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 6:
1. Describe the physical, social, and emotional benefits of regular physical activity.
2. Differentiate among activities that improve skill fitness versus health-related fitness.
3. Describe how body systems adapt over time to regular physical activity.
4. Describe how gender, age, heredity, training, and health behaviors impact fitness.
5. Investigate technological advances that impact physical activity and fitness.
6. Describe the relationship between physical activity, healthy eating, and 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 6:
1. Discuss the relationship between practice, training, and injury prevention.
2. Discuss how the principles of training including FIT, overload, progression, and specificity improve personal fitness.
3. Apply the appropriate training principles to various forms of physical activity used to improve personal fitness.
4. Describe the physical and behavioral effects of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances and discuss legal and competition issues related to their use.

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 6:
1. Engage in moderate to vigorous forms of physical activity that address each component of fitness.
2. Engage in physical activity at a target heart rate for a minimum of 20 minutes.
3. Monitor physiological indicators before, during, and after exercise.
4. Assess personal fitness, develop a personal fitness plan based on the findings, and use technology to implement the plan.
5. Demonstrate age- and gender-specific progress towards improving each component of fitness.

Link to Standard 2.6 Grade 3-4

Link to Standard 2.6 Grade 7-8

Back to Main Page