Grade 6 PE CA Core Standards

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

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

Group Dynamics

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

Social Interaction

Evaluate individual responsibility in group efforts.

Participate productively in group 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.

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

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

Explain methods of monitoring heart rate intensity

Classify physical activities as aerobic or anaerobic.

Identify contraindicated exercises and their adverse effects on the body.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Combination of Movement Patterns and Skills

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

Identify steps and rhythm patterns for folk and line dances.

Rhythmic Skills

Identify opportunities to pass or dribble while being guarded.

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

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

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

Manipulative Skills

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

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

Analyze and correct errors in movement patterns.

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

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

Movement Concepts

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

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.

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

Combinations of Movement Patterns and Skills

Develop, refine, and demonstrate routines to music.

Perform folk and line dances.

Rhythmic Skills

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

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

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

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

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

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

Manipulative Skills

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