Grade 7 Overall Expectations:
Movement Skills and Concepts
Perform smooth transfers of weight and rotations, in relation to others and equipment in a variety of situations involving static and dynamic balance;
- Yoga for Teens (YouTube)
- Balance Exercises (YouTube)
Perform a wide variety of locomotor movements, with and without equipment, while responding to a variety of external stimuli;
- Strength Training for Teens (YouTube)
- Obstacle Course Ideas for Teenagers (Website)
Send, receive, and retain a variety of objects, while taking into account their position and motion in relation to others, equipment, and boundaries, while applying basic principles of movement;
- Kids’ Book of Basketball: Skills, Strategies, Equipment, and the Rules of the Game (Book)
- ‘Catch the Apples’ Game | Throwing and Catching (YouTube)
Demonstrate an understanding of the phases of movement and apply this understanding to the refinement of movement skills as they participate in a variety of physical activities.
- Kids Workout | Beginners (YouTube)
- Three Easy Dance Moves | Beginner (YouTube)
Movement Strategies
Demonstrate an understanding of the components of a range of physical activities and apply this understanding as they participate in a variety of physical activities in indoor and outdoor environments;
- World Eskimo-Indian Olympics (YouTube)
- Youth Resistance Bands Exercises (YouTube)
- Just Dance Workout (YouTube)
- Mind-Body Connection through Yoga (YouTube)
- Six Best Dribbling Drills For Kids | Basketball Drills for Beginners (YouTube)
- Three Simple Baseball Fielding Drills for Youth Players (YouTube)
- Baseball Throwing Progression Drills (YouTube)
- Soccer Training at Home (YouTube)
- Soccer Drills for Kids (YouTube)
- Cone Drills for Speed and Agility (YouTube)
- Ten Awesome Football Catching Drills for All Levels (YouTube)
- Six Ways to Practice Volleyball at Home (YouTube)
- Ten Solo Volleyball Drills to Try at Home (YouTube)
- Kids/Youth Triathlon (Website)
Describe and compare different categories of physical activities and describe strategies that they found effective while participating in a variety of physical activities in different categories;
Apply a variety of tactical solutions to increase their chances of success as they participate in physical activities.