PE GRADE-LEVEL EXPECTATIONS
GRADE SIX
Emphasis: Working Cooperatively to Achieve a Common Goal
The student will be able to:

• Throw a variety of objects, demonstrating both accuracy and distance (e.g. disk-like objects, deck tennis rings, footballs).
• Design and play small group games that involve cooperating with others to keep an object away from opponents (basic offensive and defensive strategy –for example, by throwing, kicking, or dribbling a ball).
• Design and refine a routine, combining various jump rope movements to music, so that it can be repeated without error.
• Demonstrate correctly activities designed to improve and maintain muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and cardio-respiratory functioning.
• Participate in games, sports, dance, and outdoor pursuits, both in and outside of school, according to individual interests and capabilities.
• Recognize the role of games, sports, and dance in getting to know and understand people of diverse cultures.

GRADE SEVEN
Emphasis: Meeting Challenges and Making Decisions
The student will be able to:

• Leap, roll, balance, transfer weight, bat volley, hand and foot-dribble, and strike a ball with a paddle, using mature motor patterns.
• Participate in vigorous activity for a sustained period of time while maintaining a target heart rate.
• Identify proper warm-up, conditioning, and cooling-down techniques and the reasons for using them.
• Describe ways to use the body and movement activities to communicate ideas and feelings.
• Accept and respect the decisions made by game officials – whether they are students, teachers, or officials outside of school.
• Become engaged in activities that provide for challenge, problem solving, decision making, and risk taking.

GRADE EIGHT
Emphasis: Working as a Team to Solve Problems
The student will be able to:

• Explore introductory outdoor skills (e.g. backpacking, hiking, cycling, and rope courses).
• Perform a variety of simple folk, country, and creative dances.
• Practice appropriate ways of learning new skills or sports on his or her own.
• Improve and maintain appropriate body composition.
• Describe long-term physiological, psychological, and other benefits that may result from regular participation in physical activity.
• Recognize in playing team sports that rules are fair to all and allow for safe participation.
• Understand how growth in height and weight influences the mechanical nature or performance in physical activities.