Course Purposes - Overview | Health/Physical Education

Course Purpose

Kindergarten	Students will demonstrate body control and spatial awareness in individual and group activities.
1st Grade	Students will demonstrate fundamental locomotor movements and model safe, responsible choices.
2nd Grade	Students will engage in skill and fitness-related activities to increase cardiovascular endurance, strength, and flexibility.
3rd Grade	Students will participate in moderate to vigorous individual and group activities using complex movement patterns while demonstrating sportsmanship.
4th Grade	Students will use complex movement patterns to better understand offensive and defensive strategies, and determine how outside factors can impact personal health.
5th Grade	Students will set individual fitness goals, and use positive decision making skills to understand how outside factors can affect their personal health.
6th Grade	Students will measure and critique individual fitness levels and goals, and analyze how outside factors can improve or hinder individual wellness.
7th Grade	Students will measure personal fitness data, and research how nutrition and external factors affect our ability to attain individual goals.
8th Grade	Students will analyze how physical activity and personal health impact lifelong fitness and well-being.