SPARK Alignment with Texas Physical Education Standards
Grade 6 (MS Version 2011)
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(1) Movement. The student demonstrates competency in movement patterns and proficiency in a few
specialized movement forms.
(A) Perform locomotor skills in
dynamic fitness, sport, and
rhythmic activities.
Specific Unit Teacher
Rubrics Create a Routine
(Aerobic Capacity)
Create a 4-Wall
Line Dance
Flag Pulling
Fitness
Dance
Football
(B) Use relationships, levels, speed,
direction, and pathways effectively
in complex group and individual physical activities such as crouching
low for volleyball digs, stretching
high during lay-ups, positioning for
a soccer pass, or passing ahead of a
receiver.
Specific Unit Teacher
Rubrics 3-on-3 Basketball
Mini-Soccer
Mini-Volleyball
Basketball
Soccer
Volleyball
(C) Perform sequences that
combine traveling, rolling,
balancing, and weight transfer into
smooth, flowing sequences.
Stunts and Tumbling
Teacher Rubric Creating
Combinations
Stunts and Tumbling Buffet
Create a Routine
Stunts and Tumbling
(D) Move in time to complex
rhythmical patterns such as 3/4
Dance Teacher Rubric Rev Up the
Electric Slide Dance
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
time or 6/8 time. The Korobushka Jigsaw
The Norwegian Polka
(E) Design and refine a jump rope
routine to music.
Jump Rope Teacher
Rubric Create a Routine
Create a Routine Showcase
Jump Rope
(F) Throw a variety of objects demonstrating both accuracy and
distance such as frisbee, softball,
and basketball.
Specific Unit Teacher Rubrics
Partner Passing
Distance and Accuracy
Fly Out Throw Out
Basketball
Flying Disc
Softball
(G) Strike a ball to a wall or a
partner with a paddle/racquet using
forehand and backhand strokes
continuously.
Racquets and Paddles
Self Check, Peer coach,
Teacher Rubric
Serve, Return, Catch
Extreme Rally
Volley Tennis
Racquets and Paddles
(H) Strike a ball using a golf club or
a hockey stick consistently so it
travels in an intended direction and
height.
Golf and Hockey Self
Check, Peer coach,
Teacher Rubric
Putting to Targets
Target Golf
Shooting Drills
Golf
Golf
Hockey
(I) Hand and foot dribble while
preventing an opponent from
stealing the ball.
Basketball and Soccer
Self Check, Peer coach,
Teacher Rubric
3-on-3 Basketball
Dribble Keep Away
Keep Away (3-on-1)
Basketball
Soccer
Soccer
(J) Keep an object in the air without catching it in a small group
World Games and Volleyball Self Check,
Sepak Takraw
Volley Tennis
World Games
Volleyball
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
such as volleyball and football. Peer coach, Teacher
Rubric Mini-Volleyball Volleyball
(K) Throw and catch a ball
consistently while guarded by an
opponent.
Football, World
Games, and Basketball
Self Check, Peer coach,
Teacher Rubric
Under Pressure
Modified Team Handball
3-Catch with a Post Player
Football
World Games
Basketball
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(2) Movement. The student applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of
motor skills.
(A) Know that appropriate practice
in static and dynamic setting,
attention, and effort are required
when learning movement skills.
Various Units: Self
Check Individual
Juggling (Sepak
Takraw)
Target Practice (Kin-Ball®)
Corner-to-Corner Pass and Go
World Games
World Games
Soccer
(B) Make appropriate changes in
performance based on feedback to
improve skills.
Various Units: Peer
Coach Long Rope Skills 1
and 2
Target Golf
Target Ball
Jump Rope
Golf
Handball
(C) Practice in ways that are Various Units: Self The Korobushka Dance
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
appropriate for learning skills such
as whole/part/whole, shorter
practice distributed over time is
better than one long session, or
practicing is best in game-like conditions.
Checks, Teacher
Rubrics
Jigsaw
Introduction to the Forehand
Stroke
Sepak Pass and Serve
Racquets and Paddles
World Games
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(3) Physical activity and health. The student exhibits a health enhancing, physically -active lifestyle that
provides opportunities for enjoyment and challenge.
(A) Identify opportunities in the school and community for regular
participation in physical activity.
