Grade 4 PE Maryland Standards

Social Interaction

Self-Expression and Enjoyment

Challenge

Health

Safety

Rules and Etiquette

Working with Others

Accepting Feedback

Corrective Feedback I

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

Demonstrates various locomotor skills in a variety of small-sided practice tasks, dance, and educational gymnastics experiences.

Combines traveling with balance and weight transfers to create a gymnastics sequence.

Using a three-step approach, rolls a ball to a partner or target, demonstrating a mature pattern.

Throws underhand to a partner or target with reasonable accuracy, demonstrating a mature pattern.

Throws overhand, demonstrating a mature pattern in non-dynamic environments.

Throws overhand to a partner or at a target with accuracy at a reasonable distance.

Throws to a moving partner with reasonable accuracy in a nondynamic environment.

Catches a thrown ball above the head, at chest or waist- level, and below the waist using a mature pattern in a non-dynamic environment.

Dribbles in personal space with both the preferred and the nonpreferred hands, demonstrating a mature pattern.

Dribbles in general space, alternating hands while increasing and decreasing speed and demonstrating a mature pattern.

Dribbles with the feet in general space with control of ball and body while increasing and decreasing speed.

Passes and receives a ball with the insides of the feet to a moving partner in a nondynamic environment.

Passes and receives a ball with the outsides and insides of the feet to a stationary partner.

Dribbles with hands or feet in combination with other skills.

Runs for distance using a mature pattern.

Kicks along the ground and in the air and punts, demonstrating a mature pattern.

Volleys underhand using a mature pattern in a non-dynamic environment.

Volleys a ball with a two-hand overhead pattern, sending it upward, demonstrating most of the critical elements.

Strikes an object with a short-handed implement while demonstrating a mature pattern.

Strikes an object with a short-handled implement, alternating hits with a partner over a low net or against a wall.

Catches a ball at different levels using a mature pattern in a non-dynamic environment while using a short-handled implement.

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

Throws with a long-handled implement, demonstrating most of the critical elements, in a non-dynamic environment for distance and/or force.

Catches a ball at different levels off a wall, using most of the critical elements, with a long-handled implement.

Combines traveling with the manipulative skills of dribbling, throwing, catching, and striking in teacher-and/ or-student-designed small-sided practicetask environments.

Creates a jump-rope routine with either a short or a long rope.

Uses spring and step takeoffs and landings specific to gymnastics.

Combines locomotor movement patterns and dance steps to create and perform an original dance.

Combines traveling with manipulative skills of dribbling, throwing, catching, and striking with a partner in teacher-and/or student-designed small-sided practice tasks.

Balances on different bases of support on an apparatus, demonstrating levels and shapes.

Transfers weight from feet to hands, varying speed and using large extensions.

Moves into and out of balances on an apparatus with curling, twisting, and stretching actions.

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

Concepts and Strategies

Applies the concept of open spaces to combination skills involving traveling.

Applies the concept of closing spaces in small-sided practice tasks.

Dribbles in general space with changes in direction and speed.

Combines movement concepts with skills in small-sided practice tasks, gymnastics, and dance environments.

Applies the movement concepts of speed, endurance, and pacing for running.

Applies the concepts of direction and force when striking an object with a short-handled implement, sending it toward a designated target.

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

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

Recognizes the types of kicks needed for different games and sports situations.

Health-Enhancing Level of Physical Activity and Fitness

Analyzes opportunities for participating in physical activity outside physical education class.

Engages actively in the activities of physical education class, both teacher-directed and independent.

Identifies the components of health-related fitness.

Demonstrates a warmup and cool-down relative to an aerobic capacity/cardiovascular endurance activity.

Calculates heart rate per minute and records the results.

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

Completes pre and post- health-related fitness assessments.

Identifies areas of needed remediation from the results of a personal test and with teacher assistance, identify strategies for progress in those areas.

Responsible Personal and Social Behavior

Exhibits responsible behavior in independent group situations.

Reflects on personal social behavior in physical activity.

Explains how skills will develop over time with appropriate practice.

Provides feedback to illustrate errors in a peer's skill performance.

Listens respectfully to corrective feedback from others.

Praises the movement performance of others both more skilled and less skilled.

Includes players of all skill levels into the physical activity.

Exhibits etiquette and adherence to rules in a variety of physical activities.

Works safely with peers in physical activity settings.

Recognizes the Value of Physical Activity

Examines the health benefits of participating in physical activity.

Rates the enjoyment of participating in challenging and mastered physical activities.

Ranks the enjoyment of participating in different physical activities.

Describes and compares the positive social interactions when engaged in partner, small-group, and largegroup physical activities