Grade 3 PE CA Core Standards

Throw and catch an object with a partner, increasing the distance from the partner and maintaining an accurate throw that can be easily caught.

Explain and demonstrate the correct hand position when catching a ball above the head, below the waist, near the middle of the body, and away from the body.

Explain the purpose of warming up before physical activity and cooling down after physical activity.

Aerobic Capacity

Muscular Strength/Endurance

Assessment

Foot-dribble a ball continuously while traveling and changing direction.

Perform increasing numbers of each: abdominal curl-ups, oblique curl-ups on each side, modified push-ups or traditional push-ups with hands on a bench, forward lunges, side lunges, and triceps push-ups from a chair.

Fitness Concepts

Kick a ball to a stationary partner, using the inside of the foot.

Body Composition

Roll a ball for accuracy toward a target.

Demonstrate warm-up and cool-down exercises.

Name and locate the major muscles of the body.

Describe and demonstrate how to relieve a muscle cramp.

Use appropriate cues for movement and positive words of encouragement while coaching others in physical activities.

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

Manipulative Skills

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

Collect data and record progress toward mastery of a motor skill.

Flexibility

Locomotor Movement

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

Hand-dribble a ball continuously while moving around obstacles.

Discuss the need for oxygen and fuel to be available during ongoing muscle contraction so that heat and waste products are removed.

Identify flexibility exercises that are not safe for the joints and should be avoided.

Fitness Concepts

Explain that a stronger heart muscle can pump more blood with each beat.

Muscular Strength/Endurance

List the benefits of following and the risks of not following safety procedures and rules associated with physical activity.

Strike a ball continuously upward, using a paddle or racket.

Differentiate the body's ability to consume calories and burn fat during periods of inactivity and during long periods of moderate physical activity.

Perform a forward roll.

Describe the role of muscle strength and proper lifting in the prevention of back injuries.

Catch, while traveling, an object thrown by a stationary partner.

Rhythmic Skills

Group Dynamics

Identify which muscles are used in performing muscular endurance activities.

Demonstrate how to lift and carry objects correctly.

Compare and contrast folk dances, line dances, and circle dances.

Work in pairs or small groups to achieve an agreed-upon goal.

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

Throw a ball, using the overhand movement pattern with increasing accuracy.

Flexibility

Set a personal goal to improve a motor skill and work toward that goal in nonschool time.

Perform a line dance, a circle dance, and a folk dance with a partner.

Define the terms folk dance, line dance, and circle dance.

Demonstrate respect for individual differences in physical abilities.

Manipulative Skills

Hold for an increasing period of time basic stretches for hips, shoulders, hamstrings, quadriceps, triceps, biceps, back, and neck.

Describe and record the changes in heart rate before, during, and after physical activity.

List and define the components of physical fitness.

Climb a vertical pole or rope.

Explain the difference between throwing to a stationary partner and throwing to a moving partner.

Perform a straddle roll.

Participate three to four days each week, for increasing periods of time, in continuous moderate to vigorous physical activities that require sustained movement of the large-muscle groups to increase breathing and heart rate.

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

Measure and record improvement in individual fitness activities.

Self-Responsibility

Balance while traveling and manipulating an object on a ground-level balance beam.

Describe how changing speed and changing direction can allow one person to move away from another.

Body Management

Identify the differences between dribbling a ball (with the hand and the foot, separately) while moving forward and when changing direction.

Movement Concepts

Explain that fluid needs are linked to energy expenditure.

Perform an inverted balance (tripod) by evenly distributing weight on body parts.

Rhythmic Skills

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

Aerobic Capacity

Identify the key elements for increasing accuracy in rolling a ball and throwing a ball.

Describe the relationship between the heart, lungs, muscles, blood, and oxygen during physical activity.

Recognize that the body will adapt to increased workloads.

Chase, flee, and move away from others in a constantly changing environment.

Body Composition

Jump continuously a forward-turning rope and a backward-turning rope.

Explain why a particular stretch is appropriate preparation for a particular physical activity.

Movement Concepts

Identify the body's normal reactions to moderate to vigorous physical activity.

Social Interaction