Pelham Schools Elementary Physical Education Curriculum

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Pelham Schools Elementary Physical Education
Curriculum

• K-2nd Movement Education
• 3rd Grade Movement Education-Skill Themes
• 4th Grade Skill Themes
• 5th Grade Sport Education

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A History of Movement Education

• Presidents Fitness tests became the standard
  teaching method as Physical Educators focus on
  teaching to the tests
• Developed in England reached the US in the early
  1960s.
• New emphasis promotes skills and concepts besides
  indirect fitness

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Methodology

• Creativity Cognition Exploration
• Emphasis of instruction is focused on the
  individual student.
• Responsibility of learning shifts
• Allows students of all abilities to experience
  success at some level1
• 1. (Pangrazzi, 2004)

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Movement Education
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Levels Lesson Format

• Problem Show me all the ways you can move the
  bubble gum ball at _______ (low/medium/high)
  level?
• There are no parameters to how the question is
  solved as long as the students perform the
  designated levelNO wrong answer!
• Freedom to be creative and explore different
  means of solving the question
• Use of different body parts in manipulating the
  balloon at the various levels is key

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Levels Lesson

• Introductory terms presented to the students
• Vocabulary learned at this stage will be adapted
  for more complex skills come 3rd grade

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Skill Themes Grades 34
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What are skill themes?

• Graham (1998) describes skill themes as the
  fundamental building blocks to more complex and
  specialized skills.
• Lifetime success and involvement.

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What are some characteristics?

• Game playing rather than skill development
  shown to hinder motor learning (Graham, 1987
  Manross, 1992).
• Can be found anywhere in the curriculum

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Skill Theme Approach

• Inspired by work of movement educator Sheila
  Stanley
• Believed to be effective for ALL children
  (Graham, Holt-Hale, Parker, 2001).
• Focus is on helping children become skillful
  movers
• As children become ready, they begin to combine
  skill themes and movement concepts

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Skill themes and movement concepts (Holyoak
Weinberg, 1988).

• Difficult to focus on a skill theme for very long
  without introducing one or more movement concepts
• Terms skill themes and movement concepts
  differentiate the movements (skill themes) from
  ideas (movement concepts) used to modify each
  skill

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Volleyball lesson . . .

• There is now a right and a wrong way of doing
  things
• We can use previous concepts to develop skills
• Keeps the movement education philosophy, but
  attaches a sport philosophy
• Same end in mind (forearm pass) get there with
  questions!

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Lesson Format(in groups of 3 with a balloon)

• Keep the balloon up using as many body parts as
  possible
• Keep the balloon up with an upper body part
• Q Was it easier using an upper body part or a
  lower body part to have control?

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Narrowing of tasks to teach skill

• Keep the balloon up using your whole arm - one
  arm only
• Keep the balloon up using your arm from elbows to
  wrist
• Keep the balloon up using both arms from elbows
  to wrist
• Q Was it easier to have control using one arm or
  two arms? What does this look like?

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Sport Education5th Grade
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Sport Education

• Students experience what it is to be
• part of a team
• In this model students not only learn more
  completely how to play sports but also to
  coordinate and manage their sport experiences.
  They also learn individual responsibility and
  effective group management skills.1
• 1Siedentop,1994

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Sport Education

• Students experience
• a sport season

"Sport Education provides experiences that are
more complete and authentic than typical P.E.
sport.1 1Siedentop, 1994
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Sport Education

• Developmentally
• Appropriate
• Competition

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K-2nd GradeFITNESS PROGRESSION

• Indirect Fitness
• Movement Education Philosophy
• Developmentally Appropriate Practices

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3rd and 4th Grade FITNESS PROGRESSION

• Introduction of Health Related Fitness Components
• Flexibility
• Cardiorespiratory endurance
• Muscular strength
• Muscular endurance
• Fitness Test

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5th GradeFITNESS PROGRESSION

• Comparison of Fitness Components and Skill
  Components
• Evaluation of Fitness Test
• Creation of Personal Fitness program