Secondary Curriculum: Sixth - Physical Education
Sixth-Grade Physical Education
Grade 6
10 credits
This course reinforces the locomotive and non-locomotive skills of its
students. Emphasis is placed on individual skill development and enhancement.
Students are introduced to team and individual sports. Socially, students
express an appreciation for good sportsmanship, cooperation and fair
play.
Seventh-Grade Physical Education
Grade 7
10 credits
Students learn the skills (motor development) needed for various team
and individual sports. Risk taking by trying new equipment and new
ways to use old equipment is emphasized. Socially, students express
an appreciation
for cooperation and fair play by adhering to team rules and group participation.
This will assist students to make new friends and begin to accept their
own limitations.
Eighth-Grade Physical Education
Grade 8
10 credits
The emphasis for this age is to work as a team: to solve problems through
team sports, including defensive and offensive strategies. Team participation
emphasizes group loyalty, identification of sportsmanship, sharing,
and leadership skills. Students are encouraged to understand relationships
among sport skills. Students will also begin designing personal plans
for a healthy life style.
Physical Education I
Grade 9
10 credits
The emphasis in the ninth grade is to begin learning how to develop
individualized fitness programs. Physiology of exercise, muscular strength,
flexibility,
cardio-respiratory endurance, cooperation, situation analysis, and
goal setting, will assist in this development.
Physical Education II
Grade 10
10 credits
The emphasis in the tenth grade is on individual and dual sports, outdoor
education, dance, and analysis of physical movement. Students will
be able to develop a personal lifetime plan for physical fitness and
activity.
Along with understanding the application of the principle of levers
to movement, students will learn new skills by using three stages of
learning:
(1) Cognitive phase, (2) Practice phase, and (3) Automatic phase. Peer
coaching is emphasized.
Physical Education Elective
Grades 11 & 12
10 credits
Students choose their own specialized activities. Students are responsible
in being creative with activities and are encouraged to use self-expression
through specific activities. They will continue the analysis of the biomechanics
of movement and the designing of their own personal lifetime fitness
programs. Students are encouraged to work in small groups to provide
one another with positive as well as corrective feedback. Students will
be encouraged to support and participate in community organizations that
promote health and fitness.
