New Colorado P-12 Academic Standards

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Demonstrate respect for individual differences in physical activity settings

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why do some attendees at sporting events behave so badly?
2. What constitutes healthy competition?
3. What might one do if someone were being bullied because he or she showed poor physical fitness skills?
4. If peer pressure were nonexistent, how would you determine your choices of physical activity?
5. How might one peacefully resolve a dispute between friends? Between people who are not friends?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals appreciate the diversity of physical activity experiences in the broader community such as visiting a park and seeing the variety of people engaged in physical activities).
2. Individuals explain how social networking tools help to and hinder interpersonal relationships.

Nature Of:

1. Physical education can help individuals from different backgrounds to work together successfully.
2. Developing self-esteem, resiliency, tolerance, and coping skills support social and emotional health.
3. In order for all participants and spectators to experience the maximum benefit from games and sports, everyone must demonstrate knowledge and commitment to sportsmanship, rules, and safety guidelines.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Demonstrate collaboration, cooperation, and leadership skills

Inquiry Questions:

1. Is it more important to have the most-skilled players on a team, or to have a team that demonstrates teamwork? Which has more influence on the outcome of a game?
2. How do you choose to lead or follow in group settings?
3. How would a team look if all teammates' behavior were the same?
4. If you could develop the perfect team, what behaviors and traits would your players express?
5. What are some things one could do to show appreciation of opponents?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals participate effectively in groups across a variety of settings such as community-sponsored sports leagues.
2. Individuals describe how technology can aid a coach of a sport team.
3. Individuals create and follow behavior modification plans for a variety of wellness areas.
4. Individuals describe how they could use technology to create and monitor an action plan for physical activity.
5. Individuals create a document outlining proper etiquette for social networking sites.
6. Individuals react to negative events in healthy ways such as going for a walk after an argument with a friend.
7. Individuals work effectively with a wide range of personality types in a job setting.
8. Individuals use technology to show appreciation of fans, officials, and teammates. For example, they might design a website or blog.

Nature Of:

1. Participation in lifetime sports requires cooperation and leadership skills.
2. Character can be developed and supported through individual and group activities, influence of positive role models, and involvement in community service and activities.
3. Individuals can develop positive behavior patterns if they take personal responsibility for their actions.
4. Cooperation can help to solve difficult problems in groups or teams.
5. In order for all participants and spectators to experience the maximum benefit from games and sports, everyone must demonstrate knowledge and commitment to sportsmanship, rules, and safety guidelines.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

3. Demonstrate responsible behavior in group settings

Inquiry Questions:

1. How might one help a teammate with poor physical skills to be a team contributor?
2. What might one do if he or she were assigned to a team with friends whom he or she doesn't like?
3. How might one respond if friends didn't want him or her on their team?
4. How might one try to make a new team member feel welcomed to the team?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals participate as both a leader and a group member in a variety of settings such as a community-sponsored sports league.
2. Individuals describe how a social networking site could be used to include others in physical activity such as using social networking sites to organize a game.

Nature Of:

1. Respect for differences can enhance group performance.
2. Character can be developed and supported through individual and group activities, influence of positive role models, and involvement in community service and activities.
3. The development of self-esteem, resiliency, tolerance, and coping skills supports social and emotional health.
4. Individuals with different levels of physical skill can make a contribution to a group activity.
5. Physical activities can be useful tools for getting to know other people.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Develop strategies to communicate ideas and feelings

Inquiry Questions:

1. What are some ways to demonstrate cooperation without actually talking to someone?
2. How can one nonverbally communicate with teammates to ensure they feel like an important component of the team?
3. How can one communicate to others that he or she does not want to participate in an activity when confronted by peer pressure?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals work with a variety of people to accomplish group goals.
2. Individuals compare and contrast digital and face-to-face communication as a method of showing feelings or emotions.

