MYP Course Outline -
Level: (7,8)
Course Title: Physical Education- Beginning Middle Years Program
Course Description: The Eagle Rock Middle School physical education program is designed to offer students a wide variety of opportunity to understand that physical activity provides enjoyment, challenges, self-expression, and social interaction. An emphasis will be placed on rules and procedures for the field, gymnasium, and courts with safety placed at the highest importance. Also how to use equipment and space properly, while learning the importance of playing, cooperating, and respecting others regardless of personal differences (e.g., gender, ethnicity, disability) during physical activity. 7th and 8th graders will work on personal fitness goals, and concentrate on individual, dual, and small team sports (lead in games) in an effort to build large team sport skills.
MYP Aims Addressed by this Course:
The aims of the teaching and study of MYP physical education are to encourage and enable students to develop:
- an appreciation and understanding of the value of physical education and its relationship to a healthy, balanced lifestyle
- an interest in the promotion of health and wellness
- the motivation to participate fully in all aspects of physical education
- their optimal level of physical fitness
- effective communication strategies, verbal, non-verbal and written
- the skills and understanding necessary to participate successfully in a variety of physical activities, for example, learning, practising, refining, adapting, thinking, interacting
- the ability to reflect critically on all aspects of physical education, including being a critical performer
- an understanding of international perspectives on physical activity, sport and health education
- a lifelong interest in and enjoyment of physical activities as a participant.
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Time
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Instructional Units
for the Year
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Essential and/or Guiding Questions
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Area of Interaction
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Assessment
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Weeks
1-3
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Orientation
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How can you help create a safe environment in which everyone feels comfortable participating in physical education class?
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Environments-
Environment will be our first area of interaction. The students will explore Eagle Rock Jr/Sr High school in addition to Yosemite Park recreation area.
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Students will be assessed using Social Skills and personal engagement by:
1.Teacher observation
2. Written reflection assignment.
3. Exploration Assignment Project
4. Navigation Map Creation Assignment.
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Weeks 4-10
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Personal Fitness
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How can you improve your personal fitness skills?
What is your resting heart rate?
What is your target heart rate?
How can I use my physical fitness test scores to improve my fitness levels?
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Health and Social Education will be the focus for our area of interaction because the direct connection between fitness and health.
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Students will be assessed using the fitness tests from the California State fitness test. Students will be quizzed on intermediate strength terms, and fitness concepts and terminology.
Students will calculate resting, and target heart rates.
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Weeks 11-21
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Small Team Sport Games
(Lead up games)
Students will work together in small groups to develop skills that lead to larger team sports and games.
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How can you develop individual skills that will help you improve in areas you are weak (visual, kinesthetic, auditory)?
How do efficient sport specific skills and strategies help in larger games (team play)?
How can we as a class improve our communication and teamwork skills?
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Community and Service
By using community and service as our area of interaction we can take advantage of being a 7-12 grade school by using 9-12 grade PE students to mentor and teach the younger students the correct way to cooperate and work as a team.
This will benefit both the middle and intermediate level PE students.
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Students will be assessed using teacher observations (focusing on cooperation, communication, and teamwork), individual goal setting, and Peer Evaluations by our older students.
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Weeks 22-31
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Net and Racquet Sports
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How can you improve your individual racquet skills?
How can you improve your individual competitive skill level and performance as it relates to racquet skills?
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Health and Social Education
Racquet sports are great life long games that students can do throughout their lives. Tennis and paddle courts are available to the public free our low cost, and are an easy way to promote life long fitness goals.
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Students will be assessed using specific (criterion based) videotape analysis for their tennis serve, and forehand stroke.
Students must also analyze other students videos in order to pick out strengths and flaws with their peers serve and forehand strokes.
Students will be given written assessments that cover court layouts for singles and doubles games, including scoring, and rules.
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Weeks 32-40
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Movement and Dance
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What are the different dances used by different cultures?
Where does Salsa dancing come from?
What historic period was the swing dancing most popular?
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Community and Service
Students will learn different dances used by different cultures in the community, and the world.
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Students will be assessed using criteria based checklist while performing, folk (square and circle dancing), latin dances, the swing, ballroom etc.
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