Grade 6 PE CA Core Standards

Group Dynamics

Illustrate how the intended direction of an object is affected by the angle of the implement or body part at the time of contact.

Combination of Movement Patterns and Skills

Combinations of Movement Patterns and Skills

Manipulative Skills

Explain how to increase force based on the principles of biomechanics.

Identify contraindicated exercises and their adverse effects on the body.

Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity a minimum of four days each week.

Develop a cooperative movement game that uses locomotor skills, object manipulation, and an offensive strategy and teach the game to another person.

Identify practices and procedures necessary for safe participation in physical activities.

Manipulative Skills

Develop individual goals for each of the components of health-related physical fitness (muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, aerobic capacity, and body composition).

Rhythmic Skills

Develop, refine, and demonstrate routines to music.

Compare individual physical fitness results with research-based standards for good health.

Explain the role of the legs, shoulders, and forearm in the forearm pass.

Perform folk and line dances.

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

Combine relationships, levels, speed, direction, and pathways in complex individual and group physical activities.

List the long-term benefits of participation in regular physical activity.

Strike an object consistently, using an implement, so that the object travels in the intended direction at the desired height.

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

Strike an object consistently, using a body part, so that the object travels in the intended direction at the desired height.

Participate productively in group physical activities.

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

Identify and define the role of each participant in a cooperative physical activity.

Provide feedback to a partner to assist in developing and improving movement skills.

Explain methods of monitoring heart rate intensity

Evaluate individual responsibility in group efforts.

Dribble and pass a ball to a partner while being guarded.

Develop a one-day personal physical fitness plan specifying the intensity, time, and types of physical activities for each component of health-related physical fitness.

Measure and evaluate changes in health-related physical fitness based on physical activity patterns.

Design and perform smooth, flowing sequences of stunts, tumbling, and rhythmic patterns that combine traveling, rolling, balancing, and transferring weight.

Combine motor skills to play a lead-up or modified game.

Volley an object repeatedly with a partner, using the forearm pass.

Assess the components of health-related physical fitness (muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, aerobic capacity, and body composition) by using a scientifically based health-related fitness assessment.

Explain how impact force is reduced by increasing the duration of impact.

Identify and agree on a common goal when participating in a cooperative physical activity.

Monitor the intensity of one's heart rate during physical activity.

Movement Concepts

Analyze and correct errors in movement patterns.

Compile and analyze a log noting the food intake/calories consumed and energy expended through physical activity.

Classify physical activities as aerobic or anaerobic.

Explain how movement qualities contribute to the aesthetic dimension of physical activity.

Identify steps and rhythm patterns for folk and line dances.

Distinguish between effective and ineffective warm-up and cool-down techniques.

Throw an object accurately and with applied force, using the underhand, overhand, and sidearm movement (throw) patterns.

Self-Responsibility

Identify opportunities to pass or dribble while being guarded.

Analyze possible solutions to a movement problem in a cooperative physical activity and come to a consensus on the best solution.

Strike a ball continuously against a wall and with a partner, using a paddle for the forehand stroke and the backhand stroke.

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

Social Interaction

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

Rhythmic Skills

Identify the time necessary to prepare for and begin a forehand stroke and a backhand stroke.