Colorado Academic Standards Online
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clear Content Area: Physical Education - 2019/2024 // Grade Level: Kindergarten // Standard Category: All Standards Categories
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Kindergarten, Standard 1. Movement Competence and Understanding
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Prepared Graduates:
- 1. Demonstrate competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Demonstrate body and spatial awareness through movement.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Travel within a large group without bumping into others or falling while using a variety of locomotor skills.
- Demonstrate contrasts between slow and fast speeds while using locomotor skills.
- Travel in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways.
- Move in opposition and alternately.
- Move synchronously with others.
- Participate in chase-and-flee activities that include various spatial relationships.
- Jump over a stationary rope several times in succession using forward-and-back and side-to-side movement patterns.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate in games that require movement as a group. (Civic/Interpersonal Skill: Collaboration/Teamwork)
- Travel successfully and safely in a variety of activities with a large group of friends and family members such as to the movies or a county fair. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness)
- Create letters of the alphabet using their arms, legs, and torso. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Critical Thinking)
- Follow a rhythmic pattern when jumping rope with friends. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Collaboration/Teamwork)
Inquiry Questions:
- When is moving at a fast speed safer, and when is moving at a slow speed safer?
- Which animals use the same movements?
- When moving in a group, how do you keep from bumping into each other?
- Why is it easier to move in the same direction in which a group is moving than to move against the group?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Individuals who learn to move safely, effectively, and efficiently and feel comfortable and confident in the performance of motor skills are more likely to participate in health-enhancing forms of physical activity throughout life.
- Spatial awareness is critical for success in any movement-based activity.
- Individuals who learn the benefits of motor skills are more likely to participate in health-enhancing forms of physical activity throughout life.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 2. Apply movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics to learning and performing physical activities.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Locate and move the major parts of the body.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Move specified body parts in response to a variety of sensory cues such as auditory or visual.
- Identify body planes such as front, back, and side.
- Create shapes at high, medium, and low levels by using hands, arms, torso, feet, and legs in a variety of combinations.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Being aware of specific body parts helps body and spatial awareness. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness)
- Identify body parts correctly. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness)
- Identify the front, back, and side of the body. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness)
Inquiry Questions:
- Which body parts are unable to move?
- Why do we walk on two feet?
- Which are stronger, arms or legs? Why?
- What in their arms and legs helps people to move?
- When would it be important to be able to change directions quickly?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Understanding the important relationship between the brain and its impact on physical performance and academic learning is integral in the development of the whole child.
- The brain helps the body to learn how to move.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Kindergarten, Standard 2. Physical and Personal Wellness
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Participate in and understand the benefits of regular physical activity.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Understand that physical activity increases the heart rate, making the heart stronger.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify the heart rate as an indicator of physical activity.
- Sustain physical activity for short periods of time.
- Identify activities that will increase the heart rate.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Identify technology that will allow heart rate monitoring and checking. (Professional Skills: Use Information and Communication Technology)
Inquiry Questions:
- Which activities can you do for the longest time? Shortest time?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- The heart is the most important muscle in the body.
- Exercise directly influences heart rate and overall health and fitness.
- Taking responsibility for one's own health is an essential step toward developing and maintaining a healthy, active life.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Kindergarten, Standard 3. Social Emotional Wellness
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Prepared Graduates:
- 5. Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Demonstrate respect for self, others, and equipment.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Demonstrate the characteristics of sharing.
- Identify feelings that result from participation in physical activity.
- Participate as a leader and follower.
- Help to manage equipment.
- Play without interfering with others.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Recognize when leading is necessary and when following is necessary. (Professional Skills: Leadership)
- Recognize that sharing is an important part of working and playing with others. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Collaboration/Teamwork)
- Recognize that taking care of equipment such as toys is an important responsibility. (Personal Skills: Initiative/Self-Direction)
Inquiry Questions:
- Why is sharing sometimes difficult?
- Would you rather be a leader or a follower? Why?
- What would equipment look like if we didn't take care of it?
- How does participating with others in physical activity make you feel?
- Why is it important to take care of equipment?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Physical education provides opportunities to reinforce healthy social and emotional behaviors.
- Physical education provides opportunities to participate in different roles.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 5. Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Demonstrate the ability to follow directions.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Start and stop on an auditory and visual signal.
- Follow a simple series of instructions for an activity.
- Speak at appropriate times.
- Follow established class protocols.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Follow established rules when engaging in physical activity in settings such as the community pool or public playground. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
- Identify traffic rules that they see on the street. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Civic Engagement)
Inquiry Questions:
- Why is it important to follow directions when participating in physical education?
- How is playing "red light, green light" similar to crossing the street?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Respect for and commitment to rules is an underlying foundation of game play.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Kindergarten, Standard 4. Prevention and Risk Management
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Prepared Graduates:
- 6. Apply personal safety knowledge and skills to prevent and treat injury.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Apply safe practices, rules, and procedures.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Demonstrate safety awareness when using materials.
- Participate in activity without colliding into other students, objects, and surroundings.
- Identify proper footwear for physical education.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate safely in a wide range of physical activities. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness, Initiative/Self Direction)
- Visit a shoe store to identify proper footwear. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Character)
- Observe people crossing a street to see how they are aware of their physical space and do not bump into each other. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness, Initiative/Self Direction)
Inquiry Questions:
- What's the value of having special footwear for physical education?
- Why should shoes be tied tight?
- Why should exercise equipment be put away after it is used?
- Why is it important to not bump into others?
- What can you do to keep from bumping into others?
- How should your body look when you are paying attention to where you are going?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Paying attention to safety guidelines can prevent injuries.
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