Grade 3 PE Missouri Standards

Demonstrate simple dance mixers (changing partner).

Demonstrate simple step patterns (e.g., step-together-step-touch), and scattered formations in dance.

Forms of Dance

Demonstrate rhythmic routines using fundamental movement skills and/or a manipulative (e.g., teacher-directed routine using streamers).

Rhythmic Activities

Demonstrate ability to interpret and move to a variety of music (e.g., fluid and smooth movements, strong and intense movements).

Creative/Interpretive

Define and differentiate between tempo and beat.

Essential Elements of Rhythm

Rhythms and Dance

Demonstrate basic apparatus activities (e.g., balance beam - a forward movement; climbing rope - from a supine position students ascend to a stand and descend to a sit; cargo net - ascending and descending climb to grade level height; parallel/even and uneven bars - under bar activities; horizontal bar - front support; spring board - jump and land).

Specialized Activities

Demonstrate proper techniques for a variety of fundamental skills while practicing with a partner (e.g., realize there was too much force when a ball was overthrown).

Skill Techniques

Sport Skills and Lifetime Activities

Identify appropriate cooperative, social, and teamwork skills while participating in game situations.

Apply fundamental and specialized skills in lead-up games.

Developmental Games

Identify body parts and functions in relationship to movement (e.g., long jump - arms swing forward when legs extend).

Demonstrate a combination of movement concepts while performing various skills (e.g., skipping while dribbling a ball in a curved pathway in general space).

Movement Concepts

Demonstrate basic inverted balances (e.g., tripod, headstand).

Demonstrate combination of tumbling skills.

Body Management

Demonstrate critical elements for manipulative skills (e.g., step forward opposite foot, arm position, step and follow through).

Manipulative Skills

Fundamental Movement Skills and Games

Physical Activity and Lifetime Wellness

Recognize body signals that indicate injury and seek assistance.

Treatment

Recognize appropriate warm-up, cool-down and flexibility activities and the importance of each to injury prevention.

Prevention

Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation

Demonstrate respect for all students regardless of individual differences in skills and abilities.

Personal/Social Responsibilities

Responsible Personal and Social Behavior in the Physical Activity Setting

Show on the body a few of the major bones (e.g., patella, ribs, phalanges, femur).

Body Systems

Describe how the body responds to moderately vigorous physical activities (e.g., heart has to beat faster to meet blood supply demands).

Fitness Principles

Identify benefits of regular participation in a variety of activities (e.g., stress management, weight control).

Wellness

Identify health related fitness components.

Recognize the components of health-related fitness (cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition).

Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness

Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living

Efficiency of Human Movement and Performance