Curriculum Map Middle School Team Passing Net/Wall Personal Fitness and Wellness Team Challenges and Outdoor Activities Soccer Volleyball Combatives Project Adventure Football Badminton Tae-Bo--7,8 Orienteering Team Handball Tchoukball Step Aerobics--6 Cross Country Field Hockey Handball Juggling Skiing Floor Hockey The President's La Crosse Etc. Challenge Frisbee Circuit Training Etc. Speedball Low-Organized Games Scooter Games Basketball Jump Rope for Heart Hoops for Heart Educational Karate Program Target Dance and Aesthetics Golf Square Dance Baseball Frisbee Golf Line Dance Kickball La Crosse- Gymnastics Punchball Baseball Floor Exercises Softball Archery Striking and Fielding Wiffleball Etc. Etc. Etc.
Middle School Map: Dance and Aesthetics 1. How can you follow the music and stay with your partner? 2. Can you create your own routine, using what you have learned? 3. What can you do to perform safely and fully? 1. History of and explanation of Dance 2. Information on warm-ups in general and for sport specific muscle groups 1. General Square Dance and Line Dance steps 2. Basic gymnastics moves 3. Specific stretches for specific body areas or for general warm ups.
Middle School Map: Net/Wall 1. Can you strike a ball hit at you and return it to a targeted area successfully? 2. Can you work together as a team to return a ball to a specific area? 1. Personal/General space 2. Adapted rules for play 3. for the sport 1. Serving underhand, overhead 2. Rotation and/or positioning 3. Pass, spike, set, hit 4. Teamwork 2. Written Test 3. See example 3
Middle School Map: Personal Performance Activities 1. What did you learn about your heart rate and its differences at rest and at work? 2. How can you use your physical skills to help others? 3. How can you improve your physical fitness? 1. The President s Fitness Challenge 2. 3. American Heart Association challenges 4. Personal challenges 1. Pulse taking 2. Certain steps for both Tae-Bo and basic aerobics 3. Basic Juggling skills 4. Basic Karate skills 1. Self-assessment 2. Teacher observation 3. Student-created routines 4. See examples 1 and 5
Middle School Map: Striking/Fielding 1. Using either your hand or a bat, can you hit a ball being pitched to you? 2. Can you hit that ball in such a way that you gain an offensive advantage? 3. What defensive strategies or skills can you use to help your team? 1. Equipment necessary for safe participation in the game 2. Rules for the game being played 3. necessary to play successfully 4. Scorekeeping with official softball score sheets 1. Throwing and catching 2. Fielding grounders and outfield catches 3. Base running 4. Batting, bunting, kicking, striking with hand 5. Positioning for fielding 2. Team Sport Packets 3. assessments with rubrics 4. See example 4 s
Middle School Map: Target Essential Question 1. Can you successfully hit the target? 1. Correct positioning of body 2. Correct swing/throw/draw 3. Correct follow through 4. Knowledge of rules and scoring 1. Throwing a Frisbee and a La Crosse ball 2. Catching a Frisbee and a La Crosse ball 3. Aiming at and shooting an arrow 4. Putting a golf ball 5. Golf strokes for short and long distance 2. Written Test 3. Group discussion peer assessment
Middle School Map: Team Challenges and Outdoor Activities 1. What activities can you participate in outside of school that will keep you physically active and that you will enjoy? 2. How can you help your group solve the problem assigned to them? 3. Can you be open to risk-taking activities for maximum class participation? 4. What can you do to make this activity fun and safe for everyone? 1. Explanations of skills needed, or directions given, to accomplish the assigned task 2. Safety guidelines 3. How to fix and/or care for equipment 1. How to follow instructions 2. How to read a compass 3. Arm/leg coordination for the skiing starting, gliding, herringbone, stopping 2. Completion of task 3. See example 8
Middle School Map: Team Passing 1. How can you cooperate to teach another student? 2. How can you utilize team passing sport skills? 1. 2. Offensive and Defensive concepts 3. Safety and Sport guidelines 4. Appropriate manship for both players and spectators 5. Care of and appreciation for equipment 1. Passing, catching 2. Dribbling with feet, with hands, and with a stick 3. Punting 4. Running preset patterns or plays 5. Shooting at a target goal, net on ground, net in air 2. Written Test 3. Team Sport Packets 4. See examples 2 and 7