Grade 3 PE Maryland Standards

Social Interaction

Self-Expression and Enjoyment

Challenge

Health

Safety

Rules and Etiquette

Working with Others

Accepting Feedback

Corrective Feedback

Personal Responsibility

Assessment and Program Planning

Fitness Knowledge

Physical Activity Engagement

Physical Activity Knowledge

Strategies and Tactics

Speed, Direction, and Force

Pathways, Shapes, and Levels

Space

Jumping Rope

Striking in Combination

Catching with a Long-Handled Implement

Throwing with a Long-Handled Implement

Striking with a Long-Handled Implement

Catching with a Short-Handled Implement

Striking with a Short-Handled Implement

Overhead Volley

Underhand Volley

Kicking

Dribbling in Combination

Passing and Receiving with Feet

Dribbling with Feet

Dribbling with Hands

Catching

Passing with Hands

Overhand Throw

Underhand Throw

Rolling a Ball

Balance and Weight Transfers

Combinations with Levels, Shapes, Extensions, Pathways, Force, Time, & Flow

Curling and Stretching; Twisting and Bending

Weight Transfer

Balance

Combinations

Dance

Jumping and Landing - Horizontal & Vertical

Jogging and Running for Distance

Hopping, Galloping, Jogging, Running, Sprinting, Sliding, Skipping, and Leaping

Motor Skills and Movement Patterns

Leaps using a mature pattern.

Combines balance and weight transfers with movement concepts to create and perform a dance.

Rolls a ball to a partner or target, demonstrating most of the critical elements with reasonable accuracy.

Throws underhand to a partner or target with reasonable accuracy, demonstrating most of the critical elements.

Throws overhand, demonstrating most of the critical elements, in non-dynamic environments (closed skills), for distance and/or force.

This skill becomes a developmentally appropriate practice beginning in 4th grade.

Catches a gently tossed hand-size ball from a partner, demonstrating most of the critical elements.

Dribbles with the hand and travels in general space at slow to moderate jogging speed with control of the ball and body.

Dribbles with the feet and travels in general space at slow to moderate jogging speed with control of the ball and body.

Passes and receives a ball with the insides of the feet to a stationary partner, giving on reception before returning the pass.

This skill becomes a developmentally appropriate practice beginning in 4th grade.

Travels while showing differentiation between sprinting and running.

Uses a continuous running approach and kicks a stationary ball for accuracy while demonstrating most of the critical elements.

Volleys an object with an underhand or sidearm striking pattern, sending it forward over a net, to the wall, or over a line to a partner, while demonstrating most of the critical elements.

This skill becomes a developmentally appropriate practice beginning in 4th grade.

Strikes an object with a short-handled implement while demonstrating most of the critical elements.

Strikes an object with a short-handled implement, sending it forward over a low net or to a wall.

Catches a gently tossed ball, demonstrating most of the critical elements while using a short-handled implement.

Strikes a ball with a long-handled implement off a tee or tossed by the teacher, sending it forward, while demonstrating some of the critical elements.

Throws with a long-handled implement to a stationary target, demonstrating some of the critical elements.

Catches a self-toss or underhand thrown ball, using some of the critical elements, with a long-handled implement.

This skill becomes a developmentally appropriate practice beginning in 4th grade.

Performs intermediate jump-rope skills for both long and short ropes in increasingly complex environments.

Jumps and lands in the horizontal and vertical planes using a mature pattern.

Performs developmentally appropriate dance steps and movement patterns.

Performs a teacher-led sequence of locomotor skills, transitioning from one skill to another smoothly and without hesitation.

Balances on different bases of support, demonstrating muscular tension and extensions of free body parts.

Transfers weight from feet to hands for momentary weight support

Moves into and out of gymnastics balances with curling, twisting, and stretching actions.

Combines locomotor skills and movement concepts to create and perform a dance.

Concepts and Strategies

Recognizes the concept of open spaces in a movement context.

Recognizes locomotor skills specific to a wide variety of physical activities.

Combines movement concepts with skills as directed by the teacher.

Applies simple strategies and tactics in chasing activities and fleeing activities.

Health-Enhancing Level of Physical Activity and Fitness

Charts participation in physical activities outside physical education class.

Identifies physical activity as a way to become healthier.

Engages actively in the activities of physical education class without teacher prompting.

Describes the concept of fitness and provides examples of physical activity to enhance fitness.

Recognizes the importance of warm-up and cool-down relative to vigorous physical activity.

Calculates heart rate per minute.

Discusses and performs specific activities that show the FITT principle guidelines of type and intensity.

Demonstrates, with teacher direction, the health-related fitness components.

RESPONSIBLE PERSONAL AND SOCIAL BEHAVIOR

Exhibits personal responsibility in teacher-directed activities.

Works independently for extended periods of time.

Describes how skills will develop over time with appropriate practice.

Interprets and applies feedback using verbal and visual cues to show improved performance in a variety of skills.

Accepts and implements skill-specific corrective feedback from the teacher.

Works cooperatively with others.

Praises others for their success in movement performance.

Recognizes the role of rules and etiquette in physical activity with peers.

Works independently and safely in physical activity settings.

Recognizes the Value of Physical Activity

Discusses the relationship between physical activity and good health.

Discusses the challenges that come from learning a new physical activity.

Reflects on the reasons for enjoying selected physical activities.

Describes the positive social interactions that come when engaged with others in physical activity.