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clear Content Area: Physical Education - 2019/2024 // Grade Level: Fifth Grade // Standard Category: All Standards Categories
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fifth 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. Demonstrate mature form for all basic locomotor, non-locomotor, manipulative, and rhythmic skills.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Throw and catch an object demonstrating both accuracy and force.
- Punt a ball dropped from the hands at a target.
- Dribble a ball (by hand or foot) while preventing another person from stealing the ball.
- Volley an object continuously with a partner.
- Strike an object consecutively in a competitive or cooperative game.
- Demonstrate correct steps and patterns for dance. (e.g., square, folk, modern, contemporary).
- Perform a short or long rope jump routine with a partner or small group.
- Develop and refine a gymnastics or creative dance sequence, and demonstrate smooth transitions.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate successfully in activities utilizing manipulatives. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving)
- Utilize a combination of skills to demonstrate self-expression and creativity. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
- Analyze the basic locomotor, non-locomotor, and rhythmic shifts of a social dance. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Analyze the basic locomotor, non-locomotor, and rhythmic shifts of people playing in a public park. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
Inquiry Questions:
- Will understanding these skills allow for participation in other activities later in life?
- How could one perform a jump routine to different types of music?
- Why does one need to know a variety of dances?
- What can dance teach one about other sports?
- How can one create a gymnastics routine without moving from one place to another?
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.
- Individuals who are more skillful are more likely to participate in physical activity over a lifetime.
- The ability to dance can be an advantage in a variety of social situations.
- Motor skills and movement patterns appear in a wide variety of physical activities.
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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:
2. Demonstrate understanding of how to combine and apply movement concepts and principles to learn and develop motor skills.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Use basic understanding of the knowledge of strategies in activity settings such as moving to open space to receive a pass or intercepting an object.
- Analyze and correct errors in movement patterns, and provide and use feedback from a peer or instruction technology.
- Develop a cooperative movement game that uses locomotor skills, object manipulation, and an offensive strategy, and teach the game to another person.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Teach family members how to play a game that uses locomotor skills. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
- Utilize the internet to study strategies of activities, games, or sports. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
Inquiry Questions:
- What are some activities that require the combination of skills?
- How can one create a game that uses different striking skills?
- How can one get better at a skill without physically practicing?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Individuals who learn to move safely, effectively, and efficiently will feel comfortable and confident 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:
3. Understand why feedback can improve performance.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Analyze and correct errors in throw, catch, hand dribble, foot dribble, striking a ball, and volley, and demonstrate control and accuracy.
- Analyze and correct errors in non-locomotor and locomotor movements.
- Analyze and use basic offensive and defensive strategies, and apply rules in modified games and activities.
- Analyze and demonstrate a variety of social, folk, square, modern, jazz, or creative dance.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Analyze their own and others' movements while playing pick-up sport games such as basketball to develop their own skills. (Personal Skills: Self-Awareness)
- Exhibit confidence in organizing or joining a variety of games that demonstrates an understanding of offensive and defensive strategies. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Informed Risk Taking)
Inquiry Questions:
- Which skills can one take from other activities that will allow one to become better in your selected activity?
- How do offensive strategies improve scoring opportunities?
- How do defensive strategies help limit scoring opportunities?
- What are the different tools one can use to analyze performance? What are the advantages of using one tool over another?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Knowing and understanding 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 analysis and feedback of performance accelerates skill development.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fifth 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. Demonstrate understanding of skill-related components of fitness and how they affect physical performance.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify and demonstrate exercises that are used to develop agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, or speed.
- Create a plan using the six skill-related components to improve performance in a chosen activity.
- Differentiate between health related components and skill related components.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate effectively on a sport team by implementing training methods consistent with the requirements of the activity (Civic/Interpersonal: Collaboration/Teamwork)
- Identify examples of components of skill-related fitness that are used in outdoor activities such as climbing trees. (Personal Skills: Initiative/Self-Direction)
- Utilize technology such as a personal computer to monitor an exercise program. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Communication)
Inquiry Questions:
- Which component of skill-related fitness do you like the most?
- Which component of skill-related fitness is most important, and why?
- In which component of skill-related fitness are you the strongest? How can you continue to improve in this component? How can you improve in the other components?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Knowledge of skill-related components can influence fitness and physical performance.
- Different physical activities require different combinations of agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, and speed.
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Prepared Graduates:
- 4. Participate in and understand the benefits of regular physical activity.
