PE/WELLNESS
Physical Wellness
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Understand health risks for own age group
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Understand responsibility for own health
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Understand own health status
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Understand concept of wellness
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Understand personal benefits of a healthful
lifestyle
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Understand methods of avoiding excess
sun exposure
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Understand first aid for common conditions
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Understand health risks of environmental
choices
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Understand the importance of planning
behaviors as they relate to environment
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Understand the importance of evaluating
reliability of health information sources
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Understand the importance of smoke detector
use and maintenance
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Understand the importance of a personal
management plan for preventing tooth decay
and periodontal disease
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Understand myths and misconceptions about
disease transmission and demonstrate
compassion for others
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Understand motivations for drug use and
healthful alternatives
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Understand long-term and short term effects of
tobacco products, including chewing tobacco
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Understand rational counterarguments to
pressure to use drugs, alcohol, or tobacco
products
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Identify social norms of a variety of people
(parents, peers, media, teachers, faith leaders,
police, health care professionals) regarding
substance abuse
Social/Emotional Wellness
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Understand the impact of emotions on health
related behaviors
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Understand how to manage anger and other
strong feelings
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Understand ways of dealing with boredom
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Understand how basic human needs motivate
behaviors
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Understand impulse behaviors, ways to control
them, and how to respond to others
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Understand why stereotyping and
discrimination are limiting and hurtful behaviors
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Understand rules for productive discussion
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Identify alternatives to fight or flight as a
means of resolving interpersonal conflicts
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Understand means of adapting to changing
relationships and friendships
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Understand family, school, and community are
sources of social support to reduce or prevent
stress
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Understand the importance of respect for
individual differences in physical activity settings
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Understand the importance of the role of
physical activity in a diverse society
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Develop strategies for including persons of
diverse backgrounds and abilities in physical
activity settings
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Understand behavior that will resolve conflicts
in socially appropriate ways
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Understand the importance of following rules,
procedures, and safe practices
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Display the ability to work independently for
short periods of time
Nutrition
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Understand how combination foods fit in the
Food Guide Pyramid
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Understand how personal food and beverage
choices fit in the Food Guide Pyramid
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Plan, select, and prepare healthful meals and
snacks that emphasize the principles of the Food
Guide Pyramid
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Understand basic food safety rules for
selecting, storing, preparing, cooking, cooling,
and reheating food
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Understand genetic diversity of body shapes
and sizes
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Distinguish between healthy and unhealthy
patterns of eating
Fitness
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Complete a health related fitness test
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Understand the importance of appropriate
warm up, pacing, and cool down techniques
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Understand the importance of personal
activities, interests, and abilities
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Understand the importance of opportunities for
regular physical activity
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Understand the importance of the relationship
between “feeling good” and physical activity
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Understand the importance of social and
psychological benefits from participation in
physical activities
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Demonstrate various aerobic dances
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Demonstrate various popular folk and square
dances and mixer and couple dances
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Demonstrate throwing, passing, dribbling,
catching, and shooting skills in team sports
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Demonstrate forehand and backhand striking
skills in dual and individual sports
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Demonstrate skills necessary for participation in
nontraditional games and activities
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Demonstrate the ability to jump rope with a
partner or small group
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Create a variety of combinations using balance
skills and rolling movements
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Create movement sequence routines using
balance, jumping, landing, weight transfer, and
rolling movements
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Analyze the variety of sports and movement
forms from countries around the world
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Identify the origins of a variety of sports and
movement forms
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Understand the role of the leader and follower
in a variety of physical activities
ART
Artistic Perception
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Identify, define, and analyze different artistic
materials, processes, and techniques
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Identify, define, and analyze art elements
found in the environment and in artwork (their
own and others)
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Identify, define, and analyze principles found
in artwork (their own and others)
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Identify, examine, and use art media, or
materials, and discuss the possible reasoning
behind the media choices artists and designers
use to create their artwork
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Analyze the role of art in expressing emotions,
values, personal opinions, stories, and ideas
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Define and use more complex art vocabulary
such as one-point perspective (linear perspective
where parallel lines appear to converge at the
same vanishing point on the horizon line), two-
point perspective (linear perspective with two
vanishing points on the horizon line), profiles (a
side view), and intensity (the brightness or
dullness of a color)
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Identify and explain the effects of structure
and function in works of art
Creative Expression
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Produce different compositions using a variety
of processes, media, and techniques as well as a
range of subject matter, ideas, and symbols that
successfully communicate their experiences,
values, insights, opinions, emotions, and stories
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Create artworks that demonstrate an
understanding of art elements, principles,
structures, and functions and analyze their
effectiveness in communicating their ideas
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Experiment with and create artworks using a
variety of media, such as drawing, painting,
sculpture, construction, designing, weaving, and
printmaking, and with a variety of materials
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Demonstrate an appropriate level of technical
skill in a variety of visual arts techniques,
including computer graphics, film, photography,
or video
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Use a variety of tools in drawing, painting,
designing, sculpting, constructing, printmaking,
crafts, and weaving, including stencils, clay, wire,
and more
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Create a proportionate model illustrating the
basic principles of building construction
including post and lintel, arch, vaults, dome, and
buttress
Historical and Cultural Context
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Discuss how history, culture, and visual arts
influence each other and are a reflection of
times, places, and cultures
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Discuss the role of the arts in reflecting life
including needs, values, and beliefs
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