STANDARD 2.6: Health and Physical Education

Standard 2: Comprehensive Health and Physical Education

Mission: .Knowledge of health and physical education concepts and skills empowers students to assume lifelong responsibility to develop physical, social and emotional wellness.

Standard 2.6 Fitness

All students will apply health-related and skill-related fitness concepts and skills to develop and maintain a healthy, active lifestyle.

Big Idea: Lifetime fitness depends upon understanding how each fitness component is developed and measured and how to design and implement a personal fitness plan that supports a healthy, active lifestyle.

2.6 A Fitness and Physical Activity

Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- What is the minimum amount of exercise I can do to stay physically fit?	- Understanding fitness concepts and skills and integrating them into your everyday routine supports wellness. - Physical fitness is the ability of your whole body to work together efficiently to be able to do the most work with least amount of effort.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Predict the short- and long-term physical, social, and emotional benefits and potential problems associated with regular physical activity.
2. Summarize the causes, influences, and responses of body systems during exercise.
3. Describe how preventive healthcare, physiological monitoring, hydration, a safe environment, and exercising with a partner contribute to safe fitness activities.
4. Evaluate the role of genetics, gender, age, nutrition, activity level, and exercise type on body composition.

2.6 B Training

Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do I develop an appropriate personal fitness program and find the motivation to commit to it?	- Developing and implementing a program that utilizes appropriate training principles is necessary for lifetime fitness.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Develop and implement a training program to maximize health benefits and prevent exercise-related injuries and illnesses.
2. Apply training principles to establish a progression of activity that will improve each component of fitness and justify the use of each principle.
3. Compare and contrast the use of drugs, fitness products, and fads to achieve fitness.

2.6 C Achieving and Assessing Fitness

Essential Questions	Enduring Understandings
- How do you realize age-appropriate fitness?	- Achieving and maintaining fitness requires age-appropriate intensity, duration and frequency of exercise. - Ongoing feedback and assessment is necessary in determining the effectiveness of a personal fitness program.
Cumulative Progress Indicators	Comments and Examples
By the end of Grade 12:
1. Engage in a variety of sustained, vigorous physical activities to enhance each component of fitness.
2. Perform at the intensity level needed to enhance cardiovascular fitness, monitor physiological responses before, during and after exercise, and modify exercise appropriately in response.
3. Assess personal level of fitness, design a personal fitness plan considering current health and fitness status, goals and interests, skill level, accessibility and costs, and use technology to implement, monitor, and evaluate the plan.
4. Demonstrate age and gender-specific progress towards the achievement of fitness goals for each component of health-related and skill-related fitness.
5. Modify a fitness plan to accommodate for injury, illness, pregnancy, aging, and disability.
6. Discuss the use of body mass index, body fat percentage, and fat deposition as measures of fitness

Link to Standard 2.6 Grade 7-8

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