Lifetime Fitness Competencies
Competency 1
Students will engage in a physically active lifestyle that helps achieve and maintain a health enhancing level of personal fitness.
Enduring Understandings: *Fit people engage in physical activity on a regular basis.
*Fitness is a process, not a product
Essential Questions: *What can I do to be physically active, and why is this important?
*Why is it important to be physically fit and how can I stay fit?
The intent of this standard is the establishment of patterns of regular participation in meaningful physical activity. This standard connects what is done in the physical education class with the lives of students outside the classroom. Although participation within the physical education class is important, what the student does outside the physical education class is crucial to developing an active, healthy lifestyle that has the potential to help prevent a variety of problems among future generations of adults. Students make use of the skills and knowledge learned in physical education class as they engage in regular physical activity outside the physical education class. They demonstrate effective self-management skills that enable them to participate in physical activity on a regular basis. The development of students’ knowledge, skills and willingness to accept responsibility for personal fitness, leading to an active, healthy lifestyle. Students develop higher levels of basic fitness and physical competence as needed for many work situations and active leisure participation. Health-related fitness components include cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition.
Curricular Outcome: Students will participate regularly in physical activity and will incorporate fitness and wellness concepts to achieve and maintain a health- enhancing level of physical fitness.
Competency 2
Students will design and participate in a fitness program that is tailored to their needs and abilities.
Enduring Understandings. *The best choices for you fit who you are and what you need.
Essential Questions: *How will physical activity help me now and in the future?
The student will develop an awareness of the intrinsic values and benefits of participation in physical activity that provides personal meaning. Physical activity provides opportunities for self-expression and social interaction and can be enjoyable, challenging and fun. These benefits develop self-confidence and promote a positive self-image, thereby enticing people to continue participation in activities throughout their life span.
Curricular Outcome: Students will choose physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction to sustain a physically active lifestyle.
Competency 3
Students will demonstrate how physical activity provides an opportunity to challenge themselves and for positive social interaction
Enduring Understandings: *Behaving well is as important as playing well.
Essential Questions: *How do I interact with others during physical activity?
The intent of this standard is the achievement of self-initiated behaviors that promote personal and group success in activity settings. These include safe practices, adherence to rules and procedures, etiquette, cooperation and teamwork, ethical behavior and positive social interaction. Key to this standard is developing respect for individual similarities and differences through positive interaction among participants in physical activity. Similarities and differences include characteristics of culture, ethnicity, motor performance, disabilities, physical characteristics (e.g., strength, size, shape), gender, age, race and socioeconomic status.
Curricular Outcome: Students will exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.
Competency 1
Students will engage in a physically active lifestyle that helps achieve and maintain a health enhancing level of personal fitness.
Enduring Understandings: *Fit people engage in physical activity on a regular basis.
*Fitness is a process, not a product
Essential Questions: *What can I do to be physically active, and why is this important?
*Why is it important to be physically fit and how can I stay fit?
The intent of this standard is the establishment of patterns of regular participation in meaningful physical activity. This standard connects what is done in the physical education class with the lives of students outside the classroom. Although participation within the physical education class is important, what the student does outside the physical education class is crucial to developing an active, healthy lifestyle that has the potential to help prevent a variety of problems among future generations of adults. Students make use of the skills and knowledge learned in physical education class as they engage in regular physical activity outside the physical education class. They demonstrate effective self-management skills that enable them to participate in physical activity on a regular basis. The development of students’ knowledge, skills and willingness to accept responsibility for personal fitness, leading to an active, healthy lifestyle. Students develop higher levels of basic fitness and physical competence as needed for many work situations and active leisure participation. Health-related fitness components include cardio-respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition.
Curricular Outcome: Students will participate regularly in physical activity and will incorporate fitness and wellness concepts to achieve and maintain a health- enhancing level of physical fitness.
Competency 2
Students will design and participate in a fitness program that is tailored to their needs and abilities.
Enduring Understandings. *The best choices for you fit who you are and what you need.
Essential Questions: *How will physical activity help me now and in the future?
The student will develop an awareness of the intrinsic values and benefits of participation in physical activity that provides personal meaning. Physical activity provides opportunities for self-expression and social interaction and can be enjoyable, challenging and fun. These benefits develop self-confidence and promote a positive self-image, thereby enticing people to continue participation in activities throughout their life span.
Curricular Outcome: Students will choose physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and/or social interaction to sustain a physically active lifestyle.
Competency 3
Students will demonstrate how physical activity provides an opportunity to challenge themselves and for positive social interaction
Enduring Understandings: *Behaving well is as important as playing well.
Essential Questions: *How do I interact with others during physical activity?
The intent of this standard is the achievement of self-initiated behaviors that promote personal and group success in activity settings. These include safe practices, adherence to rules and procedures, etiquette, cooperation and teamwork, ethical behavior and positive social interaction. Key to this standard is developing respect for individual similarities and differences through positive interaction among participants in physical activity. Similarities and differences include characteristics of culture, ethnicity, motor performance, disabilities, physical characteristics (e.g., strength, size, shape), gender, age, race and socioeconomic status.
Curricular Outcome: Students will exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings.