Physical Education


Curriculum: Physical Education


Program Goals and Content Standards

Goal 1: Students will demonstrate competence in selected motor skills.
Content Standards:
  1. Students will demonstrate competence in selected fundamental locomotor skills
  2. Students will demonstrate competence in selected fundamental object control skills
  3. Students will demonstrate competence in selected postural and non-locomotor skills
  4. Students will demonstrate competence in selected fundamental rhythmical skills
Goal 2: Students will achieve and maintain health-related standards on selected physical fitness indicators.
Content Standards:
  1. Students will develop and maintain healthy levels of cardio-respiratory endurance.
  2. Students will develop and maintain healthy levels of muscular strength and endurance.
  3. Students will develop and maintain healthy levels of flexibility of selected joints of the body.
  4. Students will develop and maintain healthy levels of body composition.
Goal 3: Students will demonstrate competence on cognitive concepts necessary to successfully manage one¹s own health-related physical activities over their lifetime.
Content Standards:
  1. Students will apply the concepts of movement to effectively learn and engage in movement activities.
  2. Students will explain and apply the steps to learning motor skills to facilitate the acquisition of unfamiliar skills throughout life.
  3. Students will demonstrate knowledge of the potential beneficial and detrimental affects of living an active lifestyle.
  4. Students will demonstrate the knowledge of how to design, implement and evaluate a personal activity program that maximizes their opportunity to obtain the benefits of living an active lifestyle.
Goal 4: Students will exhibit appropriate personal-social-attitudinal character traits while participating in physical activity and to assign value to living an active lifestyle.
Content Standards:
  1. Students will demonstrate appropriate behavior on selected personal character traits and social skills that commonly occur in physical activity settings.
  2. Students will assign value to physical activity and its contribution to lifelong health and well-being.
Goal 5: Students will demonstrate competence in selected health-enhancing lifelong leisure activities.
Content Standards:
  1. Students will demonstrate competence in activities related to developing and maintaining healthy levels of fitness.