Personally Fit Activity Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Personally Fit Personally Fit
(B) Participate in moderate to
vigorous health-related physical
activities on a regular basis.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Gotta Have Heart
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and Medicine Ball
Workout
Combining Aerobic Capacity and
Flexibility
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Body Composition Circuit
(C) Establish and monitor progress
toward appropriate personal fitness
goals in each of the components of
health-related fitness such as
personal logs, group projects, and
no space/or criterion referenced
tests.
Personally Fit
(D) Identify and know how to use technological tools used for
measuring and monitoring fitness
parameters such as computer
programs, heart rate monitors, skin-
fold calipers, and impedance testing
equipment.
Create A Routine (Fitness Aerobic Capacity) Extension: Heart Rate Monitors
Gotta Have Heart
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Heart Rate Highway
Daytona 2000
Create a Routine (Aerobic
Capacity)
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(4) Physical activity and health. The student knows the benefits from involvement in daily physical activity and
factors that affect physical performance.
(A) Describe selected long-term Sample debrief Fun and Fitness ASAP
benefits of regular physical activity. question:
What are some benefits from participating in fitness activities? In team activities? In learning specific sport skills?
Circuit
SPARK Events
Throw and Sprint
Circuit
Various Units
Track
(B) Classify activities as being
aerobic or anaerobic. Create a Routine (Fitness/Aerobic Capacity) Wellness Integration
Combining
Aerobic Capacity
and Flexibility
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Create a Routine
(Aerobic
Capacity)
Fitness
(C) Describe the effects of aerobic
exercise on the heart and overall
health.
Gotta Have Heart Extension: Recovery Heart Rate
Gotta Have Heart
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Heart Rate Highway
Fitness
(D) Analyze effects of exercise on
heart rate through the use of
manual pulse checking and
recovery rates, heart rate monitors,
perceived exertion scales, and/or
computer-generated data.
Create A Routine (Fitness Aerobic Capacity) Extension: Heart Rate Monitors
Gotta Have Heart
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Heart Rate Highway
Daytona 2000
Create a Routine
(Aerobic
Capacity)
Fitness
(E) Identify each health-related Fitness Unit Written Basic Exercise Fitness
fitness component and describe
how participating in cardiovascular
endurance, muscular strength and
endurance, and flexibility actions
impact personal fitness.
Test
Sample debrief
question:
What are some activities that are effective in improving each of the health-related physical fitness components?
Techniques
Balancing Strength and Flexibility
Circuit
Combining Aerobic Capacity
and Flexibility
(F) Identify specific foods that
contain protein, vitamins, and
minerals that are key elements to
optimal body function.
Sample debrief
question: Why are proteins important for endurance activities? Can you identify foods that contain protein?
Body Composition
Circuit
Body Composition
BINGO
Build a Pyramid
Nutrition Team Challenge
Fruit Smoothie
Fitness
(G) Recognize the effects of
substance abuse on personal health
and performance in physical
activity. Substance abuse not specifically addressed in SPARK curriculum
(H) Analyze ways outside
influences affect decisions about
care of the body such as alcohol
and tobacco advertising and peer
pressure.
(I) Recognize that idealized images
of the human body and performance as presented by the
media may not be appropriate to
Sample debrief
question: What types of body images are often
Body Composition
Circuit
Body Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(5) Physical activity and health. The student understands and applies safety practices associated with physical
activities.
(A) Use equipment safely and
properly. Stunts and Tumbling
Teacher Rubric Advanced
Progressions
Partner Stunts Stunts and Tumbling
(B) Select and use proper attire that
promotes participation and
prevents injury.
Personally Fit Personally Fit Personally Fit
(C) Include warm-up and cool-
down procedures regularly during
exercise; monitor potentially
dangerous environmental conditions such as wind, cold, heat,
and insects; and recommend
prevention and treatment.
Sample debrief
question: What are some precautions you can take when exercising in extreme heat?
Range of Motion
Individual Warm-Up Routines
Partner Warm-Up Routines
Fitness
Jump Rope
Jump Rope
imitate.
by the media? Are they appropriate to imitate?
Composition
BINGO
Build a Pyramid
Nutrition Team Challenge
Fruit Smoothie
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(D) Identify potentially dangerous
exercises and their adverse effects
on the body.
