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/Indicators:

• Is able to throw a softball accurately a minimum of 60 feet

• Is able to catch a softball thrown to a target

• Can run the bases

• Can stop ground balls

• Can catch pop-ups within a four-step radius

• Has learned and can assume responsibility for one defensive position

• Has learned softball rules

• Hs learned the batter’s stance and how to swing and meet the ball

• Can identify the strike zone

• Is able to exhibit good sporting behavior

• Can play without endangering the safety of others