Grade 7 PE Missouri Standards

Apply terminology, scoring, etiquette, safety principles, and rules appropriate for outdoor pursuits and recreational activities.

Personal/Social Responsibilities

Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living

Outdoor Pursuits/Recreational Activities

Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation

Investigate the health, fitness and sport industry careers (e.g., panel of community members, personal interviews, internet research).

Fundamental Movement Skills and Games

Prevention

Identify proper protective equipment used in physical activities.

Treatment

Responsible Personal and Social Behavior in the Physical Activity Setting

Careers

Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness

Fitness Principles

Individual, Dual and Team Sports

Design an exercise routine to accompany music that emphasizes fitness components (e.g., jump rope, aerobics, line dance).

Apply basic offensive and defensive strategies in a modified game setting.

Apply fundamental movement skills to create a simple movement sequence (e.g., locomotor, non-locomotor, self-expression, self-evaluation).

Sport Skills and Lifetime Activities

Wellness

Movement Concepts

Demonstrate an increased level of competence in a variety of physical activities (e.g., gymnastics, aquatics).

Discuss the cultural and historic context of at least one dance form.

Creative/Interpretive

Identify physiological changes that occur in the body due to stress (e.g., sweating, eye twitching, rapid pulse, irregular heartbeat).

Apply terminology, scoring, etiquette, player position and equipment, safety principles and game rules for individual, dual and team sports.

Body Systems

Identify the FITT principle (frequency, intensity, time, type) and how it relates to exercise.

Analyze activities to determine whether they promote health-related fitness, skill-related fitness, or both.

Rhythms and Dance

Select appropriate conflict resolution skills in a physical activity setting (e.g., self-control, respect, peer influence).

Rhythmic Activities

Explain how participation in specific activities improves the circulatory, respiratory, muscular, and skeletal systems (e.g., weight bearing exercises improve bone strength, how muscles are strengthened).

Efficiency of Human Movement and Performance

Social/Cultural Aspects of Dance

Apply critical elements of movement to various activities (e.g., transfer of learning, swing, throwing, strike, biomechanics).

Physical Activity and Lifetime Wellness

Recognize non-life threatening injuries and explain how to provide basic care inside and outside the physical activity setting (e.g., Heimlich Maneuver, RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation).

Identify caloric value of a variety of foods and determine exercise needed to expend this energy.

Specialized Activities