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Physical Education Curriculum


Physical Education builds healthy bodies and establishes healthy lifestyles by encouraging physical activity in daily lives. The curriculum includes learner outcomes in the following areas:

Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living

  • muscle endurance
  • muscle strength
  • flexibility
  • cardio-respiratory endurance
  • body composition


Responsible Personal and Social Behavior
in Physical Activity
Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation

  • body and spatial awareness


Fundamental Movement Skills and Games
  • locomotor/non-locomotor movement
  • low organized games/activities with and without manipulatives
  • lead-up/team sports games/activities
  • lead-up/dual and individual games/activities


Rhythms and Dance

  • folk dance
  • scatter square dance and line dance
  • rhythms and dance - lumni sticks, jump bands
  • social dance/dancing through the decades
  • creative dance


Outdoor Educational Activities


The K-5 Physical Education Curriculum is aligned to the Missouri Show Me Standards the Missouri Grade Level Expectations and the National Physical Education content standards.


Specific Grade Level Expectations for each physical education strand can be viewed on the Missouri Department of Education web site.

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