Sample debrief
question:
What types of stretches are unsafe? Why?
Basic Exercise
Techniques
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and Medicine Ball
Workout
Fitness
(E) Explain water safety and basic
rescue procedures.
Aquatics not specifically addressed in SPARK curriculum
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(6) Social development. The student understands basic components such as strategies and rules of structured
physical activities including, but not limited to, games, sports, dance, and gymnastics.
(A) Know basic rules for sports
played such as setting up to start,
restarting, violating rules.
Unit Written Tests Singles/Doubles Game Play
Royal Court
Quick-Play Mini-Football
Handball
Racquets and Paddles
Football
(B) Keep accurate score during a contest.
Singles/Doubles Game Play
A Round of Golf
Handball
Golf
Racquets and
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Singles/Doubles Game Play
Paddles
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(7) Social development. The student develops positive self-management and social skills needed to work
independently and with others in physical activity settings.
(A) Participate in establishing rules,
procedures, and etiquette that are
safe and effective for specific activity situations.
Teacher Rubric
(Cooperatives) Problem-Solver
Adventure Race
Adventure Racing 101
Hoopla Adventure Race
Cooperatives
(B) Handle conflicts that arise with
others without confrontation.
Teacher Rubric, Self
Check (Cooperatives)
Coulda, Woulda,
Shoulda (Various
Units)
SPARK Event
SPARK Event
SPARK Event
Racquets and Paddles
Handball
Volleyball
(C) Identify and follow rules while
playing sports and games.
Unit Written Tests Singles, Doubles Game Play
Singles, Doubles Game Play
Disc Golf
Handball
Racquets and Paddles
Flying Disc
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(D) Accept decisions made by game
officials such as student, teachers,
and officials outside the school.
Teacher Rubric, Self
Check (Cooperatives) 3-on-3 Basketball
Mini-Hockey
7v7 Modified Softball
Basketball
Hockey
Softball
(E) Accept successes and
performance limitations of self and
others, exhibit appropriate
behavior responses, and recognize
that improvement is possible with
appropriate practice.
Teacher Rubric, Self
Check (Cooperatives)
Coulda, Woulda,
Shoulda (Various
Units)
Corridor
Challenge
Radioactive River
Logjam
Cooperatives
(F) Modify games/activities to
improve the game/activity.
Teacher Rubric Volleyball Xtreme
Modified Cricket
Modified Team Handball
Volleyball
World Games
World Games
SPARK Alignment with Texas Physical Education Standards
Grade 7 (MS Version 2011)
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(1) Movement. The student demonstrates competency in movement patterns and proficiency in a few
specialized movement forms.
(A) Coordinate movements with
teammates to achieve team goals.
Cooperatives:
Peer Coach
Self Check
Teacher Rubric
Indiana Jones
Cross the Great Divide
Kin-Ball Sport
Cooperatives
Cooperatives
World Games
(B) Demonstrate appropriate
relationships to an opponent in
dynamic game situations such as
staying between opponent and
goal and moving between opponent and the ball.
Teacher Rubrics Defenders of the Cone
Zone Defense
Zone and Person Defenses
World Games
Hockey
Soccer
(C) Demonstrate appropriate speed and generation of force such as
running sprints, running distance,
throwing a disc, jumping, kicking.
Peer Coach (Track)
Self-Check (Track)
Teacher Rubric (Track)
Sprinting
Hurdling
Jumps
Shot Put
800m Run
1600m Run
Track
(D) Perform selected folk, country,
square, line, creative, and/or
aerobic dances.
Dance:
Teacher Rubric
Self Check
Peer Coach
La Bomba Poco Loco
Hip Hop Basic Moves Jigsaw
Merengue Mixer!
Dance
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(E) Design and perform sequences
of dance steps/movements in
practiced sequences with
intentional changes in speed,
direction, and flow.
Dance:
Teacher Rubric
Self Check
Peer Coach
Create a Hip Hop Routine
Create your own Merengue Move
Dance
(F) Demonstrate, without cue, critical elements in specialized skills
related to sports such as overhand
throw for distance/force, serving
and bumping, volleyball, shooting
a basketball, shooting a lay-up,
forehand and backhand, striking
with a racket or club, or batting.
