Grade 1 PE CA Core Standards

Identify and demonstrate effective practices for working with a group without interfering with others.

Identify and demonstrate the attributes of an effective partner in physical activity.

Group Dynamics

Invite others to use equipment or apparatus before repeating a turn.

Demonstrate the characteristics of sharing and cooperation in physical activity.

Social Interaction

Identify and demonstrate acceptable responses to challenges, successes, and failures in physical activity.

Participate willingly in new physical activities.

Self-Responsibility

Students demonstrate and utilize knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity.

Identify the body components (e.g., bones, muscles, organs, fat, and other tissues).

Body Composition

Diagram how flexible muscles allow more range of motion in physical activity

Explain that the proper body position while stretching and strengthening will help prevent injury.

Flexibility

Discuss how prolonged physical activity increases endurance, allowing movement to occur for longer periods of time.

Explain that strengthening muscles will help prevent injury and that strong muscles will produce more force.

Muscular Strength/Endurance

Describe the role of blood in transporting oxygen from the lungs.

Identify physical activities that cause the heart to beat faster.

Explain that increasing the heart rate during physical activity strengthens the heart muscle.

Recognize that the heart is the most important muscle in the body and is approximately the size of a fist.

Aerobic Capacity

Explain that nutritious food provides energy for alertness and mental concentration.

Explain the importance of drinking water during and after physical activity.

Identify enjoyable and challenging physical activities that one can do for increasing periods of time without stopping.

Fitness Concepts

Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Identify and use two indicators of increased capacity for vigorous physical activity to measure a change in activity levels.

Assessment

Sustain continuous movement for increasing periods of time while participating in moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Body Composition

Stretch arms, shoulders, back, and legs without hyperflexing or hyperextending the joints.

Flexibility

Travel hand-over-hand along a horizontal ladder or hang from an overhead bar.

Move from a sitting to a standing position and from a lying to a sitting position without using arms to brace oneself while on the floor.

Demonstrate, for increasing periods of time, a "v" sit position, a push-up position with arms extended, and a squat position.

Muscular Strength/Endurance

Participate three to four times each week, for increasing periods of time, in moderate to vigorous physical activities that increase breathing and heart rate.

Aerobic Capacity

Participate in physical activities that are enjoyable and challenging.

Fitness Concepts

Students assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.

Determine and analyze how much force is needed to move the ball forward while dribbling with the hand and with the foot.

Identify the location of the contact point to strike an object upward.

Identify the placement of the nonkicking foot when kicking with a smooth, running approach

Demonstrate and explain how to reduce the impact force while catching an object.

Describe the proper hand and finger position for catching a ball.

Explain that the point of release influences the direction of a tossed object and of a thrown object.

Explain that the nonthrowing arm and hand provide balance and can influence the direction a tossed object and a thrown object travel.

Explain that in the underhand throw, the position of the fingers at the moment of release can influence the direction a tossed object and a thrown object travel.

Identify examples of underhand and overhand movement patterns.

Manipulative Skills

Distinguish between a jog and a run, a hop and a jump, and a gallop and a slide and explain the key differences and similarities in those movements.

Locomotor Movement

Identify the base of support of balanced objects.

Body Management

Identify people/objects that are within personal space and within boundaries.

Identify the right and left sides of the body and movement from right to left and left to right.

Movement Concepts

Students demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.

Create or imitate movement in response to rhythms and music.

Rhythmic Skills

Dribble a ball continuously with one hand.

Dribble a ball in a forward direction, using the inside of the foot.

Strike a balloon upward continuously, using a large, short-handled paddle.

Strike a balloon upward continuously, using arms, hands, and feet.

Kick a stationary ball, using a smooth, continuous running approach.

Kick a rolled ball from a stationary position.

Catch a self-bounced ball.

Catch a self-tossed ball.

Catch, showing proper form, a gently thrown ball.

Demonstrate the two-handed overhead (throw) pattern.

Demonstrate the overhand movement (throw) pattern.

Demonstrate the underhand movement (throw) pattern.

Manipulative Skills

Jump a swinging rope held by others.

Land on both feet after taking off on one foot and on both feet.

Roll smoothly in a forward direction, without stopping or hesitating, emphasizing a rounded form.

Locomotor Movement

Balance oneself, demonstrating momentary stillness, in symmetrical and asymmetrical shapes using body parts other than both feet as a base of support.

Body Management

Demonstrate the difference between slow and fast, heavy and light, and hard and soft while moving.

Change direction from forward and back and right and left in response to tempos, rhythms, and signals while walking, running, hopping, and jumping (i.e., locomotor skills).

Change speeds in response to tempos, rhythms, and signals while traveling in straight, curved, and zigzag pathways, using the following locomotor movements: walking, running, leaping, hopping, jumping, galloping, sliding, and skipping.

Travel over, under, in front of, behind, and through objects and over, under, in front of, and behind partners, using locomotor skills.

Demonstrate an awareness of personal space, general space, and boundaries while moving in different directions and at high, medium, and low levels in space.

Movement Concepts

Students demonstrate the motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.