embarrassment, boredom, and loneliness and
identify healthy ways to express those feelings
•
Distinguish between needs and wants
•
Understand the importance of facial
expression, body language, and verbal
expression in communication
•
Describe the variety of possible relationships
between people
•
Understand the value of social support from
groups or individuals
•
Understand cultural/ethnic self-awareness
through participation in physical activity
•
Recognize the attributes that individuals with
differences can bring to group activities
•
Understand differences and similarities among
people of different backgrounds by how they
participate in activities of national, cultural, and
ethnic origins
•
Understand activity-specific rules, procedures
and etiquette
•
Understand the importance of safety principles
in activity situations
•
Understand the importance of working
cooperatively and productively with a partner or
small group
Nutrition
•
Compare different types of Food Guide
Pyramids, including ethnic and vegetarian
options
•
Understand the implications of geography,
ethnicity, and religion on food choices
•
Understand how the media can influence
perception of a desirable body size and shape
•
Understand how media images of food choices
and eating behaviors may be unhealthy
•
Contrast dangers of dieting with healthy weight
management
Fitness
•
Complete a health related personal fitness test
and achieve fitness scores at an acceptable
level
•
Name the benefits derived from participation
in a physical fitness program
•
Understand how the results of fitness testing
relate to personal health status and ability to
perform various activities
•
Identify several activities related to each
component of physical fitness
•
Understand the relationship between nutrition
and exercise in weight management
•
Understand the importance of selecting and
participating regularly in physical activities for
the purpose of improving skill and health
•
Understand the benefits derived from regular
physical activity
•
Demonstrate movements found in folk dance,
square dance, line dance, or other rhythmic
activities
•
Create original dances using the elements
found in square, folk, line, and/or other rhythmic
activities
•
Combine movement skills in applied settings
•
Demonstrate ball handling skills necessary for
participation in games and sports
•
Demonstrate accuracy skills necessary for
participation in a variety of games and sports
•
Demonstrate various movement forms
including jump rope routines
•
Demonstrate inverted balances using two or
more body parts
•
Create movement sequence routines that
contain balance, inversion, weight transfer, and
landing
•
Understand critical elements to improve
personal performances in fundamental and
selected specialized skills
•
Understand critical elements of fundamental
and specialized movement skills to provide
feedback to others
•
Understand concepts that impact the quality of
increasingly complex movement performances
ART
Artistic Perception
•
Identify, define, and analyze different artistic
materials, processes, and techniques (e.g.,
identify examples of gesture drawings, define
a gesture drawing as a drawing using an active
scribble line to capture movements, and
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identify techniques, elements, and principles
used in gesture drawings)
•
Identify, compare, and contrast art elements
found in the environment and in artwork (their
own and others) with an emphasis on color, line,
shape, and form, value, space, and texture
•
Identify and experiment with art principles
such as emphasis, pattern, rhythm, movement,
balance, proportion, and unity in works of art
(e.g., explore the principles of movement as
related to two- and three-dimensional form)
•
Discuss how media relates to function
•
Expand and use his/her art vocabulary to
create, describe, and respond to works of art
•
Recognize, explain, and categorize a variety
of different art styles or processes (e.g.,
distinguish between representational,
nonrepresentational, and abstract art and
recognize the difference between naturalistic
and expressive landscape paintings)
•
Describe and analyze how different materials,
processes, and techniques create different
responses
Creative Expression
•
Produce different compositions using a variety
of processes, media, and techniques
that successfully communicate their ideas,
experiences, emotions, and stories (e.g., draw
or paint an expressive landscape based on a
personal experience)
•
Create artworks that demonstrate an
understanding of art elements and principles
(e.g., create gesture drawings or paintings of
people in motion with attention to proportions
and movement and design and draw a
building for a community or place/region being
studied that includes at least three different
architectural elements such as a dome, a
pediment, a column, a portico, a balustrade,
and a fanlight)
•
Experiment with and create artworks, such as
drawing, painting, sculpture, construction,
designing, weaving, and printmaking, using a
variety of media
•
Use a variety of painting, printmaking, drawing,
modeling, and construction techniques and
tools in his/her own work
•
Use a variety of art tools to create desired
effects such as stencils, rubbing materials, and
multiple-sized brushes
•
Create 3-D designs using a variety of materials
such as wire and papier-mâché
•
Create works of art that communicate and
record impressions and views of everyday events
and/or moments in history
•
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 and discuss artworks of the past and
present by comparing and contrasting them
•
Identify and describe contemporary artists
and craft persons
•
Describe how local and state art galleries and
museums contribute to the conservation of art
and art history
•
Discuss the influence of beliefs (such as
religious groups), needs, and values on art and
architecture
Aesthetic Valuing
•
Describe artworks and make informed
judgments about works of art using appropriate
art vocabulary, technical, and expressive
comments and explains his/her reasoning
•
Discuss how mood or feelings are conveyed
in selected works of art
•
Give at least three characteristics that he/she
believes make a work of art
•
Identify multiple purposes for creating works
of art
Connections and Applications
•
Apply what he/she learns in visual arts to other
disciplines (e.g., interpreting the meaning of a
song or poem by analyzing its elements)
•
Relate artistic skills to a variety of careers
•
Identify how art improves the aesthetic quality
of the environment
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