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NEW YORK STATE STANDARDS
Intermediate-Middle School Physical Education
Students will perform basic motor and manipulative skills. They will attain competency in a variety of physical activities and proficiency in a few select complex motor and sports activities. Students will design personal fitness programs to improve cardio respiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, endurance, and body composition.
Students:
2A - demonstrate competency in a variety of physical activities (games, sports, exercises) that provide conditioning for each fitness area
2B - know that motor skills progress in complexity and need to be used in the context of games and sports with additional environmental constraints
2C - combine and integrate fundamental skills and adjust technique based on feedback, including self-assessment
2D - understand the relationship between physical activity and the prevention of illness, disease, and premature death
2E - develop and implement a personal fitness plan based on self-assessment and goal setting, understand physiological changes that result from training, and understand the health benefits of regular participation in activity
2F - develop leadership, problem solving, cooperation, and team work by participating in group activities.