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Standard Identifier: PE-1.4.4

Grade: 1
Cluster: Aerobic Capacity

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

Standard:
Recognize that the heart is the most important muscle in the body and is approximately the size of a fist.

Standard Identifier: PE-1.4.5

Grade: 1
Cluster: Aerobic Capacity

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

Standard:
Explain that increasing the heart rate during physical activity strengthens the heart muscle.

Standard Identifier: PE-1.4.6

Grade: 1
Cluster: Aerobic Capacity

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

Standard:
Identify physical activities that cause the heart to beat faster.

Standard Identifier: PE-1.4.7

Grade: 1
Cluster: Aerobic Capacity

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

Standard:
Describe the role of blood in transporting oxygen from the lungs.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.3.2

Grade: 2
Cluster: Aerobic Capacity

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

Standard:
Participate three to four times each week, for increasing periods of time, in moderate to vigorous physical activities that increase breathing and heart rate.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.3.5

Grade: 2
Cluster: Flexibility

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

Standard:
Demonstrate the proper form for stretching the hamstrings, quadriceps, shoulders, biceps, and triceps.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.13

Grade: 2
Cluster: Flexibility

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

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

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.14

Grade: 2
Cluster: Flexibility

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

Standard:
Explain why it is safer to stretch a warm muscle rather than a cold muscle.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.6

Grade: 2
Cluster: Aerobic Capacity

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

Standard:
Compare and contrast the function of the heart during rest and during physical activity.

Standard Identifier: PE-2.4.7

Grade: 2
Cluster: Aerobic Capacity

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

Standard:
Describe the relationship between the heart and lungs during physical activity.

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