Kennedy Middle School

Unit Objectives

Cooperative Games

5th Grade

2.1 Apply movement concepts including direction, balance, level, pathway, range, and 

force absorption to extend versatility and improve physical performance.

6th Grade

2.2 Use a variety of manipulative skills as individuals and in teams.

7th Grade

2.7 Demonstrate responsible personal and social conduct used in physical activity 

settings.

2.8 Use combinations of manipulative, locomotor, and non-locomotor skills to develop 

sequences and patterns, both individually and with others.

8th Grade

2.12 Participates in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle, 

and relieve mental and emotional tension.

Team Sport Unit

5th Grade

2.1 Apply movement concepts including direction, balance, level, pathway, range, and

force absorption to extend versatility and improve physical performance.

6th Grade

2.7 Demonstrate responsible personal and social conduct used in physical activity

settings.

7th Grade

2.8 Use combinations of manipulative, loco motor, and non-loco motor skills to develop

sequences and patterns, both individually and with others.

8th Grade

2.12 Participates in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle,

and relieve mental and emotional tension.

Creative Movement

5th Grade

-2.1 Apply movement concepts including direction, balance, level, pathway, range, and

force absorption to extend versatility and improve physical performance.

-2.3  Perform rhythm routines, including dancing, to demonstrate fundamental movement

skills.

6th Grade

-2.8  Use combinations of manipulative, locomotor, and non-locomotor skills to develop

sequences and patterns, both individually and with others.

7th Grade

-2.10 Perform a rhythm routine that combines traveling, rolling, balancing, and weight

transfer and to smooth flowing sequences with intentional changes in direction, speed,

and flow.

8th Grade

-Incorporate technology by creating or by choosing their own school appropriatemusic.

As a group, develop and perform a dance routine that coincides with the music they

chose.  Complete the dance based on the 8th grade rubric, which has more level and

direction changes, more skills, and more precision.

Fitness Unit

5th Grade

-2.1 Apply movement concepts including direction, balance, level, pathway, range, and

force absorption to extend versatility and improve physical performance.  

-Manually take heart rate using the carotid and radial artery.  Understand targetHeart

Rate Zone and Resting Heart Rate Zone.  

-Be able to define cardiovascular endurance and provide examples.

6th Grade

-2.3 Perform rhythm routines, including dancing, to demonstrate fundamental movement

skills.

7th Grade

-2.8 Use combinations of manipulative, loco-motor, and non-locomotor skills to develop

sequences and patterns, both individually and with others.

8th Grade

-2.12 Participates in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle,

and relieve mental and emotional tension.

Cardiovascular Endurance Unit

5th Grade  

-2.1 Apply movement concepts including direction, balance, level,

pathway, range, and force absorption to extend versatility and improve

physical performance.  

-Manually take heart rate using the carotid and radial artery.  Understand target Heart

Rate Zone and Resting Heart Rate Zone.  

-Be able to define cardiovascular endurance and provide examples.

-2.12 Participates in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle,

and relieve mental and emotional tension.

6th -  In addition to 5th grade

-2.4   Identify physical and psychological changes that result from participation in a

variety of physical activities.

-2.5 Explain the benefits of physical fitness to good health and increase active lifestyle.  

-2.12 Participates in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle,

and relieve mental and emotional tension.

7th Grade

-2.6 Identify the major benefits that contrbute to wellness.

-2.7 Demonstrate responsible personal and social conduct used in physical activity

settings.

-2.12 Participates in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle,

and relieve mental and emotional tension.  

8th Grade

-2.11  Apply basic principles of training and appropriate guidelines of exercise to

improve immediate and long-term physical fitness.

-2.12 Participates in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle,

and relieve mental and emotional tension.