Elementary Curriculum for
Fifth Grade - Physical Education

Motor Skills

Content Standard 1:  All students will demonstrate selected fundamental locomotor skills.

• Demonstrate mature form and functional competence in the following locomotor skills: walk, run, leap, long horizontal jump, vertical jump, skip, hop, gallop and slide. 

Content Standard 2:  All students will demonstrate selected fundamental object control skills.

• Demonstrate mature form and functional competence in the following object control skills: underhand throw (toss), overhand throw, catch, hand dribble, foot dribble, kick and strike (batting, forehand, overhand, underhand, backhand, punt, chest and pass). 

Content Standard 3:  All students will demonstrate selected nonlocomotor and body control (movement) skills.

• Demonstrate the ability to perform nonlocomotor skills (e.g., bending, stretching, rocking, rolling, curling, twisting, turning, pushing, pulling, swinging, swaying and landing).
• Demonstrate good posture while walking/standing.
• Demonstrate good posture while lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling and sitting.
• Demonstrate mature form in falling-landing-rolling (e.g., landing, forward shoulder roll, backward shoulder roll).
• Demonstrate mature form in selected balances (e.g., dynamic upright, static upright, inverted).
• Demonstrate mature form in selected vaulting and rope jumping skills.
• Demonstrate mature form in selected twisting and turning skills. 

Content Standard 4:  All students will demonstrate selected fundamental rhythmical skills.

• Perform locomotor skills rhythmically at various speeds, directions, levels and pathways.
• Perform simple folk, square, creative and/or aerobic rhythmic activities.
• Perform a simple routine to music in jump rope, dance or tumbling. 

Content Standard 5:  All students will demonstrate combinations of locomotor, object control, nonlocomotor and body control and rhythmical skills.

• Demonstrate appropriate form in selected combinations of fundamental object control skills (e.g., catch and throw).
• Demonstrate appropriate form in selected combinations of nonlocomotor/body control skills (e.g., balance at different levels).
• Demonstrate appropriate form in selected combinations of fundamental locomotor and object control skills (e.g., run and catch, jump and throw).
• Demonstrate appropriate form in selected combinations of fundamental locomotor and nonlocomotor/body control skills (e.g., walk bent down, stretch and walk, and jump and twist).
• Demonstrate appropriate form in selected combinations of fundamental object control and nonlocomotor/body control skills (e.g., pivot and throw, and twist and strike).
• Demonstrate appropriate form in selected combinations of fundamental locomotor and rhythmical skills (e.g., walk, run and skip in time to music).
• Demonstrate appropriate form, selected combinations of fundamental object control and rhythmical skills (e.g., bounce a ball in time to music).
• Demonstrate appropriate form in selected combinations of nonlocomotor/body control skills, and rhythmical skills (e.g., sway, change levels in time to music). 

Content Standard 6:  All students will participate successfully in selected health-enhancing, lifelong physical activities.

• Demonstrate selected sport-specific skills in the following categories:  swimming:  individual, dual or team sports; dance:  recreational games, and outdoor pursuits.

Physical Fitness

Content Standard 7:  All students will develop and maintain healthy levels of cardio respiratory endurance.

• Sustain moderate to intense levels of physical activity that cause increased heart rate, breathing rate, perspiration, etc. (e.g., running, galloping, skipping and hopping).
• Meet standards on selected fitness activities that develop and maintain cardio respiratory endurance (e.g., timed or distance walk/run and other endurance activities at specified heart rate). 

Content Standard 8:  All students will develop and maintain healthy levels of muscular strength and endurance.

• Control own weight in selected body support activities to develop muscular strength and endurance of the abdomen, lower back, upper body, thigh, lower leg and neck (e.g., climbing, hanging, hopping, jumping, animal walks and stunts).
• Meet standards on selected fitness activities that develop and maintain muscular strength and endurance of the abdomen, lower back, upper body, thigh, lower leg, and neck (e.g., push-up activities, pull-up activities, curl-up activities, isometric strength activities, jump rope activities and bench-stepping activities).

Content Standard 9:  All students will develop and maintain healthy levels of flexibility of selected joints of the body.

• Move the major joints of the arms, legs and trunk through a full range of motion.
• Meet standards on selected fitness activities (e.g., sit and reach, trunk twists and arm-shoulder stretches) that develop and maintain flexibility of the major joints of the hip/low back, shoulder, neck, ankle and trunk. 

Content Standard 10:  All students will develop and maintain healthy levels of body composition.

• Recognize similarities and differences in body height, weight and shape.
• Describe the effects of physical activity and nutrition on body composition.
• Meet health-related height, weight and shape. 

Cognitive Concepts

Content Standard 11:  All students will apply the concepts of body awareness, time, space, direction and force to movement.

• Travel in forward, sideways and backward directions and change direction quickly and safely.
• Demonstrate slow and fast movement speeds and straight, curved and zigzag pathways.
• Demonstrate a variety of relationships with objects (e.g., over, under, behind, alongside and through). 

Content Standard 12:  All students will explain and apply the essential steps in learning motor skills.

• Describe the critical components of mature patterns of fundamental motor and selected sport skills.
• Recognize similar movement concepts and elements in a variety of skills.
• Recognize the importance of correct practice in learning skills.
• Recognize and use the outcome of practice trials to plan subsequent practice trials.
• Apply prior knowledge as cues for learning new skills.
• Use corrective feedback from the teacher or peers to improve skill performances. 

Content Standard 13:  All students will apply appropriate rules and strategies when participating in physical activities.

• Follow the rules while participating in physical activity while in the presence of a teacher.
• Follow game and participation rules independently and demonstrate fair play.
• Identify guidelines and behaviors for the safe use of equipment and apparatus.
• Identify the purposes of rules in games. 

Content Standard 14:  All students will describe the effects of activity and inactivity and formulate examples of lifestyle choices that result in the development and maintenance of health-related fitness.

• Describe selected immediate effects of physical activity (e.g., increased heart rate, increased body temperature, muscle tension and faster breathing rate).
• Describe selected long-term benefits of the right kinds and amounts of physical activity (e.g., strong heart, flexible joints, strong muscles, correct body weight, good endurance, improved performances, optimal growth and good health).
• Describe selected detrimental effects of physical activity (e.g., muscle soreness, overuse injuries, overtraining, temporary tiredness and discovering inability).
• Identify physical activities that can be used to improve each of the following health-related fitness components:  cardio respiratory endurance, body composition, flexibility, posture, muscular strength and endurance, and weight control.
• Identify physical activities that contribute to feeling good (healthy). 

Personal and Social Character Traits

Content Standard 15:  All students will demonstrate appropriate behavior related to selected personal/social character traits that commonly emerge in a physical activity context. 

Content Standard 16:  All students will value physical activity and its contribution to lifelong health and well-being.

• Identify and enjoy feelings that result from participation in physical activities.
• Feel satisfaction on days when engaging in physical activity.
• Enjoy participation in physical activities alone and with others.
• Accept and respect differences and similarities in physical activity-related skills.
• Be considerate of others in physical settings (e.g., show compassion, cooperation, fairness, honesty, loyalty, respect and responsibility).
• Appreciate benefits that accompany compassion, cooperation, honesty and perseverance.