basic physical skills, develop flexibility and improve your conditioning as you learn.

Prerequisite: None
Course Length: 2   Period Length: 0   Grade Level:  9-12  Credit per Semester: 1
Additional Credit Information: Credit per Semester: 1.0 (Physical Education or Elective)

For Teachers
No Prerequisite
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Standards

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.

Lessons