GRADE SEVEN

STANDARD 1

Students demonstrate the motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.

Manipulative Skills

1.1  Demonstrate mature techniques for the following patterns: overhand, sidearm, and underhand

throwing; catching; kicking/punting; striking; trapping; dribbling (hand and foot); and volleying.

Rhythmic Skills

1.2   Perform multicultural dances.

Combinations of Movement Patterns and Skills

1.3   Combine manipulative, locomotor, and nonlocomotor skills into movement patterns.

1.4   Demonstrate body management and object-manipulation skills needed for successful participation in

        individual and dual physical activities.

1.5   Demonstrate body management and locomotor skills needed for successful participation in track and

        field and combative activities.

• Demonstrate body management and object-manipulation skills needed for successful participation in

introductory adventure/outdoor activities.

STANDARD 2

Students demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.

Manipulative Skills

• Identify and describe key elements in the mature performance of overhand, sidearm, and underhand

throwing; catching; kicking/punting; striking; trapping; dribbling (hand and foot); and volleying.

Movement Concepts

2.2   Analyze movement patterns and correct errors.

2.3   Use principles of motor learning to establish, monitor, and meet goals for motor skill development.

2.4   Explain and demonstrate spin and rebound principles for performing manipulative skills.

2.5   Compare and contrast the effectiveness of practicing skills as a whole and practicing skills in smaller

        parts.

2.6   Diagram and demonstrate basic offensive and defensive strategies for individual and dual physical

        activities.

Combination of Movement Patterns and Skills

2.7  Develop an individual or dual game that uses a manipulative skill, two different offensive strategies,

and a scoring system and teach it to another person.

STANDARD 3

Students assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.

3.1   Assess one’s own muscle strength, muscle endurance, aerobic capacity, flexibility, and body

        composition by using a scientifically based health-related fitness assessment.

3.2   Evaluate individual measures of physical fitness in relationship to patterns of physical activity.

3.3   Develop individual goals, from research-based standards, for each of the five components of

        health-related physical fitness.

3.4   Plan a weekly personal physical fitness program in collaboration with the teacher.

3.5   Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity a minimum of four days each week.

3.6   Assess periodically the attainment of, or progress toward, personal physical fitness goals and make

        necessary adjustments to a personal physical fitness program.

STANDARD 4

Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

4.1   Develop a one-week personal physical fitness plan specifying the proper warm-up and cool-down

        activities

4.2   Identify physical activities that are effective in improving each of the health-related physical fitness

        components.

4.3   Match personal preferences in physical activities with each of the five components of health-related

        physical fitness.

4.4   Explain the effects of physical activity on heart rate during exercise, during the recovery phase, and

        while to body is at rest.

4.5   Describe the role of physical activity and nutrition in achieving physical fitness.

4.6   Identify and apply the principles of overload in safe, age-appropriate activities.

4.7   Explain progression, overload, and specificity as principles of exercise.

4.8   Discuss the effect of extremity growth rates on physical fitness.

STANDARD 5

Students demonstrate and utilize knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity.

Self-Responsibility

5.1   Identify appropriate and inappropriate risks involved in adventure, individual, and dual physical

        activities.

5.2   Accept responsibility for individual improvement.

Social Interaction

5.3   Demonstrate an acceptance of differences in physical development and personal preferences as

        they affect participation in physical activity.

Group Dynamics

5.4   Evaluate the effect of expressing encouragement to others while participating in a group physical

        activity.

5.5   Identify the responsibilities of a leader in physical activity.

*SOURCE: Physical Education Model Content Standards for California Public Schools Kindergarten through Grade Twelve (https://www.cde.ca.gov/be/st/ss/documents/pestandards.pdf)