Illinois Learning Standards
Stage F - Physical Development
Descriptors
19A —
Students who meet the standard can demonstrate physical competency in individual and team sports, creative movement, and leisure and work-related activities.
- Create combinations of locomotor/non-locomotor movement and manipulative skills in selected activities.
- Demonstrate locomotor/non-locomotor skills while manipulating objects.
- Practice combinations of sport related skills using correct form.
- List specific elements of proper form for various sport skills.
- Use vocabulary specific to activities, games, or sport.
19B —
Students who meet the standard can analyze various movement concepts and applications.
- Develop movement skills that demonstrate mechanically correct form (moving into position, establishing a balanced base, preparatory phase, movement phase, follow through, and return to base).
- Define additional biomechanical principles (e.g., spin, rebound).
- Apply concepts of effort, flow, space, and time into establishment of mechanically correct form (moving into position, establishing a balanced base, preparatory phase, movement phase, follow through, and return to base).
19C—
Students who meet the standard can demonstrate knowledge of rules, safety and strategies during physical activity.
- Adhere to safety procedures during activity.
- Create safety rules for specific activities, games, or sports.
- Discuss the potential consequences of participating in a safe and unsafe environment during activity.
- Demonstrate cooperative strategies during activity.
- Apply offensive, defensive, and cooperative strategies in selected activities, games, or sports.
- Follow rules when participating in a wide variety of activities, games, or sports.
- Define the components of good sportsmanship.
20A—
Students who meet the standard know and can apply the principles and components of health-related fitness.
- Discuss the effects of physical activity on current and future health.
- Perform physical activity that will benefit cardiovascular fitness, flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance.
- Participate in health-enhancing levels of physical activity on a daily basis.
- Participate in a progression of activities that will maintain or improve personal fitness levels.
20B —
Students who meet the standard can assess individual fitness levels.
- Compare one's rate of perceived exertion to one's heart rate after activity.
- Participate in a variety of assessments in addition to Fitnessgram.
- Match health-related fitness components to a valid assessment of each component.
- Define and evaluate: target heart rate zone, maximum heart rate, resting heart rate, recovering heart rate, and rate of perceived exertion.
- Explain how to figure out target heart rate zone.
20C —
Students who meet the standard can set goals based upon fitness data and develop, implement, and monitor an individual fitness improvement plan.
- Select an additional health-related fitness goal and based on Fitnessgram results, write a list of activities to accomplish the goal.
- Monitor progress in reaching the goal.
21A —
Students who meet the standard can demonstrate individual responsibility during group physical activities.
- List what the different roles are that students have in group physical activity.
- Identify components of the decision-making process (i.e., D.E.C.I.D.E model).
- Demonstrate the ability to remain on task when participating in physical activity.
- Explain all the rules of safety and why each rule is important in group physical activity.
- Engage in safe physical activity when a leader is officiating (e.g., apply safety procedures and rules).
- Create rules for physical activities.
- List individual behaviors that can positively and/or negatively affect the success of a group.
21B —
Students who meet the standard can demonstrate cooperative skills during structured group physical activity.
- Identify and define characteristics of an effective leader.
- Identify a variety of supportive roles within a cooperative group setting.
- Identify responsible decision-making skills regarding use of time and rules application.
- Identify the steps in a decision-making model.
- Respect decisions made by others in activity concerning rules, procedures, and process.
- Work cooperatively with others.
- Recognize individual differences in performance within a group.
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