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Understand how to address embarrassment
appropriately
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Understand how to express opinions contrary
to those of others
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Understand the importance of showing
sympathy and empathy for others
•
Understand the importance of using self-
control as a substitute for aggression
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Understand the importance of participating in
group activities with various classmates
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Understand how to use positive conflict
resolution strategies in game-play situations
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Understand the importance of working
cooperatively with others to complete a task
•
Understand the importance of following
directions and safety rules
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Understand positive behaviors used during
play situations
Nutrition
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Identify the important nutrients in each of the
food groups of the Food Guide Pyramid
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Plan healthy meals and snacks that emphasize
the principles of the Food Guide Pyramid
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Understand the practices of safe food handling
that promote cleanliness and avoid cross-
contamination
•
Understand the basic information on food
labels
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Distinguish between internal and external
cues for starting and stopping eating
•
Recognize the social significance of food in
family and cultures
Fitness
•
Recall all of the components of health related
fitness (e.g., regular exercise, proper diet,
sufficient sleep, etc.)
•
Understand the components of a health
enhancing personal fitness test
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Understand the importance of warm up and
cool down activities
•
Demonstrate the importance of being
physically active
•
Understand that participation in physical
activity is a conscious choice
•
Identify personal likes and dislikes related to
physical activity
•
Demonstrate American and international folk
dances
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Create movement sequences to a rhythmic
beat while manipulating objects
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Demonstrate catching and throwing patterns
with balls and other appropriate objects
•
Discover the ability to change direction and
levels with objects
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Perform the skills of kicking, dribbling, passing
and trapping
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Demonstrate the ability to strike with a paddle
or other appropriate extensions
•
Demonstrate inverted movements
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Perform a variety of forward and backward
rolling movements and sequences
•
Create a variety of gymnastic routines which
focus on inversion and rolling sequences
•
Perform a variety of jump rope skills
•
Understand the importance of safe practices in
physical activity settings
•
Understand the importance of following rules
during a variety of physical activities
•
Understand the major characteristics of mature
walking, running, throwing, and catching
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Understand the importance of using feedback
to improve performance
•
Identify and understand the critical elements
of basic fitness terms
ART
Artistic Perception
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Identify and analyze different artistic
materials, processes, and techniques
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Identify art elements found in the environment
and in artwork (their own and others) with an
emphasis on color, line, shape, form, value,
space, and texture
•
Identify art principles such as emphasis,
pattern, rhythm, balance, proportion, and unity
in works of art
•
Describe how different materials, processes,
and techniques create different responses
•
Compare and contrast two artworks that are
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made using different media and/or tools
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Expand and use art vocabulary to effectively
process, analyze, and respond to works of art
Creative Expression
•
Produce different compositions using a variety
of processes, media, and techniques
that successfully communicate their ideas,
experiences, and stories
•
Create artworks that reflect their study of
a culture
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Create artworks that demonstrate an
understanding of art elements and principles
(e.g., creates a landscape, seascape, or
cityscape that demonstrates their understanding
of how the illusion of space is created with a
foreground, middle ground, and background)
•
Experiment with and create artworks using a
variety of mediums, such as drawing, painting,
sculpture, construction, and print, and a variety
of materials
•
Use art materials and tools in a responsible way
Historical and Cultural Context
•
Discuss how history, culture, and visual arts
influence each other and are a reflection of
times, places, and cultures
•
Identify, describe, and compare different
objects, including architecture and works of art,
from different cultures around the world
•
Identify artists and art traditions from local
communities
•
Analyze one historically significant architectural
structure in the community and draw it
attending to proportions, architectural features,
patterns, and texture
Aesthetic Valuing
•
Understand there are various purposes for
creating art and one’s experiences influence the
artistic creation
•
Analyze the elements and principles an artist
uses to create a work of art
•
Examine and discuss different interpretations
of art
•
Describe artworks and make informed
judgments about works of art using appropriate
art vocabulary
•
Identify and analyze qualities of their own
works of art
Connections and Applications
•
Discuss the importance of artists and the
variety of art related careers
•
Demonstrate basic knowledge of the technical
process used in visual arts using appropriate art
vocabulary
•
Determine and describe why art has value and
how art is used to fill many common needs of
people
•
Explore cultural institutions (museums,
galleries) and community opportunities
(festivals) to increase their exposure to and
understanding of art
•
Identify connections between the arts and
other disciplines
•
Apply knowledge of art to other disciplines
(e.g., interpreting the meaning of a song or
poem by analyzing its elements)
•
Connect their learning of art to other fine arts
such as music or dance
MUSIC
Beat Pattern
•
Identify different beat or rhythm patterns when
presented with musical samples
•
Improvise and create simple rhythms and
melodies
•
Perform personally created simple rhythms and
melodies with chosen instruments within
specified guidelines (style, form, instrumentation)
•
Conduct more complex conducting patterns in
2/4 and 4/4 meter signatures
Ear Training
•
Identify simple musical forms
•
Identify sounds of a variety of instruments
•
Identify, discuss, and explore pentatonic
major and minor scales through auditory cues
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Improvise complex rhythmic “answer phrases”
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