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Standard Identifier: PE-1.4.12

Grade: 1
Cluster: Body Composition

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

Standard:
Identify the body components (e.g., bones, muscles, organs, fat, and other tissues).

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-2.3.6

Grade: 2
Cluster: Body Composition

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

Standard:
Engage in moderate to vigorous physical activity for increasing periods of 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-2.4.15

Grade: 2
Cluster: Body Composition

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

Standard:
Describe the differences in density and weight between bones, muscles, organs, and fat.

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