Teacher Rubrics
Self Checks Peer Coach
Beat the Ball
Forearm Pass (Bump)
Extreme Rally
Softball
Volleyball
Racquets and Paddles
(G) Combine skills competently to
participate in modified versions of
team and individual sports.
Teacher Rubrics
Self Checks
Peer Coach
Quick-Play Mini-Football
Modified Team Handball
7V7 Modified Softball
Football
World Games
Softball
(H) Demonstrate introductory
outdoor pursuit skills such as
backpacking, rock climbing,
orienteering, hiking, canoeing,
cycling, or ropes courses.
Outdoor pursuit skills not specifically addressed in SPARK curriculum
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(2) Movement. The student applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of
motor skills.
(A) Create and modify activities
that provide practice of selected
skills to improve performance such
as practice with non-dominant hand, practice specific game
situations, or practice jumps or
cartwheels in both directions.
Select Units:
Self Check, Peer Coach Serve, Return,
Catch
Volleyball Stations
Ball Control Drills
Racquets and Paddles
Volleyball
Soccer
(B) Identify and apply similar
movement concepts and elements
in a variety of sport skills such as
throwing and tennis serving.
Sample debrief
question:
How can you apply your racquet skills to handball? To volleyball?
Introduction to the Serve
Introduction to
the Handball Serve
Serving Challenges
Racquets and Paddles
Handball
Volleyball
(C) Describe the importance of goal
setting in improving skill.
Sample debrief
question: Why is it a good idea to set a specific goal when you want to improve a skill?
Advanced Shots
Target Golf
Disc Throwing Stations
Handball
Golf
Flying Disc
(D) Detect and correct errors in
personal or partner's skill
performance.
Unit Peer Coach, Self
Check Hammer Throw
and 1-Handed C
Catch
Partner Passing
Batting Practice
Flying Disc
Basketball
Softball
(E) Make appropriate changes in
performance based on feedback. Unit Peer Coach, Self Hammer Throw Flying Disc
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Check and 1-Handed C
Catch
Partner Passing
Batting Practice
Basketball
Softball
(F) Identify and apply basic
biomechanical principles such as lowering the center of gravity and
widening the base of support.
Self Check
Peer Coach Teacher Rubrics
Advanced Progressions
Partner Stunts
Stunts and Tumbling
Stunts and Tumbling
(G) Use basic offensive and
defensive strategies while playing a
modified version of a sport.
Teacher Rubrics Modified Team Handball
Under Pressure
Keep Away (3 on 2)
World Games
Football
Basketball
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(3) Physical activity and health. The student exhibits a health enhancing, physically-active lifestyle that
provides opportunities for enjoyment and challenge.
(A) Participate in games, sports,
dance, and/or outdoor pursuits in
and outside of school based on
individual interests and/or capabilities.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Personally Fit Personally Fit
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(B) Identify favorite lifelong
physical activities.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Personally Fit Personally Fit
(C) Participate in moderate to
vigorous health-related physical
activities on a regular basis.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Gotta Have Heart
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and Medicine Ball
Workout
Combining Aerobic Capacity and
Flexibility
Body Composition Circuit
Fitness
(D) Evaluate personal fitness goals
and make appropriate changes for
improvement.
Personally Fit
(E) Select and use appropriate technology tools to evaluate,
monitor, and improve physical
development.
Create A Routine (Fitness Aerobic Capacity) Extension: Heart Rate Monitors
Gotta Have Heart
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Heart Rate Highway
Daytona 2000
Create a Routine (Aerobic
Capacity)
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(4) Physical activity and health. The student knows the benefits from involvement in daily physical activity and
factors that affect physical performance.
(A) List long-term physiological and
psychological benefits that may
result from regular participation in physical activity.
Sample debrief
question:
What are some benefits from participating in fitness activities? In team activities? In learning specific sport skills?
Fun and Fitness Circuit
SPARK Events
Throw and Sprint
Circuit
ASAP
Various Units
Track
(B) Assess physiological effects of
exercise during and after physical
activity.
Personally Fit (C) Match personal physical
activities to health-related fitness
components.
(D) Analyze the strength and
weaknesses of selected physical
activities.
