Grade 3 PE Missouri Standards

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

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).

Identify health related fitness components.

Forms of 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).

Rhythms and Dance

Rhythmic Activities

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

Body Management

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

Skill Techniques

Treatment

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

Personal/Social Responsibilities

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

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

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

Developmental Games

Physical Activity and Lifetime Wellness

Movement Concepts

Fitness Principles

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

Recognize body signals that indicate injury and seek assistance.

Define and differentiate between tempo and beat.

Prevention

Efficiency of Human Movement and Performance

Responsible Personal and Social Behavior in the Physical Activity Setting

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

Essential Elements of Rhythm

Creative/Interpretive

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

Sport Skills and Lifetime Activities

Body Systems

Apply fundamental and specialized skills in lead-up games.

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

Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation

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

Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living

Specialized Activities

Fundamental Movement Skills and Games

Demonstrate simple dance mixers (changing partner).

Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness

Manipulative Skills

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

Demonstrate combination of tumbling skills.

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

Wellness