Course Details
Physical Education and Health (Grade 6)
Review key course information and curriculum options.
Course Information
- Subject Area
- Physical, Health, and Safety Education
- State Course Code
- 08036N
- Length
- Two Semesters
- Total Hours
- 180
This course teaches grade-level appropriate health and safety principles that can lead to a lifetime of healthy practices, resulting in more productive, active, and successful lives. Washington State requires that all students, grades 1-8, receive an average of one hundred instructional minutes per week per year in physical education.
Learning Goals
- The student develops mature movement skills.
- The student understands safety rules and proper use of equipment in a variety of physical activities.
- The student understands the components of health and skill-related fitness and interprets information from feedback and self-evaluation in order to improve performance.
- The student develops a better understanding of how eating healthy foods help him/her improve physical and mental performance.
- The student understands and recognizes the physical, social and emotional aspects of healthy living.
- The student develops a greater understanding of the functions of organ systems, how they affect growth and development and particularly how to maintain a balance of life’s choices such as stress, sleep and nutrition.
- The student acquires skills to live safely and reduce health risks introducing the topics of positive and negative peer pressure and conflict resolution.
- The student understands how culture, family (adoption, grandparents, single parent) and environment factors affect personal health.
- The student understands analyzes and evaluates influences of marketing strategies on health and fitness products.
Choose Curriculum
Physical Education 6
Each community is full of fitness opportunities that enable students to achieve new levels of fitness through sports, dance, aquatics, and more! This course provides a foundation of knowledge, skills, and values students need to develop a physically active lifestyle. A friendly cast of course characters helps guide and enhance each student’s experience. Knowledge about safety rules for exercise, how to improve sports skills, how different activities target different body parts, and how to set and a goal are all part of student learning and participation. Activity choices are plentiful, leading to a healthy and physically active lifestyle. The Presidential Fitness Challenge encourages students to perform their best with a chance to earn the Presidential Fitness award. Students keep a log of physical fitness activities while they explore topics such as diversity in sports, nutrition, peer pressure, and making good choices. A few PE projects deepen students’ understanding of individual health and skill-related fitness, and the world as it relates to games and sports. Students choose various activities to reach goals they may have only dreamed about!
Online
Items
| Name | Kind | ISBN | Returnable | Shared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle School Comprehensive PE 6/7 | Online Class | No | No | |
| Walking Pedometer Activity Fitness Tracker | Other | No | No |
Timeline
01.02 Introduction to Physical Fitness
01.03 Safety First
01.04 Warming Up and Cooling Down
01.05 Health-Related Components of Fitness
01.06 Cardiovascular Activity
01.08 FITT Training Principles
02.01 Do You Have Skills?
02.02 Speed, Agility, and Reaction Time
02.03 Balance and Coordination
02.05 Body Mechanics
02.06 Music and Movement
02.08 Choreography and Improvisation
03.01 Playing with Others
03.03 Individual and Dual Activities
03.04 Group Rhythmic Activities
03.05 Team Sports
03.06 Winning Strategies
04.02 Getting to Your Goals
04.03 Peer Pressure
04.05 Diversity Through Sports
04.06 Nutrition
05.02 Health Information, Products, and Services
05.03 Making Healthy Decisions
05.04 Enhancing One's Health
05.06 Promote Positive Health Choices
Collaboration Project