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 4:
1. Discuss the physical, social, and emotional benefits of regular physical activity.
2. Explain each component of health-related and skill-related fitness and explain how specific activities develop each component.
3. Describe how body systems respond to vigorous exercise.
4. Discuss factors such as heredity, training, and diet that influence fitness.
5. Describe how technology has improved fitness activities

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 4:
1. Discuss the importance of regular physical activity.
2. Describe and apply the training principles of frequency, intensity, and time (FIT) during physical activity.
3. Explain that using performance-enhancing substances, including anabolic steroids and supplements, may be unsafe and illegal.

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 4:
1. Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity that develops all components of fitness.
2. Maintain continuous aerobic activity for a specified time period.
3. Monitor physiological responses before, during, and after exercise.
4. Develop a health-related fitness goal and use technology to track fitness status.
5. Demonstrate age and gender-specific progress towards improving each component of fitness.
6. Demonstrate safe and appropriate techniques while engaging in fitness activities.

Link to Standard 2.6 Grade K-2

Link to Standard 2.6 Grade 5-6

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