Nature Of:

1. Communication can take many forms in physical activity settings.
2. Responsible participants demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills while participating in physical activity.
3. There are effective ways to handle peer pressure.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Demonstrate inclusiveness in and out of classroom settings

Inquiry Questions:

1. Are some physical activities better for getting people to interact with each other? Which ones?
2. What is the value of team-building activities? How can what is learned in team-building activities be applied to other settings?
3. How could schools support a physically active environment outside of physical education classes?
4. Why is it important to learn to cooperate with many types of individuals from diverse backgrounds?
5. How does increasing the number of players in a game affect the outcome?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals recognize and utilize the talents of others when solving a problem.
2. Individuals describe how technology has impacted adventure activities. For example, helicopters help people to reach remote destinations for rock climbing, hiking, and skiing.
3. Individuals understand that others of different physical skill levels can make a contribution to a group activity.
4. Individuals appreciate that physical activities can be useful tools for getting to know other people. For example, community sports leagues are used for social networking.

Nature Of:

1. Physical education is for people of all abilities.
2. Responsible participants demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills while participating in physical activity.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Recognize diverse skill performance in others and how that diversity affects game, activity, and sport participation

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why might it be difficult to be the smallest person in class? The largest?
2. What variety of modifications could be made in a game of basketball, volleyball, or other game to include others of beginning to advanced skills on the same team?
3. Why are dance and music universal forms of expression?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals work with others from a variety of cultural backgrounds in community sports leagues.
2. Individuals describe how technology could be used to track individual performance in a team sport. For example, computer spreadsheet programs can be used to keep individual statistics.
3. Individuals appreciate that others have different levels of skills and physical abilities.

Nature Of:

1. Physical activity experiences are enriched by the diversity of the participants.
2. Individuals of different physical skill levels can make a contribution to a group activity.
3. All participants in a group activity can make a contribution and have responsibilities.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Work cooperatively and productively in a group

Inquiry Questions:

1. What might one do to interact with a friend who refuses to participate in a group problem-solving activity?
2. How might one include a friend with a disability into the activity?
3. Do cooperative and competitive activities have similar or different goals?
4. How might one recommend resolving a dispute between two peers in a game?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals identify and utilize the strengths of group members in a work setting.
2. Individuals make a video demonstrating conflict resolution through role play.
3. Individuals visit a rock-climbing gym with friends and determine the best path up a climbing wall.

Nature Of:

1. Participation in competitive sports and games requires cooperation.
2. Cooperation between teammates is important for solving complex problems.
3. Cooperation in physical activities prepares individuals to learn how to cooperate in other activities.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Assess and take responsibility for personal behavior and stress management

Inquiry Questions:

1. How does setting goals for physical activities help one to take on personal responsibilities in school work?
2. Why are officials necessary? What would be the result if there were no officials?
3. What are some of the ways you have seen others treat officials?
4. Why is it important to set personal goals?
5. Are you going to work harder for your goals if you write them out rather than just talk about them? Why?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals follow and respect established guidelines for behavior in a variety of settings.
2. Individuals use a computer to keep track of personal achievements in physical activities such as running or doing push-ups and pull-ups.

Nature Of:

1. Taking personal responsibility for healthy behaviors is a foundation for lifetime wellness.
2. Recognizing that stress is a manageable part of life is important for an individual's emotional development.
3. Recognizing that performing physical activities can help to manage stress is important.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Choose to participate cooperatively and productively in group and individual physical activities

Inquiry Questions:

1. How might one interact with a friend who dominates the discussion in a cooperative problem-solving activity?
2. What are ways to include others who are physically unable to participate due to a disability or injury?
3. Does your view of talking to officials change when you are an official yourself?
4. Why is resolving conflicts more important than winning a game?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals solve problems or help to negotiate a conflict among friends.
2. Individuals participate in a blog with friends, demonstrating positive social behaviors.
3. Individuals interact with people such as officials, teachers, and coaches who are in leadership roles in a sport or game setting.

Nature Of:

1. Successful participation in physical activity requires communication and cooperation.
2. Individuals with different physical skill levels can participate and contribute to activities.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

3. Identify personal activity interests and abilities

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why do professional athletes sometimes blame others for their performance?
2. Why do citizens of a city sometimes riot or vandalize things when their team wins the World Series or the NBA Championship?
3. What is the difference between being confident and being cocky?
4. What can losing a game or activity allow one to learn that winning can't?
5. Why do teams sometimes shake hands with the opposition after competing?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals can cope with adversity in a healthy manner such as talking with a parent about a problem.
2. Individuals can use a social networking website to congratulate an opponent after competition.

