Grade 3 PE New Mexico Standards

Design a movement sequence/game that includes all members of the group in the success of the activity.

Use physical activity as a measure of self-expression:

Interact with others by helping them successfully complete their small-group physical activity challenges.

Celebrate personal successes and achievements and those of others; and

Cooperate and share with partners in physical activities;

Demonstrate interaction with others while participating in physical activities:

Voluntarily initiate skill practice to improve performance.

Willingly try new activities; and

Practice physical activities to increase skills:

Explain the enjoyable characteristics of small group physical activities.

Identify physical activities that are enjoyable:

Understands that physical activity provides opportunities for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction. Students will:

Identify lifestyle factors that can be controlled and their impact on health and wellness.

Differentiate between body type presented in the media and own healthy body type; and

Recognize how the media, particularly advertising, influences the perception of ideal body types:

Demonstrate the ability to successfully work in a variety of cultural or ethnic activities.

Experience differences and similarities among people of different backgrounds by participating in activities of national, cultural and ethnic origins:

Recognize and value the role of each individual in a small group.

Recognize the talents that individuals with differences can bring to group activities:

Articulate cultural/ethnic self awareness through written, oral or physical expression.

Explore cultural/ethnic self-awareness through participation in physical activity:

Demonstrates understanding and respect for differences among people in physical activity settings. Students will:

Accept consequences of personal choices.

Distinguish between compliance and non-compliance with game rules and fair play; and

Consistently comply with the physical education classroom rules to ensure the physical and emotional safety for all;

Recognize classroom and activity rules; grades K-4 performance standards:

Honestly report the results of independent work.

Work independently and on-task for short periods of time:

Identify and avoid the negative influence of peers.

Recognize the influence of peer pressure and identify ways of resolving conflict:

Demonstrate the ability to teach an activity or skill to a group of classmates;

Work productively with a partner to improve selected motor skills by using the critical elements of the process; and

Work cooperatively and productively with a partner or small group:

Initiate the appropriate use of space in game and activity settings.

Recognize importance of equipment placement and usage during physical education class; and

Utilize safety principles in physical activity settings:

Demonstrates responsible personal and social behavior in physical activity settings. Students will:

Develop strategies to show progress towards at least one personal fitness goal as determined by health-related fitness assessments.

Explain the relationship of body weight, body composition and participation in regular physical activity; and

Begin to interpret the results and demonstrate understanding of the significance of information provided by measures of physical fitness.

Participate in a variety of physical activities in order to improve each component of health-related fitness.

Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activities in a variety of settings:

Select activities designed to improve and maintain levels of fitness in each component of health-related fitness.

Match different types of physical activities with health-related physical fitness components:

Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness. Students will:

Describe how participation in physical activity affects health.

Identify the benefits gained from regular physical activity:

Use information from a variety of sources, internal and external, to regulate their activity participation;

Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity outside of physical education most days of the week; and

Select and participate regularly in health-related physical activities for enjoyment:

Exhibits knowledge and ability to participate in a physically active lifestyle. Students will:

Accurately recognize critical elements of selected skills made by a fellow student and provide positive information and corrective information feedback to that student.

Demonstrate the application of critical cues in selected motor skills; and

Refine movement errors in response to positive information and corrective information feedback;

Repeat cue words for selected motor skills and demonstrate/explain what is meant by each;

Demonstrate critical elements of fundamental and specialized movement skills:

Explain how appropriate practice improves performance.

Identify ways movement concepts can be used to refine movement skills; and

Adapt motor skills to the demands of a dynamic and unpredictable environment;

Demonstrate motor skills, motor behaviors and motor learning concepts in increasingly complex movement situations:

Consistently receive and send an object in an intended direction and height.

Design and perform movement sequences that combine traveling, balancing and weight transfer into smooth sequences with intentional changes in direction (i.e., gymnastics, dance, etc.); and

Demonstrate concepts of body, effort, space and relationships in movement:

Applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills. Students will:

Strike a softly-thrown lightweight ball using a bat, paddle or a variety of body parts.

Throw, catch and kick using mature motor patterns; and

Hand-dribble and foot-dribble a ball and maintain control while traveling within a group;

Travel into and out of a rope turned by others;

Demonstrate competency in selected skills utilizing age-appropriate equipment:

Develop and refine a gymnastics sequence demonstrating smooth transitions.

Balance with control on a variety of objects; and

Transfer weight from feet to hands using controlled movement;

Demonstrate competency in selected non-motor patterns:

Develop patterns and combinations of movements into repeatable sequences.

While traveling, avoid or catch an object or individual; and

Demonstrate mature form in all locomotor patterns;

Demonstrate competency in selected motor skills:

Demonstrates competency in many movement forms and proficiency in a few movement forms. Students will: