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Curriculum:
Physical Education
The five overarching model content standards for elementary and middle school students are as follows:
Overarching Standard 1: Students demonstrate the motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
Overarching Standard 2: Students demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.
Overarching Standard 3: Students assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.
Overarching Standard 4: Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.
Overarching Standard 5: Students demonstrate and utilize knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity.
When students reach ninth grade, they are ready to integrate all that they know with all that they can do. For high school youths, the five overarching standards for kindergarten through grade eight are consolidated into three overarching standards. Essentially High School Standard 1 incorporates Standards 1 and 2 from kindergarten through eighth grade; High School Standard 2 incorporates Standards 3 and 4; and High School Standard 3 incorporates Standard 5.
Overarching Standard 1: Students demonstrate knowledge of and competency in motor skills, movement patterns, and strategies needed to perform a variety of physical activities.
Overarching Standard 2:Students achieve a level of physical fitness for health and performance while demonstrating knowledge of fitness concepts, principles, and strategies.
Overarching Standard 3: Students demonstrate knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity.