Grade Level Expectation:
2. Set personal goals for improving health-related fitness.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Explain how the five health-related fitness components (body composition, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular endurance, and muscular strength) affect ability to participate normally in everyday activities.
- Compare results of fitness testing to personal health status and ability to perform various activities.
- Develop short term and long-term fitness goals.
- Compare individual physical fitness goals with research-based standards for good health.
- Identify activities that will help to improve cardio-respiratory, muscular endurance, muscular strength, flexibility, and body composition.
- Accurately take a pulse at rest and during exercise.
- Identify the components of the FITT principle (frequency, intensity, time, type).
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Record and analyze fitness test results using fitness testing software. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Create a chart of all physical activities, listing the amounts of time for each. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Inquiry/Analysis)
- Utilize the internet to research national standards for good health and compare personal wellness to national trends. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Global/Cultural Awareness)
Inquiry Questions:
- What is the role of fitness testing in overall wellness?
- How does physical fitness impact successful participation in a variety of activities?
- How would you go about improving each component of physical fitness?
- Why would you want to change the results of your physical assessment?
- Which component do you need to improve? Want to improve?
- Why is it important to have flexible muscles?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Participation in moderate to vigorous daily activity is important to lifelong health.
- It is important to choose activities that will enhance wellness.
- Setting and working toward fitness goals is critical for positive behavior change.
- Everyone can set personal fitness goals for themselves.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fifth 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. Identify personal activity interests and abilities and take responsibility for individual and team performance.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Accept responsibility for one's own performance without blaming others.
- Respond to winning and losing in socially appropriate ways.
- Develop confidence in self and others in a physical activity setting.
- Try new activities and connect hard work and practice to success.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Cope with adversity in a healthy manner such as talking with a parent about a problem. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
- Utilize a social networking website to congratulate an opponent after competition. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Character)
Inquiry Questions:
- Why do professional athletes sometimes blame others for their performance?
- Why do fans get so upset when their favorite team loses a big game, such as the Super Bowl or NBA Championship?
- What is the difference between being confident and being arrogant?
- What can losing a game or activity allow one to learn that winning can't?
- Why do teams sometimes shake hands with the opposition after competing?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Participation in physical activity promotes positive emotional well-being.
- Winning is not the most important thing in playing sports.
- Losing can be an opportunity to learn.
- How one behaves when one wins or loses influences people's perception of him or her.
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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. Work cooperatively and productively in a group.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Establish and accomplish goals in both cooperative and competitive activities.
- Identify and define the role of each participant in a group physical activity.
- Analyze possible solutions to a problem in a group physical activity, and come to a consensus on the best solution.
- Demonstrate the ability to resolve conflicts with peers.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Identify and utilize the strengths of group members in a work setting. (Civic/Interpersonal Skills: Collaboration)
- Create a video demonstrating conflict resolution through role play. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
- Determine the best path up a climbing wall while visiting a rock climbing gym with friends. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Critical Thinking/Problem Solving)
Inquiry Questions:
- What might one do to interact with a friend who refuses to participate in a group problem-solving activity?
- How might one include a friend with a disability into the activity?
- Do cooperative and competitive activities have similar or different goals?
- How might one recommend resolving a dispute between two peers in a game?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Participation in competitive sports and games requires cooperation.
- Cooperation between teammates is important for solving complex problems.
- Cooperation in physical activities prepares individuals to learn how to cooperate in other activities.
Physical Education - 2019-2024
Fifth 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. Implement safety procedures in the utilization of space and equipment.
Evidence Outcomes:
Students Can:
- Identify and participate in safe warm-up and cool-down activities.
- Review components of safe participation and what constitutes a safe environment.
- Follow the rules of activities to maintain safe playing conditions.
- Describe safe and unsafe practices for a variety of physical activities.
Academic Contexts and Connections:
Colorado Essential Skills and Real-World Application:
- Participate safely in a variety of physical activities. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
- Utilizing a computer, individuals create a safety information sheet for a favorite physical activity. (Entrepreneurial Skills: Creativity/Innovation)
- Learn safe practices for a variety of outdoor activities. (Personal Skills: Personal Responsibility)
Inquiry Questions:
- How will a proper warm-up and cool-down decrease injury risk?
- What are ways to avoid injury in basketball? In softball or baseball? In soccer?
Components of a Physically Literate Individual:
- Participating in a variety of physical activities requires attention to safety.
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