Grade 4 PE CA Core Standards

Accept an opponent's outstanding skill, use of strategies, or ability to work effectively with teammates as a challenge in physical activities.

Group Dynamics

Include others in physical activities and respect individual differences in skill and motivation.

Social Interaction

Respond to winning and losing with dignity and respect.

Accept responsibility for one's own performance without blaming others.

Collect data and record progress toward attainment of a personal fitness goal.

Set a personal goal to improve an area of health-related physical fitness and work toward that goal in nonschool time.

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.

Explain the effect of regular, sustained physical activity on the body's ability to consume calories and burn fat for energy.

Body Composition

Explain the value of increased flexibility when participating in physical activity.

Flexibility

Describe the correct form to push and pull heavy objects.

Recognize how strengthening major muscles can improve performance at work and play.

Explain why muscular endurance or muscular strength activities do not increase muscle mass in preadolescent children.

Describe the difference between muscular strength and muscular endurance.

Muscular Strength/Endurance

Determine the intensity of personal physical activity by using the concept of perceived exertion.

Identify two characteristics of physical activity that build aerobic capacity

Explain why a strong heart is able to return quickly to its resting rate after exertion.

Calculate personal heart rate per minute by recording heartbeats for ten-second intervals and 15-second intervals.

Aerobic Capacity

Explain the purpose of warm-up and cool-down periods.

Explain why the body uses a higher percentage of carbohydrates for fuel during high-intensity physical activity and a higher percentage of fat for fuel during low-intensity physical activity.

Explain why the body uses a higher percentage of carbohydrates for fuel during high-intensity ph

Explain why the body needs water before, during, and after physical activity.

Identify healthful choices for meals and snacks that help improve physical performance.

Set personal short-term goals for aerobic endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility and monitor progress by measuring and recording personal fitness scores.

Explain the principles of physical fitness: frequency, intensity, time, and type.

Identify the correct body alignment for performing lower-body stretches.

Fitness Concepts

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

Meet minimum requirements for health-related physical fitness, using scientifically based health-related physical fitness assessments.

Measure and record changes in aerobic capacity and muscular strength, using scientifically based health-related physical fitness assessments.

Assessment

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

Body Composition

Demonstrate basic stretches using proper alignment for hamstrings, quadriceps, hip flexors, triceps, back, shoulders, hip adductors, hip abductors, and calves.

Flexibility

Hang by the hands from an overhead bar with the hips and knees each at a 90-degree angle.

Perform increasing numbers of each: abdominal curl-ups, oblique curl-ups on each side, modified push-ups or traditional push-ups, and triceps push-ups.

Muscular Strength/Endurance

Participate three to four days each week, for increasing periods of time, in continuous moderate to vigorous physical activities at the appropriate intensity to increase aerobic capacity.

Aerobic Capacity

Demonstrate the correct body position for pushing and pulling large objects.

Participate in appropriate warm-up and cool-down exercises for particular physical activities.

Fitness Concepts

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

Design a routine to music that includes even and uneven locomotor patterns.

Rhythmic Skills

Identify key body positions used for volleying a ball.

Explain the differences in manipulating an object when using a long-handled implement and when using a short-handled implement.

Compare and contrast dribbling a ball without a defender and with a defender

Distinguish between punting and kicking and describe the similarities and differences.

Explain the similar movement elements of the underhand throw and the underhand volleyball serve.

Manipulative Skills

Describe the appropriate body orientation to strike a ball, using the forehand movement pattern.

Describe the appropriate body orientation to serve a ball, using the underhand movement pattern.

Body Management

Describe ways to create more space between an offensive player and a defensive player.

Explain the difference between offense and defense.

Movement Concepts

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

Perform a routine to music that includes even and uneven locomotor patterns.

Perform a series of basic square-dance steps.

Rhythmic Skills

Volley a tossed lightweight ball, using the forearm pass.

Stop a kicked ball by trapping it with the foot while standing still.

Manipulate an object by using a long-handled implement.

Keep a hand-dribbled ball away from a defensive partner.

Keep a foot-dribbled ball away from a defensive partner.

Strike a gently tossed ball with a bat, using a side orientation.

Serve a lightweight ball to a partner, using the underhand movement pattern.

Strike, with a paddle or racket, a lightweight object that has been tossed by a partner.

Punt a ball dropped from the hands.

Kick a stationary ball from the ground into the air.

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

Catch a fly ball above the head, below the waist, and away from the body

Throw a flying disc for distance, using the backhand movement pattern.

Throw overhand at increasingly smaller targets, using proper follow-through.

Throw and catch an object with a partner while both partners are moving.

Manipulative Skills

Jump a self-turned rope.

Locomotor Movement

Determine the spacing between offensive and defensive players based on the speed of the players.

Change direction quickly to increase the spacing between two players.

Change direction quickly to maintain the spacing between two players.

Perform simple balance stunts with a partner while sharing a common base of support.

Body Management

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