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Standard Identifier: PE-1.4.8

Grade: 1
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Explain that strengthening muscles will help prevent injury and that strong muscles will produce more force.

Standard Identifier: PE-1.4.9

Grade: 1
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Discuss how prolonged physical activity increases endurance, allowing movement to occur for longer periods of time.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.3.3

Grade: 2
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Perform abdominal curl-ups, modified push-ups, oblique curl-ups, forward and side lunges, squats, and triceps push-ups from a chair or bench to enhance endurance and increase muscle efficiency.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.3.4

Grade: 2
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students assess and maintain a level of physical fitness to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Traverse the overhead ladder one bar at a time.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.10

Grade: 2
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Identify muscles being strengthened during the performance of particular physical activities.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.11

Grade: 2
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Identify which activities or skills would be accomplished more efficiently with stronger muscles.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.12

Grade: 2
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Explain the role that weight-bearing activities play in bone strength.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.9

Grade: 2
Cluster: Muscular Strength/Endurance

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate knowledge of physical fitness concepts, principles, and strategies to improve health and performance.

Standard:
Describe how muscle strength and muscle endurance enhance motor skill performance.

Standard Identifier: PE-3.1.15

Grade: 3
Cluster: Rhythmic Skills

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate the motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.

Standard:
Perform a line dance, a circle dance, and a folk dance with a partner.

Standard Identifier: PE-3.2.6

Grade: 3
Cluster: Rhythmic Skills

Overarching Standard:
Students demonstrate knowledge of movement concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activities.

Standard:
Define the terms folk dance, line dance, and circle dance.

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