GRADE 1 PHYSICAL EDUCATION REQUIRED CURRICULUM

Grade 1

The purpose of physical education shall be to maximize each student's potential through the acquisition of knowledge, skills and attitudes that will transfer to a healthy lifestyle.

 

LEARNER OUTCOMES. The student will:

 

1. Develop perceptual motor efficiency.

A. Developmental movement skills

_____ 1. Demonstrate movements in regards to levels, speed, time, force and space.

_____ 2. Experience unilateral and bilateral movements.

B. Fundamental locomotor movements

1. Demonstrate the proper technique of:

_____galloping _____sliding _____leaping _____skipping

C. Fundamental nonlocomotor movements

1. Demonstrate the proper technique of:

_____ jumping jacks

 

2. Explore movements through rhythm and dance.

_____ A. Demonstrate the ability to start and stop as the rhythm dictates.

_____ B. Demonstrate rhythmic locomotor/manipulative movements.

_____ C. Demonstrate creative movements to a poem or short story.

 

3. Move safely and efficiently through space, being aware of self, others in indoor and outdoor environments.

_____ A. Demonstrate proper rolling: log, side, fwd./bwd. roll on incline.

_____ B. Identify and use a variety of relationships with objects (e.g., over/under, behind, alongside, through).

_____ C. Use equipment and space safely and properly indoors and out.

_____ D. Demonstrate safe, efficient movement through multi-task obstacle course.

 

4. Develop manipulative movement skills: eye-hand and eye-foot coordination.

_____ A. Demonstrate catching in place various types and sizes of balls with the hands independent of the body

_____ B. Demonstrate striking skills using hand or hand-held object

_____ C. Demonstrate bouncing and catching the ball with two hands

_____ D. Demonstrate kicking a stationary ball with the dominant foot

 

5. Increase muscular strength, cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, body awareness and agility through fitness and lifelong recreation/leisure activities.

A. Participate in fitness testing

_____Cardiorespiratory (distance run)
_____Flexibility (sit and reach)
_____Muscular Endurance (sit ups)
_____Muscular Strength (pull ups)
_____Agility

 

_____ B. Use the decision making process to introduce personal fitness awareness.

 

6. Develop a positive self concept, respect for self and others and positive social and interpersonal skills.

_____ A. Participate positively in an activity that requires cooperation.

_____ B. Demonstrate positive ways to respond to conflict.

_____ C. Use the decision-making process for making social decisions.