Physical Education

Sixth Grade | Seventh Grade

The 7th grade theme is "Taking Acceptable Risks Through Problem Solving".

This transitional period between 6th and 8th grade will encourage appropriate risk taking by providing students exciting new activities that require creative thinking and problem solving in a controlled, safe environment. Students will also be introduced to individual sports as well as team sports. Students will also build upon and use basic motor skills as well as sports specific skills learned from 6th grade Physical Education.

Students will be inroduced to the following:

Engage in individual as well dual sports

Describe ways to use the body and movement activities to communicate ideas and feelings.

Participate in vigorous activity for a sustained period of time while maintaining a target heart rate.

Identifying proper warm-up, conditioning, and cooling-down techniques and the reasons for using them.

Understand the principals of spin and rebound as well as begin to experiment with spins of various types such as: counterclockwise, clockwise, backspin and topspin

Understand how various ball spins can be used to gain strategic advantage in competition.

Concerning motor learning, students should be able to understand that performance is measurable in terms of technique, accuracy, distance, and speed.

Charting their own motor skill development in specific activities and events.

Accept and respect the decisions made by game officials-whether they are students, teachers, or officials outside of school.

FIT guidelines for physical exercise, which are the appropriate frequency, intensity, and time required for benefits to be accrued in each health-fitness component.

Principals of overload, progression, and specificity in physical conditioning