Physical Education Grades 1-2
SAMPLE CORECONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTEDACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS | |||||
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Motor Skills | |||||||
Demonstrate skills of chasing, fleeing, and dodging to avoid others. | • Tag games (e.g., freeze tag, color tag) | √ | √ | ||||
Combine locomotor patterns in time to music (rhythms). | • Gymnastics/tumbling | √ | √ | ||||
Demonstrate control (symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes) while balancing on a variety of body parts. | • Scoops and balls • Aerobics | √ | √ | ||||
Catch and throw an object with a partner. | • Lead-up games, soccer, basketball, volleyball, softball, hockey | √ | √ | √ | |||
Strike a ball repeatedly with a paddle. | • Racquet/paddles and balloons | √ | √ | ||||
Volley an object, maintaining control with hands, arms, or racquet. | √ | √ | |||||
Application | |||||||
Identify four characteristics of a mature throw. | • Obstacle course | √ | √ | ||||
Use concepts of space awareness and movement control to run, hop, and skip in different ways in a large group without bumping into others or falling. | • Partner activities: kicking, catching, and throwing • Scooters | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
Identify and demonstrate the major characteristics of mature movement (e.g., walking, running, hopping). | √ | √ |
Physical Education - Grades: First-Second
SAMPLE CORECONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTEDACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS | |||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | ||
Active Living | |||||||
Seek participation in gross motor activity of a moderate to vigorous nature. | • Out of school/community *activities (e.g., biking, hiking, organized sports) | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
Participate in a wide variety of *activities that involve locomotion (e.g., skip, hop, jump, gallop, leap, slide, run, walk), non-locomotion (e.g., twist, turn, balance), and manipulation of objects outside of physical education class (e.g., dribble, jump rope). | • Sharing activities students have participated in outside of class | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
Complete physical education activity “homework” assignments. | √ | √ | √ | ||||
Physical Fitness | |||||||
Engage in appropriate activity that results in the development of muscular strength. | • Tension bands/tubing (strength building) | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
Sustain activity for longer periods of time while participating in chasing, fleeing, or traveling activities in physical education and/or on the playground. | • Maintaining aerobic activity for a specified time | √ | √ | √ | √ | √ | |
Identify changes in the body during vigorous physical activity. | • Description of changes in body after vigorous activity by student | √ | √ | ||||
Support body weight for climbing, hanging, and momentarily taking weight on hands. | √ | √ | √ | ||||
Move each joint through a full range of motion. | √ | √ | √ |
*See list of “outside of school” activities in appendix.
SAMPLE CORECONTENT/SKILLS | SUGGESTEDACTIVITIES | NATIONAL PE STANDARDS | |||||
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Personal and Social Skills | |||||||
Use equipment and space safely and properly. | • Red light/green light | √ | √ | ||||
Respond positively to reminder about a rule infraction. | • Fitness stations for small and large groups | √ | √ | ||||
Practice specific skills as assigned until the teacher signals the end of practice. | • “Stop and Listen” signal game | √ | √ | √ | √ | ||
Stop activity immediately at the signal to do so. | • Tumbling | √ | |||||
Report the results of work honestly. | • Student modified games | √ | |||||
Invite a peer to take his/her turn at a piece of apparatus before repeating a turn. | • Scooters | √ | √ | ||||
Assist partner by sharing observations about skill performance during practice. | • Problem solving games and activities | √ | √ | ||||
Value of Exercise | |||||||
Appreciate the benefits that accompany cooperation and sharing. | • “Outside the gym” (e.g., swimming, hiking) | √ | √ | ||||
Display consideration of others in physical activity settings. | • Project Adventure activities | √ | √ | ||||
Demonstrate the elements of socially acceptable conflict resolution. | √ | ||||||
Accept the feelings resulting from challenges, successes, and failures in physical activity. | √ | √ | |||||
Try new activities. | √ |