Compare results from personal participation in movement activity to personal fitness assessment data related to cardiovascular fitness (e.g., time taken to complete endurance walk or run, heart rate achieved during participation) to enhance understanding of personal fitness level.

Determine personal levels of cardiovascular exertion by using methods for taking heart rate (e.g., self-count of pulse: 6-second count x 10, 10-second count x 6, and/or technology: heart rate monitors) to calculate own heart rate before, during, and after participation in movement activity.

Sustain participation in moderate to vigorous movement activities (e.g., walking, snowshoeing, running, skipping, cycling, swimming, dancing, paddling, outdoor obstacle course races) that increase heart rate and respiration rates in a progression towards ten consecutive minutes on a consistent basis.

Sustain participation in lead-up games (e.g., three-on-three soccer, three-on-three soft lacrosse) that increase heart rate and respiration rates in a progression towards ten consecutive minutes on a consistent basis.

Willingly engage in a variety of movement activities at a moderate to vigorous level of effort in a progression towards ten consecutive minutes.

Determine what qualifies as a moderate level of participation and what qualifies as a vigorous level of participation in movement activities.

Express insights (e.g., discussion, journal, audio recording, video recording) regarding the cardiovascular benefits of participation in a variety of net/wall games, invasion/territorial games, low-organizational and inventive games, alternate environment activities, and body management activities.

Demonstrate and apply an understanding of the F.I.T.T. principle (e.g., Cardiovascular endurance: Frequency – at least every 48 hours, Intensity – maintain performance in target heart zone range, Type – aerobically challenging, Time – at least 10 consecutive minutes) to affect the maintenance or improvement of current level of cardiovascular endurance.

Communicate, with clarity, how to set realistic and personally challenging goals related to the improvement of cardiovascular health-related fitness.

Apply, with guidance, data from fitness appraisals and standards for health-related fitness assessments as identified in credible resources (e.g., Fitnessgrams, Activitygrams [Meredith & Welk, 2007]) to analyze own level of cardiovascular fitness.

Propose and explain the positives and negatives of using standardized information related to fitness levels as a means of judging own performance.

Demonstrate, with guidance, the ability to write personal goals and a movement activity plan that incorporate the F.I.T.T. principle.

Communicate, with clarity, options for how to improve the activity plans of self and others.

Implement and monitor an individualized plan for the improvement of personal level of cardiovascular fitness.

Compare personal fitness performance on fitness appraisals to previous personal performance throughout the year and to health-related fitness standards to determine personal level of cardiovascular endurance.

Identify and use methods and sources for data collection to assess and monitor personal level of physical fitness (e.g., written resources, pedometers, stop watches, computer programs).

Identify and use methods for evaluation of success of personal fitness plan and reflect on ways to improve.

Compare own movement activity participation and fitness appraisal results over a period of time (e.g., beginning, middle, and end of year) to check and revise personal goals.

Express insights in response to questions such as "Is your level of fitness anyone else's business?", "Is anyone else's level of fitness your business?", and "Who is responsible for your level of fitness?