Middle School Map: Dance and Aesthetics

Middle School Map: Dance and Aesthetics

Curriculum Map – Middle School

Team Passing Sports / Net/Wall Sports / Personal Fitness and Wellness / Team Challenges and Outdoor Activities / Target Sports / Dance and Aesthetics / Striking and Fielding Sports
Soccer / Volleyball / Combatives / Project Adventure / Golf / Square Dance / Baseball
Football / Badminton / Tae-Bo--7,8 / Orienteering / Frisbee Golf / Line Dance / Kickball
Team Handball / Tchoukball / Step Aerobics--6 / Cross Country / La Crosse- / Gymnastics / Punchball
Field Hockey / Handball / Juggling / Skiing / Baseball / Floor Exercises / Softball
Floor Hockey / The President's / Archery / Wiffleball
La Crosse / Etc. / Challenge
Frisbee / Circuit Training / Etc. / Etc. / Etc. / Etc.
Speedball / Jump Rope for Heart
Low-Organized Games / Hoops for Heart
Scooter Games / Educational Karate
Basketball / Program

Middle School Map: Dance and Aesthetics

Essential Questions

  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?

Content

  1. History of and explanation of Dance
  2. Information on warm-ups in general and for sport specific muscle groups

Skills

  1. General Square Dance and Line Dance steps
  2. Basic gymnastics moves
  3. Specific stretches for specific body areas or for general warm ups.

Assessment

  1. Teacher observation

Middle School Map: Net/Wall Sports

Essential Questions

  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?

Content

  1. Personal/General space
  2. Adapted rules for play
  3. Skills for the sport

Skills

  1. Serving—underhand, overhead
  2. Rotation and/or positioning
  3. Pass, spike, set, hit
  4. Teamwork

Assessment

  1. Teacher observation
  2. Written Test
  3. See Assessment example 3

Middle School Map: Personal Performance Activities

Essential Questions

  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?

Content

  1. The President’s Fitness Challenge
  2. Skills
  3. American Heart Association challenges
  4. Personal challenges

Skills

  1. Pulse taking
  2. Certain steps for both Tae-Bo and basic aerobics
  3. Basic Juggling skills
  4. Basic Karate skills

Assessment

  1. Self-assessment
  2. Teacher observation
  3. Student-created routines
  4. See Assessment examples 1 and 5

Middle School Map: Striking/Fielding Sports

Essential Questions

  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?

Content

  1. Equipment necessary for safe participation in the game
  2. Rules for the game being played
  3. Skills necessary to play successfully
  4. Scorekeeping – with official softball score sheets

Skills

  1. Throwing and catching
  2. Fielding—grounders and outfield catches
  3. Base running
  4. Batting, bunting, kicking, striking with hand
  5. Positioning for fielding

Assessments

  1. Teacher observation
  2. Team Sport Packets
  3. Skills assessments with rubrics
  4. See Assessment example 4

Middle School Map: Target Sports

Essential Question

  1. Can you successfully hit the target?

Content

  1. Correct positioning of body
  2. Correct swing/throw/draw
  3. Correct follow through
  4. Knowledge of rules and scoring

Skills

  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

Assessment

  1. Teacher observation
  2. Written Test

3. Group discussion—peer assessment

Middle School Map: Team Challenges and Outdoor Activities

Essential Questions

  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?

Content

  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

Skills

  1. How to follow instructions
  2. How to read a compass
  3. Arm/leg coordination for the skiing—starting, gliding, herringbone, stopping

Assessment

  1. Teacher observation
  2. Completion of task
  3. See Assessment example 8

Middle School Map: Team Passing Sports

Essential Questions

1. How can you cooperate to teach another student?

  1. How can you utilize team passing sport skills?

Content

  1. Skills
  2. Offensive and Defensive concepts
  3. Safety and Sport guidelines
  4. Appropriate Sportsmanship for both players and spectators
  5. Care of and appreciation for equipment

Skills

  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

Assessment

  1. Teacher observation
  2. Written Test
  3. Team Sport Packets
  4. See Assessment examples 2 and 7
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