Skill Descriptor: Refine movement concepts with a variety of activities alone and with others.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Practise complex dance patterns, steps, and sequences individually and/or with a partner
• Create rhythmic/creative movements
• Create fluid movement sequences with intentional changes in direction and speed
• Demonstrate creative expression in the creative process of dance

Skill Descriptor: Refine principles of stability and balance, on a variety of surfaces while participating in activities

Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate various ways to maintain balance on and off equipment
• Demonstrate how focus point is necessary to maintain balance
• Maintain balance for 20 seconds on a variety of surfaces and moving objects
• Demonstrate balance skills at the end of a movement sequence
• Demonstrate ready position for variety of activities in multiple environments

Skill Descriptor: Apply combinations of fundamental locomotor skills and fundamental manipulative skills in more complex activities and in various environments.

Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Throw with appropriate force and accuracy
• Perform the right type of throw to hit a stationary/moving target
• Kick a stationary/moving ball with accuracy to a target
• Receive and control an object/ball that is travelling at different speeds with and without an implement
• Practise varying passes to a partner
• Practise a shot/pass using an implement to hit a target
• Vary the direction of a shot/pass to accurately hit an object/ball towards a target using an implement
• Demonstrate sport or activity specific skills through cooperative modified games

Skill Descriptor: Apply strategies and tactics in a variety of games, activities, and environments.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Identify strategies and concepts related to offensive and defensive positions in specific sport/activities
• Choose offensive strategies to approach a goal/target
• Choose strategies to defend a goal/target
• Explain concepts related to offensive and defensive positions/strategies
• Demonstrate verbal/non-verbal communication in game play
• Attempt to demonstrate offensive and defensive positions/strategies in game play
• Attempt timely transitions from offence/defence and vice-versa

Skill Descriptor: Apply social-emotional skills used in learning and performing physical activities, alone and with others.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, ICE, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain physical activity choices that are enjoyable
• Select appropriate emotional reactions during physical activities
• Respond appropriately to the emotional reactions of others during physical activities or games
• Plan strategies with others to accomplish a common goal
• Participate cooperatively by showing respect for diversity of ability, culture, and interests
• Explain how working collaboratively in physical activity benefits everyone
• Discuss how physical activity can benefit self-confidence
• Model respectful, ethical, and safe behaviours in a variety of physical activities in multiple environments

Skill Descriptor: Apply physical fitness concepts to construct personal wellness goals.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain components of physical literacy
• Identify components of skill and health-related fitness
• Discuss the importance of a proper warm-up and cool-down
• Demonstrate a proper warm-up and cool-down
• Discuss the difference in exercise intensity
• Demonstrate the difference in exercise intensity
• Differentiate between aerobic and anaerobic
• Set personal fitness goals for improvement and monitor progress

Skill Descriptor: Combine movement concepts with a variety of activities alone and with others.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Practise and refine dance steps in time with music
• Demonstrate various balance, weight transfer, travelling, and smooth flowing sequences with intentional changes in direction and speed
• Demonstrate fluid movement sequences with increasing complexity with or without equipment
• Create and present fluid rhythmic/creative movement sequences with variations of body and space awareness individually and/or with a partner
• Follow specific dance steps from a variety of choreographed dances individually or with a partner

Skill Descriptor: Refine principles of stability and balance, on a variety of surfaces while participating in activities.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate and explain how a focus point is necessary to maintain balance
• Maintain balance for 30 seconds on a variety of surfaces and moving objects
• Explain the principles of balance used to maintain balance for 30 seconds
• Provide cues to a partner on how to maintain balance
• Demonstrate balance skills with a partner
• Demonstrate ready position for variety of activities in multiple environments

Skill Descriptor: Extend combinations of fundamental locomotor skills and fundamental manipulative skills in more complex activities and in various environments.

Global Competencies: CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Choose and perform the right type of throw to send an object with accuracy and varying speeds to a stationary/moving target
• Strike an object/ball that is travelling towards own body at various speeds
• Kick a ball with accuracy using varying speeds to a target/partner
• Receive and control an object/ball that is travelling at different speeds and distances with and without an implement
• Vary the direction and speed of a shot/pass to accurately hit an object/ball towards a target using an implement
• Perform the right type of shot/pass using an implement to send an object/ball to a stationary/moving target with accuracy and varying speeds
• Demonstrate sport or activity specific skills through lead-up games that reinforce specific game skills

