Physical Education National Standards:
1. Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
2. Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.
3. Participates regularly in physical activity.
4. Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
5. Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
Physical Education Massachusetts Standards:
1. Apply movement concepts including direction, balance, level (high, low), pathway (straight, curve, zig-zag), range (expansive, narrow), and force absorption, to
extend versatility and improve physical performance.
2. Use a variety of manipulative (throwing, catching, striking), locomotor (walking, running, skipping, hopping, galloping, sliding, jumping, leaping), and non-locomotor
(twisting, balancing, extending) skills as individuals and in teams.
3. Perform rhythm routines, including dancing, to demonstrate fundamental movement skills.
4. Identify physical and physiological changes that result from participation in a variety of physical activities.
5. Explain the benefits of physical fitness to good health and increased active lifestyle.
6. Identify the major behaviors that contribute to wellness (nutrition, exercise, hygiene, rest, and recreation)
7. Demonstrates responsible personal and social conduct used in the physical activity setting.
Health Standards:
1. Growth and Development (muscles and bones)
2. Nutrition (key nutrients, balance, variety, and moderation)
3. Mental Health (Feeling and Emotions, Leadership and Teamwork)
4. Interpersonal Relationships (Verbal and non-verbal Communication, Friendships and Peer Relationships)
5. Disease Prevention & Control (hand washing and hygiene)
6. Safety & Injury Prevention
1. Demonstrates competency in motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
2. Demonstrates understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.
3. Participates regularly in physical activity.
4. Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.
5. Exhibits responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
Physical Education Massachusetts Standards:
1. Apply movement concepts including direction, balance, level (high, low), pathway (straight, curve, zig-zag), range (expansive, narrow), and force absorption, to
extend versatility and improve physical performance.
2. Use a variety of manipulative (throwing, catching, striking), locomotor (walking, running, skipping, hopping, galloping, sliding, jumping, leaping), and non-locomotor
(twisting, balancing, extending) skills as individuals and in teams.
3. Perform rhythm routines, including dancing, to demonstrate fundamental movement skills.
4. Identify physical and physiological changes that result from participation in a variety of physical activities.
5. Explain the benefits of physical fitness to good health and increased active lifestyle.
6. Identify the major behaviors that contribute to wellness (nutrition, exercise, hygiene, rest, and recreation)
7. Demonstrates responsible personal and social conduct used in the physical activity setting.
Health Standards:
1. Growth and Development (muscles and bones)
2. Nutrition (key nutrients, balance, variety, and moderation)
3. Mental Health (Feeling and Emotions, Leadership and Teamwork)
4. Interpersonal Relationships (Verbal and non-verbal Communication, Friendships and Peer Relationships)
5. Disease Prevention & Control (hand washing and hygiene)
6. Safety & Injury Prevention