• Seventh-Grade Physical Education Units

     

    Seventh-Grade Physical Education Learning Objectives


    Health & Skill Related Fitness

    • Analyze activities to determine whether they promote health-related fitness, skill-related fitness, or both.

    Wellness

    • Identify physiological changes that occur in the body due to stress (e.g., sweating, eye twitching, rapid pulse, irregular heartbeat)

    Fitness Principles

    • Identify the FITT principle (frequency, intensity, time, type) and how it related to exercise.

    Personal/Social Responsibilities

    • Select appropriate conflict resolution skills in physical activity setting. (i.e. self-control, respect, peer influence)

    Prevention

    • Identify proper protective equipment used in physical activities.

    Body Management (mechanical principles)

    • Apply mechanical principals of force, stability, motion, and direction (e.g., lower the center of gravity)

    Movement Concepts (identify critical movement elements)

    • Identify critical elements to improve performance in selected skills (e.g., throw various objects)

    Developmental Games

    • Apply fundamental and sequential skills in game situations with increased proficiency.

    Skill Techniques

    • Demonstrate skills successfully in modified games of increased complexity.

    Individual, Dual and Team Sports

    • Apply terminology, scoring, etiquette, player position and equipment, safety principles and game rules for individual, dual and team sports.
    • Apply basic offensive and defensive strategies in a modified game setting.

    Outdoor Pursuits / Recreational Activities

    • Apply terminology, scoring, etiquette, safety principles, and rules appropriate for challenge and recreational activities.

    Creative/Interpretive

    • Apply fundamental movement skills to create a simple movement sequence (e.g.., locomotor, non-locomotor, self-expression, self evaluation).

    Rhythmic Activities

    • Design an exercise routine to accompany music that emphasizes fitness components (e.g., jump rope, aerobics, line dance)

    Social/Cultural Aspects of Dance

    • Discuss the cultural and historic context of at least one dance form.