Physical Education Content Standards and Benchmarks

	MICHIGAN CONTENT STANDARDS & BENCHMARKS
	Physical Education

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VISION

Physical Education is a sequential educational program that provides students with the knowledge, skills, fitness, and attitudes necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle.

A physically educated person who participates in health-enhancing physical activity:

demonstrates competence in selected motor skills;
assesses, achieves, and maintains physical fitness;
applies cognitive concepts in making wise lifestyle choices; and
exhibits appropriate personal-social character traits while participating in physical activity.

CONTENT STANDARDS

All students will:
Motor Skills (link to benchmarks)	1.	demonstrate selected fundamental object control skills;
	2.	demonstrate selected postural, nonlocomotor, and body control (movement) skills;
	3.	demonstrate selected fundamental rhythmical skills;
	4.	demonstrate selected fundamental rhythmical skills;

*Physical Fitness* (link to benchmarks)	5.	participate successfully in selected health-enhancing, lifelong physical activities;
	6.	develop and maintain healthy levels of cardiorespiratory endurance;
	7.	develop and maintain healthy levels of muscular strength and endurance;
	8.	develop and maintain healthy levels of flexibility of selected joints of the body;
	9.	develop and maintain healthy levels of body composition;

*Cognitive Concepts* (link to benchmarks)	10.	apply the concepts of body awareness, time, space, direction, and force to movement;
	11.	explain and apply the essential steps in learning motor skills;
	12.	describe the effects of activity and inactivity and formulate examples of lifestyle choices that result in the development and maintenance of health related fitness;

*Personal and Social Character Traits* (links to benchmarks)	13.	demonstrate appropriate behavior related to selected personal/social character traits that commonly emerge in a physical activity context; and
	14.	value physical activity and its contribution to lifelong health and well-being