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 8:
1. Summarize the potential short- and long-term physical, social, and emotional benefits of regular physical activity.
2. Differentiate how body systems adapt to acute exercise vs. regular exercise over a period of time.
3. Predict how factors such as health status, interests, environmental conditions, and available time impact personal fitness.
4. Analyze the positive and negative impacts of technological advances on exercise, health, and fitness.
5. Describe ways to achieve a healthy body composition through healthy eating and physical activity.
6. Distinguish between facts and fallacies regarding the marketing of fitness products, services, and information.

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 8:
1. Recognize signs and symptoms that warrant exercise termination and possible follow-up with a healthcare professional.
2. Apply training principles to establish a progression of activity that will improve each component of fitness.
3. Describe and demonstrate various training methods, including isotonic, isometric, interval, and circuit methods.
4. Investigate the physical, behavioral, legal, and competitive consequences of the use of anabolic steroids and other performance enhancing substances.

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 8:
1. Engage in a variety of sustained, vigorous physical activities that enhance each component of fitness.
2. Perform at the intensity level needed to enhance cardiovascular fitness, as determined by target heart rate, perceived exertion, and recovery heart rate.
3. Monitor physiological responses before, during and after exercise and compare changes.
4. Use health data and information from internal and external sources, to develop a personal fitness plan and use technology to evaluate the implementation and outcomes of the plan.
5. Demonstrate age- and gender-specific progress towards improving each component of fitness.

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Link to Standard 2.6 Grade High School

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