PE & Health 7

A SMART health goal with a weekly log, then catching while moving, under time pressure and at different angles, throwing for accuracy, distance and power, and underhand and overhand serves in small modified games.

• 1 · Welcome to PE & Health 7: A Year of Skill-Building and Health Know-How
• 2 · How Your Grade 7 Skills Build on Last Year
• 3 · Setting a SMART Health & Fitness Goal for the Year
• 4 · Tracking Your Progress: Building a Weekly Log
• 5 · Sharing Your Goal and Building a Check-In Habit
• 6 · Catching While Moving: Reading the Throw on the Run
• 7 · Catching Under Time Pressure: Quick-Reaction Target Games
• 8 · Catching at Different Heights and Angles on the Move
• 9 · Modified Target Games: Catch and Score
• 10 · Catching Skills Check-In
• 11 · Throwing for Accuracy: Hitting a Small Target
• 12 · Accuracy Under Game Conditions
• 13 · Throwing for Distance: Generating Range
• 14 · Throwing for Power: Fast, Hard, Controlled
• 15 · Accuracy vs. Distance vs. Power: Choosing the Right Throw
• 16 · The Underhand Serve: Setting Up the Swing
• 17 · Underhand Serve Practice: Serving to a Target Zone
• 18 · The Overhand Serve: A Bigger, Faster Swing
• 19 · Overhand Serve in a Modified Small-Sided Game
• 20 · Serve Skills Check-In

Comparing habits that prevent illness and injury (sleep, nutrition, warm-up, hydration, gear), managing an ongoing health condition and talking about it, finding and judging health information, and a block review.

• 21 · Which Prevents Illness Better? Comparing Everyday Habits
• 22 · Sleep, Nutrition, and Your Immune System
• 23 · Injury-Prevention Habits: Warm-Up, Hydration, and Gear
• 24 · Ranking Prevention Behaviors: A Class Debate
• 25 · Taking Charge: Managing a Health Condition Day to Day
• 26 · Talking About Your Condition: Practicing What to Say
• 27 · Building Your Weekly Management Routine
• 28 · What Is Health Literacy, and Why Does It Matter?
• 29 · Reading Health Information Like a Detective
• 30 · Block Review: Skills and Health Habits from the Past 30 Days

Underhand and overhand serves, forehand and backhand strokes and volleys against a wall and over a line, using household short-handled and long-handled implements, serve placement, ready position and rally challenges.

• 31 · The Underhand Serve with a Short-Handled Implement
• 32 · The Underhand Serve with a Long-Handled Implement
• 33 · The Overhand Serve with a Short-Handled Implement
• 34 · The Overhand Serve with a Long-Handled Implement
• 35 · Serve Placement: Aiming Your Serve at a Target
• 36 · The Forehand Stroke with a Short-Handled Implement
• 37 · The Backhand Stroke with a Short-Handled Implement
• 38 · The Forehand Stroke with a Long-Handled Implement
• 39 · The Backhand Stroke with a Long-Handled Implement
• 40 · Ready Position and Switching Between Forehand and Backhand
• 41 · Stroke Accuracy Challenge and Form Check
• 42 · Volleying Against a Wall with a Short-Handled Implement
• 43 · Volleying Over a Line with a Short-Handled Implement
• 44 · Volleying Against a Wall with a Long-Handled Implement
• 45 · Volleying Over a Line with a Long-Handled Implement
• 46 · Rally Challenge: No Bounce, Direct Return

Health-related versus skill-related fitness, categorizing real activities, choosing a fitness component, measuring it and setting a goal, then the FITT principle, progression and overload, specificity and designing a sample workout plan.

• 47 · What Makes Fitness "Health-Related"?
• 48 · What Makes Fitness "Skill-Related"?
• 49 · Health-Related or Skill-Related? Analyzing Real Activities
• 50 · Categorizing Fitness Components in Sports and Activities
• 51 · Choosing Your Health-Related Fitness Focus
• 52 · Self-Assessment: Measuring Your Chosen Fitness Component
• 53 · Recording Your Results and Setting a Fitness Goal
• 54 · Mapping Your First Steps Toward Your Fitness Goal
• 55 · The FITT Principle: Frequency and Intensity
• 56 · The FITT Principle: Time and Type
• 57 · Progression and Overload: Making Workouts Work Harder
• 58 · The Principle of Specificity
• 59 · Designing a Sample Workout Plan Using FITT
• 60 · Unit Review: Implement Skills and Fitness Principles

A factual science unit on why living things reproduce, conception, embryo development, pregnancy, birth, an overview of the reproductive system, DNA, genes, dominant and recessive traits, and talking with a trusted adult. Parents can turn this unit off.

