Grade 3 PE SCOS Standards

Personal/Social Responsibility

Health-Related Fitness

Movement Concepts

Motor Skills

Demonstrate the knowledge and skills needed to achieve a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness.

Demonstrate understanding of concepts that apply to the learning and performance of movement.

Demonstrate motor skills and movement patterns needed to perform a variety of physical activities.

Demonstrate responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others.

Identify four or more of the five health-related fitness components (cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition) and their associated exercises.

Demonstrate understanding of physical activity as a way to become healthier.

Develop personal goals to improve one or more of the health-related fitness components.

Demonstrate combinations of the movement concepts of direction, levels, force, and time with skills as directed by the teacher.

Demonstrate understanding of the critical elements of manipulative skills through successful performance.

Use evaluative tools to demonstrate understanding of successful skill performance.

Demonstrate combinations of locomotor skills (walk, run, jump, hop, skip, gallop, leap, slide) with maturing form and smooth transitions.

Demonstrate maturing form of a variety of manipulative skills (throwing, catching, dribbling, passing, volleying, striking, and kicking) using different pathways, levels, or directions.

Demonstrate combinations of locomotor and manipulative skills with emerging form.

Demonstrate rhythmic sequences with smooth transitions.

Demonstrate personal and social responsibility in a variety of class environments.

Demonstrate understanding of the positive social interactions that come when engaged with others in physical activity.

Demonstrate independent and safe practices when engaging in various physical activities.