Nature Of:

1. Participation in physical activity promotes positive emotional well-being.
2. Winning is not the most important thing in playing sports.
3. Losing can be an opportunity to learn.
4. How one behaves when one wins or loses influences people's perception of him or her.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Demonstrate positive social behaviors during class

Inquiry Questions:

1. How should you congratulate someone when he or she wins, and you lose?
2. When would peer feedback be inappropriate?
3. How can you give advice to a friend about how to improve at a physical activity?
4. How does your body feel when you achieve success while working with others?
5. What is your role in maintaining a positive learning environment that everyone can enjoy?
6. Why is it important to be polite when you lose?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals acknowledge the efforts of others when they have done something well such as sending a group email acknowledging the efforts of someone to other people.
2. Individuals describe how they could use technology to assist a friend in learning a skill.
3. Individuals are gracious winners and losers. For example, they shake the hand of a winning opponent.
4. Individuals initiate social interaction with someone they don't know in a social situation such as a school dance.
5. Individuals send an electronic invitation to a friend asking him or her to join them in a physical activity such as playing Frisbee.

Nature Of:

1. Physical education provides opportunities to reinforce positive social behaviors.
2. Successful participation in physical activity requires cooperation with others.
3. Group physical activities should be fun for everyone participating.
4. How you behave when you win or lose influences how people look at you.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Demonstrate positive and helpful behavior and words toward other students

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why should you be polite when playing in a group physical activity?
2. Why is it important to have good behavior, especially when in a group setting?
3. Is it easier or harder to work with peers to complete a task? Explain.
4. How can you encourage someone who is shy to participate in a physical activity?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals encourage friends or peers.
2. Individuals brainstorm the forms of technology that have been used to make physical activity more fun.

Nature Of:

1. Successful participation in physical activity requires cooperation with others.
2. Group physical activities should be fun for everyone participating.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Work independently and with others to complete work

Inquiry Questions:

1. What is the most important quality of a good partner, and why?
2. What makes you a good partner?
3. What is different about working with someone rather than working by yourself?
4. What does "help" look like? Express "help" without using words.

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals share limited resources in a way that allows everyone access.
2. Individuals describe how to share technology with a partner.
3. Individuals include everyone in an activity such as inviting friends to participate in a game on the weekend.
4. Individuals can describe a tool that requires more than one person to operate such as a sailboat.

Nature Of:

1. Physical education provides opportunities to practice and reinforce positive social behaviors.
2. Physical education provides opportunities to demonstrate responsible social behavior.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Follow the rules of an activity

Inquiry Questions:

1. Which rules for good behavior would you most want to see in your physical education class, and why?
2. Why is it important to follow the rules?
3. What would happen if there were no rules when playing a game?
4. What game has too many rules?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals use technology to create a rules sheet for a game.
2. Individuals create games and physical activities that have rules.

Nature Of:

1. Respect for and commitment to rules is an underlying foundation of game play.
2. Rules are important for enjoying game play.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

1. Demonstrate respect for self, others, and equipment

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why is sharing sometimes difficult?
2. Would you rather be a leader or a follower? Why?
3. What would equipment look like if we didn't take care of it? How would that change the games?
4. How does playing "Simon says" make you feel?
5. Why is it important to take care of equipment?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals recognize when leading is necessary and when following is necessary such as playing at a friend's house.
2. Individuals use technology to demonstrate feelings associated with physical activity.
3. Individuals recognize that taking care of equipment such as toys is an important responsibility.

Nature Of:

1. Physical education provides opportunities to reinforce healthy social and emotional behaviors.
2. Physical education provides opportunities to participate in different roles.

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• Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings

Concepts and skills students master:

2. Demonstrate the ability to follow directions

Inquiry Questions:

1. Why is it important to follow directions when participating in physical education?
2. How is playing "red light, green light" similar to crossing the street?

Relevance & Application:

1. Individuals follow established rules when engaging in physical activity in settings such as the community pool public playground.
2. Individuals identify traffic rules that they see on the street.

Nature Of:

1. Respect for and commitment to rules is an underlying foundation of game play.