represent data and cites sources of data
•
Use spreadsheet data and graphs to make
predictions, solve problems, and make decisions
in content areas as a class/group
•
Create a graphic organizer to demonstrate
decision-making process
•
Create a graphic organizer to explore cause
and effect relationship
PE/WELLNESS
Physical Wellness
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Understand health risks for age group
•
Understand the incidence of high risk behaviors
for age group
•
Understand own health behaviors
•
Understand the signs of asthma
•
Understand methods by which asthma can be
controlled
•
Understand principles of water survival
•
Understand practices that prevent spinal cord
injury
•
Understand individual behaviors that can harm
or help the health of the environment
•
Understand sources of noise pollution and
preventive measures for hearing impairment
•
Understand how to differentiate between
positive and negative effects of peer pressure
•
Understand the importance of advertising for
tobacco and alcohol
•
Understand common antecedents of substance
abuse
•
Understand short term and long-term benefits
of resistance to substance abuse
•
Understand the sequence of substance abuse
that can lead to serious health risks
•
Understand the immediate social and physical
consequences of tobacco, including spit
tobacco, and other drug abuse
•
Understand how one might encourage a friend
not to be involved in substance abuse
Social/Emotional Wellness
•
Understand “self-concept”
•
Understand criteria to assess the significance of
a decision/problem
•
Project behavioral consequences as a means of
anticipating problems
•
Understand how to cope with failure
appropriately
•
Understand how to initiate requests for help or
assistance from another
•
Understand how to use stress management
through breathing patterns, muscular relaxation,
directing thoughts
•
Understand how to use a structured thinking
process to make decisions and solve problems
•
Understand how to communicate own feelings
•
Understand the importance of attention to and
interest in expressions of others
•
Understand behaviors conducive to and
counterproductive to group functioning
•
Understand nonviolent conflict resolution
strategies
•
Understand abusive relationships and create a
list of resources for seeking help
•
Understand that differences exist between the
behaviors of people of different genders,
cultures, ethnicities, and disabilities
•
Understand the importance of cooperating
with disabled peers and those of different
gender, race, and ethnicity
•
Understand the importance of working
cooperatively with more and less skilled peers
•
Understand the importance of establishing
rules, procedures, and etiquette that are safe
and effective for specific activity situations
•
Understand the importance of making
conscious decisions about applying rules,
procedures, and etiquette
•
Understand the importance of utilizing time
effectively to complete assigned tasks
•
Understand the importance of working
cooperatively and productively in a group to
accomplish a set goal in both cooperative and
competitive activities
Nutrition
•
Understand the dietary guidelines for
Americans and describe the implications of
each on eating behavior
•
Understand common terms on food labels
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and advertising
•
Understand health claims on food labels
•
Understand how being over or under a
healthful weight can be linked to biases
and discrimination
•
Understand that obesity is a disease as well as
a risk factor for other diseases such as diabetes
and cardiovascular disease
•
Understand the increasing external pressures in
adolescence to engage in risk behaviors and
strategies for resistance
Fitness
•
Complete a health related personal fitness test
•
Understand the importance of an
understanding of proper stretching exercises
and muscle strength/endurance exercises
•
Understand the importance of the ability to
perform self-paced aerobic activity, keeping
in an appropriate target heart rate zone and
monitoring recovery rate after the activity
•
Understand the importance of the knowledge
of how to prepare the body before and after
vigorous exercise
•
Understand the importance of a strategy for
the improvement of selected fitness
components
•
Identify opportunities in the school
and community for regular participation in
physical activity
•
Understand the importance of participating
daily in some form of health-enhancing physical
activity
•
Analyze personal interests and capabilities in
regard to one’s exercise behavior
•
Understand the critical aspects of a
healthy lifestyle
•
Demonstrate square, folk, and rhythmic
movement skills
•
Create short movement compositions
•
Perform rolling combinations with gymnastic
movements
•
Create routines that focus on rolling
combinations with variations of positions
•
Demonstrate beginning strategies for net and
invasion games
•
Demonstrate increasing competence in more
advanced specialized skills
•
Adapt and combine skills to demands of
increasingly complex situations of selected
movement forms
•
Understand how to use information from a
variety of sources of internal and external origin
to improve performance
•
Understand how to identify and apply
principles of practice and conditioning that
enhance performance
•
Understand the general characteristics of
movement that can be applied to specific
settings
•
Understand how to use basic understanding of
the knowledge of offensive and defensive
strategies in activity settings
ART
Artistic Perception
•
Identify, define, and analyze different artistic
materials, processes, and techniques
•
Identify and discuss all the elements of art
found in selected artworks
•
Explore the principles of art in the natural world
and in works of art
•
Identify and explain the effects of structure
and function in works of art
•
Identify interactions of art, elements, and
design principles as they contribute to
expressive qualities in an artwork
•
Define and use more complex art vocabulary
including components of art as well as art forms
(portrait, still life, mural, realism, abstraction,
contour, profile, distortion, genre painting,
nonrepresentational, landscape, seascape, and
cityscape)
•
Identify a variety of media and tools in
drawing, painting, designing, sculpting,
constructing, printmaking, crafts, weaving,
sculpture
Creative Expression
•
Produce different compositions using a variety
of processes, media, and techniques as well as a
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