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clear Content Area: Physical Education - 2019/2024 // Grade Level: Fourth Grade // Standard Category: All Standards Categories
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fourth Grade, 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. Identify the major characteristics of mature locomotor, non-locomotor, manipulative, and rhythmic skills.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Dribble and pass an object to a moving receiver.
- Throw, catch, and kick to self or a partner.
- Jump and land for height and distance using mature form.
- Use a variety of manipulatives to throw to a moving target, making the needed adjustments for skill improvement.
- Create a rhythmic routine, including gymnastics, creative dance, or jump rope.
- Demonstrate balances with control on a variety of objects such as a balance board, balance beam, or skates (ice or in-line).
- Transfer weight from feet to hands at fast and slow speeds using large extensions such as mule kicks, handstands, or cartwheels.
- Distinguish and describe the similarities and differences of manipulative skills such as basketball and soccer dribbling or overhand and underhand.
- Demonstrate efficient patterns of striking with and without an implement.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate in playground or backyard games to develop locomotor, non-locomotor, manipulative, and rhythmic skills, such as catching and throwing baseballs or playing tag. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
- Participate in dances that are part of a community festival. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Civic Engagement)
- Participate successfully in balance activities. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Informed Risk Taking)
- Compare modern social dances to traditional social dances in terms of similar movement skills. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness)
- Identify the locomotor and rhythmic skills in real world applications (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness)
Inquiry Questions:
- Which is more important, accuracy or speed? Why?
- Why is it important to know traditional dances?
- How can balance skills help to prevent injuries?
- Which is harder to learn, in-line skating or ice-skating?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Skillful movers are more likely to participate successfully in physical activity over a lifetime.
- Good balance skills are important for lifelong wellness and injury prevention.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 2. Apply movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics to learning and performing physical activities.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Provide and receive feedback to and from peers using the major characteristics of mature locomotor and manipulative skills.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Use peer assessment tools to recognize and evaluate the critical elements of movement in a variety of physical activities.
- Identify critical elements of movement skills when watching a video for self or peer assessment.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Watch people performing sports to learn elements of movement for evaluating locomotor and manipulative skills. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Utilize video cameras to record elements of movement for evaluating locomotor and manipulative skills. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Ask others for advice about performance of locomotor skills when playing games. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
Inquiry Questions:
- Why is it important to know the critical elements of movement?
- Why is it important to improve physical skills?
- What can a partner tell one about one's skills that he or she cannot see oneself?
- Why is it helpful to give feedback to a peer?
- When would peer feedback be inappropriate?
- How can you give advice to a friend about how to improve at a physical activity?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- The knowledge and understanding of concepts of movement and skill mechanics improve performance in a specific skill, and provide the foundation for transfer of skills in a variety of sports and activities.
- Ongoing feedback and assessment are necessary in determining the effectiveness of personal goal-setting strategies.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fourth Grade, Standard 2. Physical and Personal Wellness
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Prepared Graduates:
- 3. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
Grade Level Expectation:
1. Explain how the health-related fitness components are used to improve physical fitness.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify and demonstrate flexibility exercises for major muscle groups.
- Identify health-related components of fitness and demonstrate an exercise that positively impacts each component.
- Measure and record personal heart rate before, during, and after moderate to vigorous exercise.
- Identify and perform specific exercises that can be done to improve the muscular strength and endurance of various muscle groups.
- Explain the benefits of having good cardiovascular endurance.
- Recognize healthy and balanced meals and snacks designed to enhance the performance of physical activities.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Understand the benefits of stretching before playing a community-organized sport. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
- Create a video demonstration of exercises for each component of health-related fitness. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
- Utilize a watch to monitor heart rate before, during, and after performing a physical activity. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Watch a video or television, and compare the way professional athletes perform stretches to the way others perform stretches. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Keep a computer log to track and analyze a daily diet. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Utilize the internet to research healthy, balanced meals. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
Inquiry Questions:
- Do different types of physical activities produce different results?
- Which health-related component do you most need to improve? Which do you want to improve?
- Which health-related component is the most important? Why?
- How will improving a component help when I participate in my favorite sport or physical activity?
- If you managed a restaurant, what foods would be on the menu? Why?
- Should children be allowed to eat whatever snacks they want? Why or why not?
- Should people eat immediately before exercising? Why or why not?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Healthy living requires knowledge of the health-related fitness components.
- The lack of knowledge regarding safety factors can adversely affect one's ability to participate in physical activity.
- Levels of exercise directly influence a person's heart rate, and overall health and fitness.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 3. Demonstrate the knowledge and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Analyze opportunities for participating in physical activity and actively engage in teacher-directed and independent activities.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Understand the importance of participation in fitness-enhancing physical activities such as gymnastic clubs, community-sponsored youth sports, or activity clubs.
- Demonstrate appropriate warm-up procedures before participation in vigorous physical activity.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Establish healthy habits for physical activity such as tracking the amount of time spent exercising daily. (Personal Skills: Initiative/Self-Direction)
- Utilize the internet to research exercise programs. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
Inquiry Questions:
- Do you prefer participating in organized group activities such as youth basketball leagues or playing in unstructured physical activities such as pick-up basketball games? Why?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- A healthy diet and exercise program provide energy for performance and successful participation in recreational and competitive activities.
- Taking responsibility for one's own health is an essential step toward developing and maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle.
- People have many options to participate in organized physical activities outside of school.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fourth Grade, 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. Assess and take responsibility for personal behavior and stress management.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Act in a safe and healthy manner when confronted with negative peer pressure during physical activity.
- Set a personal goal to improve a skill and work toward that goal.
- Describe and demonstrate responsible behavior and decision-making while participating in physical activity.
- Demonstrate respect for the person who is officiating.
- Recognize that physical activity can be used as a stress management technique.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Follow and respect established guidelines for behavior in a variety of settings. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
- Utilize a computer to keep track of personal achievements in physical activities. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
Inquiry Questions:
- How does setting goals for physical activities help one to take on personal responsibilities in school work?
- Why are officials necessary? What would be the result if there were no officials?
- What are some of the ways you have seen others treat officials?
- Why is it important to set personal goals?
- Are you going to work harder for your goals if you write them out rather than just talk about them? Why?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Taking personal responsibility for healthy behaviors is a foundation for lifetime wellness.
- Recognizing that stress is a manageable part of life is important for an individual's emotional development.
- Recognizing that performing physical activities can help to manage stress is important.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fourth Grade, 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. Demonstrate knowledge of safe practices in a physical activity setting.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Explain safety considerations prior to participation in lead-up games.
- Demonstrate the safe use of implements.
- Differentiate between safe and unsafe participation and environment.
- Display safe and responsible behavior while engaging in fitness activities.
- Develop with an instructor’s help the safety rules for physical education.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Avoid injury when using sports equipment. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
- Analyze video clips of people engaging in a physical activity to learn safe and unsafe practices. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Recognize that different physical activities have varied safe practices. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving)
Inquiry Questions:
- If a friend is engaging in unsafe behavior during recess, how would you handle it?
- How would you explain why the behavior was unsafe?
- How would your unsafe behavior affect your friends?
- Why do some sports and games have similar safety practices? Why do some sports and games have different safety practices?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Participation in physical activity requires attention to safety.
- Athletes understand that not following safe practices for sports can lead to serious personal injuries.
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