Physical Education


Curriculum: Physical Education


K-12 Sequence of Study

Middle School Physical Education

Overview/Course Description
The middle school physical education program's purpose is primarily to equip students with the skills, knowledge and attitudes essential to engaging in regular lifelong physical activity. The program has two primary focal points. The first is to equip students with levels of motor skill that enables safe, satisfying participation in lifelong activities. They will also acquire the language, and knowledge they need to participate successfully. The second focal point is to equip students with the knowledge and skills essential to monitoring and managing their own health-related levels of fitness. Students will engage in activities that will help them achieve and maintain healthy fitness capacities through their middle school years, learn how to be knowledgeable consumers of physical activity, and develop attitudes and behaviors that will assist in their ability to be contributors to their social constructs.

Michigan Department of Education Physical Education K-12 Content Standards

All students will:
Motor Skills
  1. Demonstrate selected fundamental locomotor skills.
  2. Demonstrate selected fundamental object control skills.
  3. Demonstrate selected postural, non-locomotor, and body control skills.
  4. Demonstrate selected fundamental rhythmical skills.
Physical Fitness
  1. Participate successfully in selected health-enhancing, lifelong physical activities.
  2. Develop and maintain healthy levels of cardiorespiratory endurance.
  3. Develop and maintain health levels of muscular strength and endurance.
  4. Develop and maintain health levels of flexibility in selected joints of the body.
  5. Develop and maintain health levels of body composition.
Cognitive Concepts
  1. Apply concepts of body awareness, time, space, direction and force to movement.
  2. Explain and apply essential steps in learning motor skills.
  3. describe effects of activity and inactivity and formulate examples of lifestyle choices that results in the development and maintenance of health-related fitness;
Personal and Social Character Traits
  1. Demonstrate appropriate behavior related to selected personal/social character traits that commonly emerge in a physical activity context; and
  2. Value physical activity and its contribution to lifelong health and well being.

 

Middle School Physical Education Units of Study

All students will:
1. Physical Fitness
Aerobic fitness
Strength: abdomen/low back
Strength: upper body
Strength: legs
Flexibility: hip/low back
2. Cognitive Concepts
How to learn motor skills
Benefits of physical activity
Potential detrimental affects of physical activity
Nutrition and physical activity
Assess personal status on fitness indicators
Prevention and care of injuries
Design a personal activity program

3. Personal and Social Character Traits
Cooperation
Leadership
Value an active lifestyle
4. Activity Related Concepts
Jogging/powerwalking
Benefits of cardiovascular training
Factors affecting cardiovascular training
Principles of cardiovascular training
Safety practices and procedures
Designing a personal program
Jogging/powerwalking form
Strength training
Benefits of strength training:
Factors affecting strength training
Principles of strength training
Safety practices and procedures
Designing a personal program
Strength training exercises:
Volleyball
Vocabulary
Rules and scoring
Serve
Forearm pass
Overhead pass
Basketball
Vocabulary Triple threat position
Jump stop and pivot
Control dribble
Chest pass
Overhead pass
Shooting form
Lay-up
Rebounding
Rules and scoring
Offensive strategy
Defensive concepts
Soccer
Vocabulary
Trapping
Shot/instep kick
Foot passes
Control dribble
Rules and scoring
Attitudes toward playing
Racket sports
Vocabulary
Forehand strike
Backhand strike
Serve
Rules and scoring
Golf
Vocabulary
Etiquette
Golf swing
Putting and chipping
Rules and scoring