Health & Physical Education

Students combine fundamental skills into more complex movement forms with modified games, dance/rhythms, and recreational activities. Activities include cooperative and competitive small-group games to develop skills and tactical understanding. Students practice to improve skill performance and fitness. Students assess their health-related fitness status and set reasonable and appropriate goals for development, maintenance, and improvement of their overall fitness. Activities emphasize self-improvement, participation, cooperation, respect for others, and sportsmanship. Students solve problems and make responsible decisions as they work together. Students are encouraged to adapt responsible behaviors that lead to a physically active lifestyle at school and outside the school environment. Health education includes 6th Grade Health Units, Character Playbook (Everfi), Nutrition, Social/Emotional Health and Violence Prevention, Safety and Injury Prevention, and Family Life Education.

Students continue to develop competence in modified versions of games/sports, dance/rhythms, and recreational activities. Recreational pursuits are emphasized, broadening lifetime physical activity options. Students relate the importance of physical activity to health. They create plans for improving personal fitness. Students continue to develop responsible personal and social behaviors by demonstrating decision-making skills, conflict-resolution skills, appropriate etiquette, and respect for others. Students achieve and maintain personal fitness standards and set reasonable and appropriate goals for improvement or maintenance of health-related fitness. Health education covers wellness and healthy living, violence prevention, safety and prevention of injury, mental and emotional health, disease of the body, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and family life education.

Students demonstrate competence in skillful movement in modified and more complex dynamic game/sport situations, dance/rhythm activities, and recreational activities. Students demonstrate mature responsibility as they show respect for others, make reasoned and appropriate choices, resist negative peer pressure, and exhibit fair play. Students set goals, track progress, and participate in physical activities to improve health-related fitness. They develop a repertoire of abilities across a variety of games/sport and recreational pursuits and begin to develop competence in specialized versions of lifetime games, sports, and dance activities. Health education covers the topics of wellness and healthy living, violence prevention, safety and prevention of injury, mental and emotional health, body systems, alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs, and family life education.