Elementary Curriculum for
Kindergarten - Physical Education

Motor Skills

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

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

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

• Demonstrate appropriate form in the following object control skills:  underhand throw (toss), overhand throw, catch, hand dribble, foot dribble, kick and strike (batting, forehand). 

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 appropriate form in falling-landing-rolling (e.g., landing, forward shoulder roll, backward shoulder roll).
• Demonstrate appropriate 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.

• Clap the appropriate rhythmic pattern for selected locomotor skills (e.g., walk, run, gallop and skip).
• Demonstrate locomotor skills in time to selected rhythmic patterns (e.g., even, uneven, fast and slow).
• Create and/or imitate movements in response to selected rhythms (e.g., animals, machines and objects). 

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 locomotor skills (e.g., walk and run, skip and jump, and leap and jump).
• 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 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). 

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 cardiorespiratory 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.

• Identify selected body parts, actions and planes.
• Travel in forward, sideways and backward directions and change direction quickly and safely.
• Travel while changing speeds and directions in response to a variety of rhythms.
• Demonstrate slow and fast movement speeds and straight, curved and zigzag pathways.
• Make both large and small body shapes.
• Demonstrate a variety of relationships with objects (e.g., over, under, behind, alongside and through).
• Demonstrate high, middle and low levels.
• Combine shapes, levels and pathways into simple sequences. 

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

• Attend to the explanation/demonstration of motor skills.
• Identify essential components of selected motor skills.
• Recognize the importance of correct practice in learning skills.
• Apply prior knowledge as cues for learning new skills. 

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).
• 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.