Maryland State Standards

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Grade: 4

• 1.0 Exercise Physiology - Students will demonstrate the ability to use scientific principles to design and participate regularly, in a moderate to vigorous physical activity program that contributes to personal health and enhances cognitive and physical performance on a variety of academic, recreational, and life tasks.
• 2.0 Biomechanical Principles - Students will demonstrate an ability to use the principles of biomechanics to generate and control force to improve their movement effectiveness and safety.
• 3.0 Social Psychological Principles - Students will demonstrate the ability to use skills essential for developing self-efficacy, fostering a sense of community, and working effectively with others in physical activity settings.
• 4.0 Motor Learning Principles - Students will demonstrate the ability to use motor skill principles to learn and develop proficiency through frequent practice opportunities in which skills are repeatedly performed correctly in a variety of situations.
• 5.0 Physical Activity - Students will demonstrate the ability to use the principles of exercise physiology, social psychology, and biomechanics to design and adhere to a regular, personalized, purposeful program of physical activity consistent with their health, performance, and fitness goals in order to gain health and cognitive/academic benefits.
• 6.0 Skillfulness - Students will demonstrate the ability to enhance their performance of a variety of physical skills by developing fundamental movement skills, creating original skill combinations, combining skills effectively in skill themes, and applying skills.