7th Grade
Standard 1: Students demonstrate the motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities
Manipulative skills
1.1 - Demonstrate mature techniques for the following patterns: overhand, sidearm, and underhand throwing; catching, kicking/punting; striking; trapping; dribbling (hand and foot); and volleying.
Rhythmic skills
1.2 - Perform multicultural dances.
Combinations of Movement Patterns and Skills
1.3 - Combine manipulative, locomotor, non-locomotor skills into movement patterns.
1.4 - Demonstrate body management and object-manipulation skills needed for successful participation in individual and dual physical activities.
1.5 - Demonstrate body management and locomotor skills needed for successful participation in track and field and combative activities.
1.6 - Demonstrate body management and object-manipulation skills needed for successful participation in introductory adventure/outdoor activities.
Standard 2: Students demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.
Manipulative Skills
2.1 - Identify and describe key elements in the mature performance of overhand, sidearm, and underhand throwing; catching; kicking/punting; striking; trapping; dribbling (hand and foot); and volleying.
Movement Concepts
2.2 - Analyze movement patterns and correct errors.
2.3 - Use principles of motor learning to establish, monitor, and meet goals for motor skill development.
2.4 - Explain and demonstrate spin and rebound principles for performing manipulative skills.
2.5 - Compare and contrast the effectiveness of practicing skills as a whole and practicing skills in smaller parts.
2.6 - Diagram and demonstrate basic offensive and defensive strategies fro individual and dual physical activities.
Combination of Movement Patterns and Skills
2.7 - Develop an individual or dual game that uses a manipulative skill, two different offensive strategies, and a scoring system and teach it to another person.
Standard 3: Students assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.
3.1 - Assess one's own muscle strength, muscle endurance, aerobic capacity, flexibility, and body composition by using scientifically based health-related fitness assessment.
3.2 - Evaluate individual measures of physical fitness in relationship to patterns of physical activity.
3.3 - Develop individual goals, from research-based standards, for each of the five components of health-related physical fitness.
3.4 - Plan a weekly personal physical fitness program in collaboration with the teacher.
3.5 - Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity a minimum of four days each week.
3.6 - Assess periodically the attainment of, or progress toward, personal fitness goals and make necessary adjustments to a personal physical fitness program.
Standard 4: Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.
4.1 - Develop a one-week personal physical fitness plan specifying the proper warm-up and cool-down activities and the principles of exercise for each component of health-related physical fitness.
4.2 - Identify physical activities that are effective in improving each of the health-related physical fitness components.
4.3 - Match personal preferences in physical activities with each of the five components of health-related physical fitness.
4.4 - Explain the effects of physical activity on heart rate during exercise, during the recovery phase, and while the body is at rest.
4.5 - Describe the role of physical activity and nutrition in achieving physical fitness.
4.6 - Identify and apply the principles of overload in safe, age appropriate activities.
4.7 - Explain progression, overload, and specificity as principles of exercise.
4.8 - Discuss the effect of extremity growth rates on physical fitness.
Standard 5: Students demonstrate and utilize knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity.
Self-Responsibility
5.1 - Identify appropriate and inappropriate risks involved in adventure, individual, and dual physical activities.
5.2 - Accept responsibility for individual improvement.
Social Interaction
5.3 - Demonstrate an acceptance of differences in physical development and personal preferences as they affect participation in physical activity.
Group Dynamics
5.4 - Evaluate the effect of expressing encouragement to others while participating in a group physical activity.
5.5 Identify the responsibilities of a leader in physical activity.
*Adapted from the Physical Education Model Content Standards for California Public Schools (Kindergarten through Grade Twelve) which can be found at: http://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/pestandards.pdf