(E) Identify proteins, fats,
carbohydrates, water, vitamins, and
minerals as key elements found in
foods that are necessary for optimal
body function.
Fitness Unit Written
Test Body
Composition
Circuit
Body Composition
BINGO
Build a Pyramid
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Nutrition Team Challenge
Fruit Smoothie
(F) Identify and apply basic weight
training principles and safety
practices such as appropriate goals,
appropriate weight and repetitions,
body alignment, principle of
frequency, intensity, and time, and
importance of balance in muscle
pairs.
Fitness Unit Written
Test Basic Exercise
Techniques
Fitness in the Middle
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and
Medicine Ball
Workout
Fitness
(G) Describe and predict the effects
of fitness-related stress management
techniques on the body.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Cardio Dance Day
Introduction to Yoga
Introduction to Pilates
Dance
Fitness
Fitness
(H) Explain the effects of eating
and exercise patterns on weight
control, self-concept and physical
performance.
Fitness Unit Written
Test Body
Composition
Circuit
Body Composition
BINGO
Build a Pyramid
Nutrition Team Challenge
Fruit Smoothie
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(I) Recognize the effects of
substance abuse on personal health
and performance in physical
activity.
Substance Abuse not specifically addressed in SPARK curriculum
Standard
Suggested Assessments
Sample SPARK Activities
Corresponding SPARK Unit
(5) Physical activity and health. The student understands and applies safety practices associated with physical
activities.
(A) Use equipment safely and
properly. Stunts and Tumbling
Teacher Rubric Advanced
Progressions
Partner Stunts Stunts and Tumbling
(B) Select and use proper attire that promotes participation and
prevents injury.
Personally Fit Personally Fit Personally Fit
(C) Include warm-up and cool-
down procedures regularly during
exercise; monitor potentially
dangerous environmental
conditions such as wind, cold, heat,
and insects; and recommend
prevention and treatment.
Sample debrief
question: What are some precautions you can take when exercising in extreme heat?
Range of Motion
Circuit
Individual Warm-
up Routines
Partner Warm-up Routines
Fitness
Jump Rope
Jump Rope
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(D) Analyze exercises for their
effects on the body such as
beneficial/potentially dangerous.
Sample debrief
question:
What types of stretches are unsafe? Why?
Basic Exercise
Techniques
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and Medicine Ball
Workout
Fitness
(E) Recognize harmful effects of the
sun such as sunburn, heatstroke,
heat exhaustion, and heat cramps
and recommend prevention
methods.
Sample debrief
question: What are some precautions you can take when exercising in extreme heat?
Gotta Have Heart
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Heart Rate
Highway
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(6) Social development. The student understands basic components such as strategies and rules of structured
physical activities including, but not limited to, games, sports, dance, and gymnastics.
(A) Distinguish between compliance
and noncompliance with rules and regulations and apply agreed upon
consequences when officiating.
Coulda, Woulda,
Shoulda (Various Units)
FIBA World Championships
WFDF World Overall Flying
Disc
Championship
Basketball
Flying Disc
Racquets and Paddles
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Singles, Doubles Game Play
(B) Describe fundamental
components and strategies used in
net/wall, invasion, target, and
fielding games such as net/wall
alternating the speed and direction
of the ball, invasion-fakes, give and
go, target-concentration, feel the movement, and fielding-back up
other players.
Unit Written Tests Volley Tennis
Mini-Hockey
Give and Go with
Post Players
Racquets and Paddles
Hockey
Basketball
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(7) Social development. The student develops positive self-management and social skills needed to work
independently and with others in physical activity settings.
(A) Solve problems in physical
activities by analyzing causes and
potential solutions.
Cooperative Self
Check, Peer Coach,
Teacher Rubric
Cross the Great Divide
Corridor Challenge
Log Jam
Cooperatives
(B) Work cooperatively in a group
to achieve group goals in
competitive as well as cooperative
Cooperative Self
Check, Peer Coach,
Teacher Rubric
Indiana Jones
Final Cooperative Adventure Race
Cooperatives
Cooperatives
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
settings. Kin-Ball Sport World Games
(C) Accept decisions made by game
officials such as student, teachers,
and officials outside the school.
