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Physical Education
Physical
Education builds healthy bodies and establishes healthy lifestyles by
encouraging physical activity in daily lives. The curriculum includes
learner outcomes in the following areas:
Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living
- muscle endurance
- muscle strength
- flexibility
- cardio-respiratory endurance
- body composition
Responsible Personal and Social Behavior in Physical Activity Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation
- body and spatial awareness
Fundamental Movement Skills and Games
- locomotor/non-locomotor movement
- low organized games/activities with and without manipulatives
- lead-up/team sports games/activities
- lead-up/dual and individual games/activities
Rhythms and Dance
- folk dance
- scatter square dance and line dance
- rhythms and dance - lumni sticks, jump bands
- social dance/dancing through the decades
- creative dance
Outdoor Educational Activities
The K-5 Physical Education Curriculum is aligned to the Missouri Show Me Standards the Missouri Grade Level Expectations and the National Physical Education content standards.
Specific
Grade Level Expectations for each physical education strand can be
viewed on the Missouri Department of Education web site.
http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/PEgle.html
http://dese.mo.gov/divimprove/curriculum/GLE/PEgle.html