Skill Descriptor: Apply strategies and tactics in a variety of games, activities, and environments.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Practise strategies and concepts related to offensive and defensive positions in specific sport/activities
• Practise basic individual positions and strategies in specific sport/activities
• Practise how to create space and move to a space
• Practise defending a person and a space
• Work with others to demonstrate offence/defence
• Practise offensive and defensive positions/strategies during game play
• Practise timely transitions from offence/defence and vice-versa

Skill Descriptor: Analyze social-emotional skills used in learning and performing physical activities, alone and with others.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM, SGC

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss factors that increase personal participation and activity choices
• Explain barriers to being physically active
• Discuss how to improve own individual skills
• Develop and implement strategies to increase participation
• Select appropriate emotional reactions during physical activities
• Describe how cooperation helps support enjoyment in physical activity
• Execute strategies with others to accomplish a common goal
• Participate cooperatively by showing respect for diversity of ability, culture, and interests
• Discuss why fair play and etiquette need to be respected during practice/play
• Discuss the role of practice, effort, and perseverance in the development of confidence in own self and others
• Describe how an alternative environment may require a particular safety precaution
• Model respectful, ethical, and safe behaviours in a variety of physical activities in multiple environments

Skill Descriptor: Apply personal wellness SMART goals that use fitness concepts.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss components of physical literacy
• Distinguish the difference between skill and health-related fitness
• Define personal fitness
• Explain methods used to improve or maintain personal fitness
• Discuss the elements of a personal fitness SMART goal
• Create a personal fitness SMART goal
• Discuss challenges and solutions to personal fitness SMART goal
• Demonstrate a proper warm-up and cool-down

Skill Descriptor: Evaluate movement concepts with a variety of activities, alone and with others.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate various dance steps and sequences with a group
• Demonstrate complex fluid movement sequences with or without equipment with a group
• Create fluid movement sequences with increasing complexity with a group
• Follow specific dance steps from a variety of choreographed dances with a group

Skill Descriptor: Evaluate principles of stability and balance, on a variety of surfaces while participating in activities.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Discuss how balance contributes to lifelong health and well-being
• Combine various balance skills while performing various activities and in various environments
• Provide cues to a group on how to maintain balance
• Demonstrate balance skills in small groups
• Demonstrate ready position for variety of activities in multiple environments

Skill Descriptor: Integrate combinations of fundamental locomotor skills and fundamental manipulative skills in complex activities and various environments.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate activity-specific motor skills in a variety of activities and environments
• Demonstrate ways to receive, retain, and send an object/ball with increasing accuracy individually and with others in game situation
• Demonstrate ways to receive, retain and send an object/ball with increasing accuracy using an implement in game situation
• Demonstrate elements of skill improvement through self-correction
• Demonstrate correct body positioning for safety and efficiency

Skill Descriptor: Apply strategies and tactics in a variety of games, activities, and environments.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Demonstrate basic individual positions and strategies in specific sport/activities
• Demonstrate how to create space and move to a space
• Demonstrate defending a person and a space
• Work effectively with others to demonstrate offence/defence
• Demonstrate offensive and defensive positions/strategies during game play
• Demonstrate timely transitions from offence/defence and vice-versa

Skill Descriptor: Analyze social-emotional skills used in learning and performing physical activities, alone and with others.

Global Competencies: CL, CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Explain why enjoyment in physical activity is important to sustain well-being
• Describe how to overcome challenges to being physically active
• Discuss how to improve individual/team skills
• Select appropriate emotional reactions during physical activities
• Reflect on individual skill improvement
• Explain how working collaboratively in physical activity benefits everyone
• Participate cooperatively by showing respect for diversity of ability, culture, and interests
• Reflect upon why fair play and etiquette need to be respected during play/practice
• Reflect upon the role of practice, effort, and perseverance in the development of confidence in self and others
• Explain how an alternative environment may require a particular safety precaution
• Model respectful, ethical, and safe behaviours in a variety of physical activities in multiple environments

Skill Descriptor: Apply personal wellness SMART goals that use fitness concepts and principles.

Global Competencies: CM, CTPS, SASM

Achievement Indicators:

• Apply components of physical literacy
• Research and describe one component of skill and health-related fitness
• Describe sport/physical activity that will improve specific skill and health-related fitness components
• Discuss the FITT principle (FITT: Frequency, Intensity, Time, and Type)
• Create and track progress on personal fitness/sport SMART goals
• Discuss personal fitness/sport SMART goal results
• Demonstrate a proper warm-up and cool-down