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 2:
1. Identify the components of health-related and skill-related fitness and identify activities that develop each component.
2. Identify body responses associated with moderate to vigorous physical activity including sweating, a fast heart rate, and heavy breathing.
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
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.
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.
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 2:
1. Explain that too much or not enough exercise can be harmful.
2. Explain that participation in regular physical activity contributes to wellness.
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.
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.
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.
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 2:
1. Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity that develops all components of fitness.
2. Monitor heart rate and breathing before, during, and after exercise.
3. Develop a fitness goal and monitor achievement of the goal.
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.
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.
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.
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