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K-3 STUDENT CONTENT STANDARDS

 

Components of Fitness

  1. Develop and demonstrate an awareness of aerobic endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility as it relates to their health and fitness so they can perform to health related standards.
  2. Understand how height and weight will effect their body composition as it relates to their total fitness, health, and performance in physical activity.
  3. Understand the components of fitness.

Activities & Safety

  1. Develop physical skills (locomotor, nonlocomotor, and manipulative) that contribute to health and fitness.
  2. Develop fitness awareness and vocabulary while participating in basic skills, lifetime activities, and team or individual sports.
  3. Demonstrate rules and proper safety procedures while participating in health related fitness activities.
  4. Introduce and understand fitness goal setting as it relates to the fitness test.
  5. Begin to understand and demonstrate sportsmanship, teamwork, leadership, enjoyment, and fun in managing social and emotional well being.

Nutrition and Diet

  1. Introduce the six food groups.
  2. Introduce the food guide pyramid.
  3. Introduce the six food nutrients of water, fats, proteins, carbohydrates, vitamins, and minerals.
  4. Introduce health risk factors.
  5. Introduce consumer knowledge.

Social & Emotional

  1. Students will demonstrate enjoyment of fitness and health classes while participating in a wide variety of activities such as small sided games, lifetime activities, and successful movement experiences.
  2. By setting realistic attainable personal goals, students will learn to evaluate and challenge themselves toward personal improvement.
  3. The students will demonstrate good leadership by setting good examples, modeling appropriate behavior, and following rules with positive encouragement for others.
  4. Students will demonstrate the importance of fair play, sharing, caring, empathy, and being respectful while following established rules.
  5. Students will demonstrate teamwork by participating in cooperative activities, developing partners skills, showing respect, and accepting diversity with a variety of cultures.

Technology

  1. Introduce and learn basic use of available fitness technology to monitor personal fitness levels.