Cooperative Self
Check, Peer Coach,
Teacher Rubric
3-on-3 Basketball
7v7 Modified
Softball
Royal Court
Basketball
Softball
Racquets and Paddles
(D) Use peer interaction positively
to enhance personal physical
activity and safety such as encourage friends and joins teams.
Coulda, Woulda,
Shoulda (Various
Units)
2 V 1 Just for Fun
Partner Stunts
Radio Control
World Games
Stunts and Tumbling
Cooperatives
(E) Recognize the role of games,
sport, and dance in getting to know
and understand others.
Cooperative Unit
Written Test Hip Hop Basic
Moves Jigsaw
Partner Trick Circuit
Karrimor
International
Mountain
Marathon
Dance
Jump Rope
Cooperatives
SPARK Alignment with Texas Physical Education Standards
Grade 8 (MS Version 2011)
Standard
Suggested Assessments
Sample SPARK Activities
Corresponding SPARK Unit
(1) Movement. The student demonstrates competency in movement patterns and proficiency in a few
specialized movement forms.
(A) Coordinate movements with
teammates to achieve team goals.
Cooperatives:
Peer Coach
Self Check
Teacher Rubric
Indiana Jones
Cross the Great
Divide
Kin-Ball Sport
Cooperatives
Cooperatives
World Games
(B) Demonstrate appropriate
relationships of the body to an
opponent in dynamic game
situations such as staying between opponent and goal and moving
between opponent and the ball.
Teacher Rubrics Defenders of the Cone
Zone Defense
Zone and Person Defenses
World Games
Hockey
Soccer
(C) Demonstrate appropriate speed
and generation of force such as
running sprints, running distance,
throwing a disc, jumping, or
kicking.
Peer Coach
(Track)
Self-Check
(Track)
Teacher Rubric
(Track)
Sprinting
Hurdling
Jumps
Shot Put
800m Run
1600m Run
Track
(D) Perform selected folk, country,
square, line, creative, and/or
aerobic dances.
Dance:
Teacher Rubric
Self Check
Peer Coach
Corazon Espinado
Poco Loco
Hip Hop Basic Moves
Jigsaw
Dance
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Swing Sweetheart
(E) Design and perform sequences
of dance steps/movements into
practiced sequences with
intentional changes in speed,
direction, and flow.
Dance:
Teacher Rubric
Self Check
Peer Coach
Create a Hip Hop Routine
Create Your Own Swing Moves
Dance
(F) Demonstrate without cue,
critical elements in specialized skills
related to sports such as overhand
throw for distance/force, serving and bumping, volleyball, shooting
a basketball, shooting a lay-up,
forehand and backhand striking
with a racket or club, or batting.
Specific Unit:
Teacher Rubrics
Self Checks
Peer Coach
Beat the Ball
Forearm Pass (Bump)
Extreme Rally
Softball
Volleyball
Racquets and Paddles
(G) Combine skills competently to
participate in modified versions of
team and individual sports.
Specific Unit:
Teacher Rubrics
Self Checks
Peer Coach
Quick-Play Mini-Football
Modified Team Handball
7V7 Modified Softball
Football
World Games
Softball
(H) Demonstrate introductory outdoor pursuit skills such as
backpacking, rock climbing,
orienteering, hiking, canoeing,
cycling, or ropes courses.
Outdoor pursuit activities not specifically addressed in SPARK curriculum
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(2) Movement. The student applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of
motor skills.
(A) Create and modify activities
that provide practice of selected
skills to improve performance such
as practice with non-dominant hand, practice specific game
situations, and practice jumps or
cartwheels in both directions.
Select Units:
Self Check, Peer Coach Serve, Return,
Catch
Volleyball Stations
Ball Control Drills
Racquets and Paddles
Volleyball
Soccer
(B) Identify and apply similar
movement concepts and elements
in a variety of sport skills such as
throwing and tennis serving.
Sample debrief
question:
How can you apply your racquet skills to handball? To volleyball?
Introduction to the Serve
Introduction to
the Handball Serve
Serving Challenges
Racquets and Paddles
Handball
Volleyball
(C) Describe the importance of goal
setting in improving skill.
Sample debrief
question: Why is it a good idea to set a specific goal when you want to improve a skill?