• 61 · Why Living Things Reproduce
• 62 · Conception: How Human Reproduction Begins
• 63 · From One Cell to an Embryo
• 64 · Pregnancy: A 9-Month Journey
• 65 · Checkpoint: Reproduction and Pregnancy So Far
• 66 · How Babies Are Born
• 67 · The Reproductive System: An Overview
• 68 · Genetics 101: What Are Traits?
• 69 · Dominant and Recessive: How Traits Get Passed Down
• 70 · Traits I Share With My Family
• 71 · Genetics Checkpoint
• 72 · Questions Are Normal: Talking to a Trusted Adult

Passing to and receiving from a moving target in keep-away games, a review of the skill-related fitness components, agility and reaction-time tests, aerobic fitness, the RPE effort scale, and dynamic and static stretching.

• 73 · Passing on the Move: Why It's a Different Skill
• 74 · Passing to a Moving Target
• 75 · Small-Sided Game: Keep-Away on the Move
• 76 · Receiving in Stride
• 77 · Small-Sided Game: Monkey in the Middle on the Move
• 78 · Skill-Related Fitness: A Quick Review
• 79 · Matching Fitness Components to an Activity
• 80 · Testing Your Agility and Reaction Time
• 81 · My Skill-Related Fitness Activity Plan
• 82 · Skill-Related Fitness Check-In
• 83 · Aerobic Fitness: Fueling Activity With Oxygen
• 84 · The RPE Scale: Rating How Hard You're Working
• 85 · Rate Your Effort: An RPE Self-Check Workout
• 86 · Aerobic Fitness and RPE: Putting It Together
• 87 · Dynamic Stretching: Warming Up to Move
• 88 · Static Stretching: Cooling Down and Building Flexibility
• 89 · Building a Warm-Up and Cool-Down Routine
• 90 · Unit Review: Movement, Fitness, and Recovery

Giving and using feedback, traditional games, dance, martial arts and festivals from other cultures, why rules and etiquette matter, home equipment safety, then factual lessons on marijuana, how laws differ, refusal skills, and safe use of prescription medicine.

• 91 · What Makes Feedback Helpful vs. Hurtful
• 92 · Receiving Feedback Without Getting Defensive
• 93 · The Feedback Sandwich: Praise, Suggestion, Praise
• 94 · Timing Feedback: During an Attempt or After
• 95 · Turning Feedback Into a Practice Plan
• 96 · Traditional Games From Around the World
• 97 · Dance as Physical Activity and Cultural Expression
• 98 · Martial Arts Traditions and Their Origins
• 99 · Sport and Community: Festivals Built Around Physical Activity
• 100 · Presenting What You Learned About a Culture's Physical Traditions
• 101 · Why Every Game Needs Rules
• 102 · What Happens When Rules Are Enforced Inconsistently
• 103 · Written Rules vs. Unwritten Rules (Etiquette)
• 104 · Being a Fair Rule-Follower Even When No One Is Watching
• 105 · Checking Equipment Before You Use It
• 106 · Proper Handling and Storage of Exercise Equipment
• 107 · Respecting Equipment Limits: Not Overreaching
• 108 · Setting Up a Safe Space to Exercise At Home
• 109 · What Is Marijuana? Just the Facts
• 110 · How Substances Affect a Brain That's Still Under Construction
• 111 · Why Laws About Marijuana Are Different in Different Places
• 112 · Refusal Skills Revisited: Saying No With Confidence
• 113 · Where Health Facts Come From — and Why the Source Matters
• 114 · Talking to a Trusted Adult About Confusing Messages
• 115 · How Prescription Medicine Is Supposed to Work
• 116 · What Is Medicine Misuse? Same Medicine, Different Person
• 117 · Different Amount, Different Reason: Two More Ways Medicine Becomes Unsafe
• 118 · Why Something That Helps Can Also Harm
• 119 · Building Your Own Family Medicine Safety Plan
• 120 · Block Review: Feedback, Culture, Rules, Equipment, and Safety

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, the Human Knot and Minefield group challenges, honest self-assessment and action plans, a mid-year goal check-in, digital citizenship and footprints, comparison and FOMO, and a healthy digital habits plan.

