Durant Road Middle Healthful Living

Promoting a lifestyle of wellness through healthy choices and physical activity!

Physical Education Units of Study & Competency Goals

Physical Education-Yearlong Objectives

Goal 6: Students will demonstrate competency in a variety of movement forms and proficiency in a few to gain competence towards lifetime physical activities.
Examples: dance, small-sided games for net and invasion games, variety of games and dual/team sports, individual physical activity, strategies for creating open space on offense or defense in a variety of activities. 

Goal 7: Students will demonstrate movement concepts, principles, strategies and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activities. Examples – peer feedback/assessments, demonstrate speeding up or slowing down to intercept an object; apply rules and safe practices in a variety of physical activities; effective sequence for skill performance; advanced movement skills such as the “give and go” or “pick and roll” in basketball.

Goal 8: Students will exhibit a physically active lifestyle.  Examples: use of pedometers and/or heart rate monitors; establish and implement personal physical activity goals; identify resources in the community that can be assessed to maintain a physically active lifestyle.

Goal 9: Students will show evidence of an acceptable level of health-related fitness and be familiar with factors that benefit performance.  Examples: self-paced aerobic activity; personal improvement toward achievement of fitness scores at an acceptable level; develop a strategy to improve personal level of fitness within these 5 components = aerobic and anaerobic activities, body composition, cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance.

PE activities include but are not limited to:
Badminton                                                    Frisbee Games
Basketball                                                     Kick ball games
Big Group Games                                          Pickle ball
Bowling                                                         Soccer
Capture the Flag                                           Softball
Dance                                                           Speedball
DDR – Dance Dance Revolution                    Table Tennis
Fitness (Cardio Room Workouts)                  Team handball
Flag Football                                                 Tennis
Flickerball                                                     Track & Field
Floor Hockey                                                 Volleyball