Advanced Shots
Target Golf
Disc Throwing Stations
Handball
Golf
Flying Disc
(D) Detect and correct errors in
his/her or partner's skill
performance.
Unit Peer Coach, Self
Check Hammer Throw
and 1-Handed C
Catch
Partner Passing
Batting Practice
Flying Disc
Basketball
Softball
(E) Make appropriate changes in
performance based on feedback. Unit Peer Coach, Self Hammer Throw Flying Disc
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Check and 1-Handed C
Catch
Partner Passing
Batting Practice
Basketball
Softball
(F) Identify and apply basic
biomechanical principles such as lowering the center of gravity and
widening the base of support to
increase stability.
Self Check
Peer Coach Teacher Rubrics
Advanced Progressions
Partner Stunts
Stunts and Tumbling
Stunts and Tumbling
(G) Use basic offensive and
defensive strategies while playing a
modified version of a sport.
Teacher Rubrics Modified Team Handball
Under Pressure
Keep Away (3 on 2)
World Games
Football
Basketball
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(3) Physical activity and health. The student exhibits a health enhancing, physically-active lifestyle that
provides opportunities for enjoyment and challenge.
(A) Describe and select physical
activities that provide for
enjoyment and challenge.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Personally Fit Personally Fit
(B) Identify opportunities in the Personally Fit Activity Personally Fit Personally Fit
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
school and community for regular
participation in physical activity.
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
(C) Participate in games, sports, dance, and/or outdoor pursuits in
and outside of school based on
individual interests and/or
capabilities.
Personally Fit Activity Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
3-on-3 Basketball
Double Dutch
Create a Hip Hop Routine
Basketball
Jump Rope
Dance
(D) Identify favorite lifelong
physical activities. Personally Fit
(E) Participate in moderate to
vigorous physical activity for a
sustained period of time on a
regular basis.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Gotta Have Heart
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and
Medicine Ball Workout
Combining Aerobic Capacity
and Flexibility
Body
Composition
Circuit
Fitness
(F) Maintain healthy levels of
flexibility.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Range of Motion Circuit
Balancing Strength and Flexibility
Circuit
Introduction to Yoga
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Introduction to Pilates
Combining
Aerobic Capacity
and Flexibility
(G) Develop and maintain muscular
strength and endurance of the
arms, shoulders, abdomen, back,
and legs.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Basic Exercise Techniques
Fitness in the Middle
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and Medicine Ball
Workout
Balancing Strength
and Flexibility
Circuit
Fitness
(H) Evaluate personal fitness goals
and make appropriate changes for
improvement.
Personally Fit
(I) Select and use appropriate
technology tools to evaluate, monitor, and improve physical
development.
Create A Routine (Fitness Aerobic Capacity) Extension: Heart Rate Monitors
Gotta Have Heart
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Heart Rate Highway
Daytona 2000
Create a Routine
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(Aerobic
Capacity)
Standard
Suggested Assessments
Sample SPARK Activities
Corresponding SPARK Unit
(4) Physical activity and health. The student knows the benefits from involvement in daily physical activity and
factors that affect physical performance.
(A) List long-term physiological and
psychological benefits that may
result from regular participation in
physical activity.
Sample debrief
question:
What are some benefits from participating in fitness activities? In team activities? In learning specific sport skills?
Fun and Fitness
Circuit
SPARK Events
Throw and Sprint
Circuit
ASAP
Various Units
Track
(B) Select aerobic exercises and
describe the effects on the heart
and overall health.
Fitness Unit Written
Test Gotta Have Heart
Aerobic Capacity Circuit
Heart Rate Highway
Combining
Aerobic Capacity
and Flexibility
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(C) Assess physiological effects of
exercise during and after physical
activity.
Personally Fit
(D) Identify proteins, fats,
carbohydrates, water, vitamins, and
minerals as key elements found in foods that are necessary for optimal
body function.
Fitness Unit Written
Test Body
Composition
Circuit
Body Composition
BINGO
Build a Pyramid
Nutrition Team Challenge
Fruit Smoothie
Fitness
(E) Identify and apply basic weight
training principles and safety
practices such as appropriate goals,
appropriate weight and repetitions,
body alignment, principle of
frequency, intensity and time, and
importance of balance in muscle pairs.