• 121 · Why Personal Interest Keeps You Moving
• 122 · Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation in Action
• 123 · Finding Activities That Fit Who You Are
• 124 · Two Students, One Semester: A Motivation Case Study
• 125 · The Human Knot: A Group Challenge
• 126 · Human Knot Reflection
• 127 · The Minefield: A Trust and Communication Challenge
• 128 · Comparing Two Group Challenges
• 129 · What Makes a Group Challenge Actually Work
• 130 · Taking an Honest Look at Your Own Ability
• 131 · From Assessment to Goal
• 132 · Building Your Action Plan
• 133 · Why Accurate Self-Assessment Matters for Goals
• 134 · Mid-Year Check-In: Revisiting Your Health Goal
• 135 · Mid-Year Check-In: Tracking Your Progress
• 136 · Mid-Year Check-In: What's Getting in the Way?
• 137 · Mid-Year Check-In: What's Helping You?
• 138 · Mid-Year Check-In: Refining and Recommitting
• 139 · What Does It Mean to Be a Good Digital Citizen?
• 140 · Why Online Actions Have Real Consequences
• 141 · Respect Online: Working Through Scenarios
• 142 · Understanding Your Digital Footprint
• 143 · Putting Digital Citizenship Together
• 144 · Comparison and FOMO
• 145 · The Highlight Reel Effect: Online vs. Real Life
• 146 · Building in Breaks: Digital Wellness
• 147 · Noticing How Social Media Affects Your Mood
• 148 · My Healthy Digital Habits Plan
• 149 · Digital Wellness Scenarios: What Would You Do?
• 150 · Unit Review: Motivation, Goals, and Digital Life

Showcase days for throwing, serving, strokes, moving passes and fitness, then a decision-making process for peer pressure (a dare, cheating, excluding someone, a gathering) and health advocacy: audiences, approaches and drafting a message.

• 151 · Skills Showcase: Throwing and Catching for Accuracy
• 152 · Skills Showcase: Serving Underhand, Overhand, and With an Implement
• 153 · Skills Showcase: Forehand, Backhand, and Volleying
• 154 · Skills Showcase: Sending and Receiving on the Move
• 155 · Skills Showcase: Fitness Self-Assessment, FITT, and RPE
• 156 · Skills Showcase: Feedback, Rules, Safety, and Personal Goals
• 157 · Peer Pressure and a Real Decision-Making Process
• 158 · Scenario Walkthrough: The Dare
• 159 · Scenario Walkthrough: Pressure to Cheat
• 160 · Scenario Walkthrough: Pressure to Exclude Someone
• 161 · Scenario Walkthrough: Pressure at a Gathering
• 162 · Evaluating How Different Choices Turn Out
• 163 · What Is Health Advocacy? Individual vs. Collaborative
• 164 · Choosing the Right Advocacy Approach
• 165 · Adapting Your Advocacy Message for Different Audiences
• 166 · Drafting Your Advocacy Message
• 167 · Advocacy Wrap-Up: Skills and Strategies

Review days on illness and injury prevention, fitness principles, a weekly activity plan, substance awareness, digital citizenship and social media, then reflecting on the year's goal, setting a new one and a finale. Mostly review.

• 168 · Cumulative Review: Preventing Illness
• 169 · Cumulative Review: Injury Prevention and Safety
• 170 · Cumulative Review: Fitness Principles
• 171 · Cumulative Review: Building a Weekly Activity Plan
• 172 · Cumulative Review: Substance Awareness
• 173 · Cumulative Review: Digital Citizenship
• 174 · Cumulative Review: Social Media and Mental Wellness
• 175 · Looking Back at Your Year-Long Health Goal
• 176 · Goal Reflection: Writing It Down
• 177 · What You Learned About Yourself as a Mover
• 178 · Setting Your Next Goal
• 179 · Grade 7 Health and PE: Your Year in Review
• 180 · Course Finale: Celebrating Your Growth and Looking to Grade 8