Fitness Unit Written
Test Basic Exercise
Techniques
Fitness in the Middle
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and
Medicine Ball
Workout
Fitness
(F) Describe and predict the effects
of stress management techniques on
the body.
Personally Fit Activity
Challenge:
In the Mood to Move
Cardio Dance Day
Introduction to Yoga
Introduction to Pilates
Dance
Fitness
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(G) Explain the effects of eating and
exercise patterns on weight control,
self-concept, and physical
performance.
Fitness Unit Written
Test Body
Composition
Circuit
Body Composition
BINGO
Build a Pyramid
Nutrition Team Challenge
Fruit Smoothie
Fitness
(H) Recognize the effects of
substance abuse on personal health
and performance in physical
activity.
Substance Abuse not specifically addressed in SPARK curriculum
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(5) Physical activity and health. The student understands and applies safety practices associated with physical
activities.
(A) Use equipment safely and
properly. Stunts and Tumbling Teacher Rubric
Advanced Progressions
Partner Stunts Stunts and Tumbling
(B) Select and use proper attire that
promotes participation and Personally Fit Personally Fit Personally Fit
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
prevents injury.
(C) Include warm-up and cool-
down procedures regularly during
exercise; monitor potentially
dangerous environmental
conditions such as wind, cold, heat, and insects; and recommend
prevention and treatment.
Sample debrief
question: What are some precautions you can take when exercising in extreme heat?
Range of Motion Circuit
Individual Warm-up Routines
Partner Warm-up Routines
Fitness
Jump Rope
Jump Rope
(D) Analyze exercises for their
effects on the body such as
beneficial/potentially dangerous.
Sample debrief
question:
What types of stretches are unsafe? Why?
Basic Exercise
Techniques
Resistance Band Workout
Stability Ball and Medicine Ball
Workout
Fitness
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(6) Social development. The student understands basic components such as strategies and rules of structured
physical activities including, but not limited to, games, sports, dance, and gymnastics.
(A) Distinguish between compliance and noncompliance rules and
regulations and apply agreed upon
consequences when officiating.
Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda (Various
Units)
FIBA World Championships
WFDF World Overall Flying
Basketball
Flying Disc
Racquets and
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
Disc
Championship
Singles, Doubles Game Play
Paddles
(B) Describe fundamental
components and strategies used in
net/wall, invasion, target, and
fielding games such as alternating
the speed and direction of the ball, invasion-fakes, give and go, target-
concentration, feeling the
movement, and fielding-back up
other players.
Unit Written Tests Volley Tennis
Mini-Hockey
Give and Go with Post Players
Racquets and Paddles
Hockey
Basketball
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
(7) Social development. The student develops positive self-management and social skills needed to work
independently and with others in physical activity settings.
(A) Solve problems in physical
activities by analyzing causes and
potential solutions.
Cooperative Self
Check, Peer Coach,
Teacher Rubric
Cross the Great Divide
Corridor Challenge
Log Jam
Cooperatives
(B) Work cooperatively in a group
to achieve group goals in
Cooperative Self
Check, Peer Coach, Indiana Jones
Final Cooperative
Cooperatives
Cooperatives
Standard
Suggested
Assessments
Sample SPARK
Activities
Corresponding SPARK
Unit
competitive as well as cooperative
settings
Teacher Rubric Adventure Race
Kin-Ball Sport
World Games
(C) Identify and follow rules while
playing sports and games.
Cooperative Self
Check, Peer Coach,
Teacher Rubric
3-on-3 Basketball
7v7 Modified Softball
Royal Court
Basketball
Softball
Racquets and
Paddles
(D) Accept decisions made by game
officials including student, teachers, and officials outside the school.
Coulda, Woulda,
Shoulda (Various Units)
2 V 1 Just for Fun
Partner Stunts
Radio Control
World Games
Stunts and Tumbling
Cooperatives
(E) Use peer interaction positively
to enhance personal physical
activity and safety such as
encourage friends and join teams.
Cooperative Unit
Written Test Hip Hop Basic
Moves Jigsaw
Partner Trick Circuit
Karrimor
International
Mountain
Marathon
Dance
Jump Rope
Cooperatives