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Field 113: Health and Physical Education Subtest 2: Physical Education
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Subarea 4—MOTOR LEARNING AND MOVEMENT CONCEPTS

Objective 009—Understand motor learning and development, movement concepts, biomechanics, and skillful movement.

1. Which of the following activities would be most effective for developing first-grade students' awareness of the movement quality of force?

  1. bouncing or kicking balls of different weights and sizes
  2. jumping into and leaping over hoops placed on the ground
  3. posing with a partner in a two- or three-point balance
  4. spinning around slowly with arms extended in personal space on mats
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Correct Response: A.

2. Preschool and kindergarten students often engage in activities such as making figure-eight and zigzag patterns in the air with scarves and streamers. These activities are particularly beneficial for young students' development primarily because they:

  1. involve crossing the midline of the body, which helps promote the bilateral coordination needed for tasks such as dressing, reading, and writing.
  2. teach students at an early age how to use planning, problem-solving, and decision-making skills in dynamic motor learning contexts.
  3. familiarize students with brain-based movement exercises that recruit only one hemisphere of the brain at a time.
  4. address information-processing deficits or limitations that students may have related to visual and tactile aspects of perceptual awareness.
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Correct Response: A.

3. In a running activity involving starting and stopping, which of the following biomechanical techniques should students use to stop suddenly?

  1. bending forward at the waist when stopping to lower the center of gravity so that it is closer to the base of support
  2. keeping the legs wide apart when stopping to enlarge the base of support from side to side
  3. leaning backward slightly when stopping to shift the center of gravity towards the back of the base of support
  4. moving the arms forward when stopping to move the center of gravity forward over the center of the base of support
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Correct Response: C.
Objective 010—Understand critical elements, task progressions, cues, organizational strategies, basic rules, etiquette, equipment, and safety practices for sports, lifetime activities, outdoor pursuits, and cooperative and group games.

4. When teaching tactical skills used in invasion sports, which of the following approaches would best help students learn to adjust their speed and timing, as well as their movement strategies, in response to changing conditions?

  1. immediately involving students in games using regulation rules but no scorekeeping
  2. having students practice on regulation-size fields or courts using cones as defenders to avoid
  3. gradually adding offensive and defensive players and making practice sessions increasingly game-like
  4. having students work repeatedly on set offensive and defensive plays without opposition until plays are memorized
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Correct Response: C.

5. Which of the following is an essential technique for cradling a ball in lacrosse?

  1. bending the knees while running, dropping the stick to the ground, and scooping up the ball with the stick head
  2. twisting the wrist back and forth while running or standing to keep the ball in the pocket of the stick head
  3. using a wide stance to stabilize a shooting position and squaring the shoulders and hips with the goal
  4. positioning the stick in the path of the ball and moving the stick head backward to absorb the impact of the ball
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Correct Response: B.

6. Which of the following task progressions would be most appropriate for teaching the underhand roll?

  1. Eyes forward, face target
    Three steps forward
    Point and throw
    Release at waist level and step through
  2. Ready position
    Point and look
    Swing arms back, step and throw
    Snap wrist on release and step through
  3. Side to target, make a T
    Weight on back foot
    Step, rotate, and throw
    Swing high on follow-through
  4. Ready position
    Swing arm back to waist level
    Step forward with opposite foot and sweep
    Follow-through to above waist
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Correct Response: D.

7. Which of the following statements accurately explains the primary advantage of using the inside of the foot rather than the toe when kicking a soccer ball?

  1. The ball can be kicked more forcefully using the inside of the foot because larger leg muscles are used to swing the leg for the kick.
  2. The chance of suffering an injury to the foot is lower when the inside of the foot is used to kick the ball.
  3. Ball control is enhanced when kicking with the inside of the foot because a larger and flatter surface is used to contact the ball.
  4. The leg movements used when kicking with the inside of the foot are more easily incorporated into the running stride during games.
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Correct Response: C.

Subarea 5—HEALTH-RELATED FITNESS

Objective 011—Understand anatomical and physiological concepts related to physical activity and health, and principles and components of health-related fitness.

8. Which action is performed by the biceps muscle during an isometric contraction such as holding a heavy object in front of the body?

  1. stabilizing a joint position
  2. facilitating circumduction
  3. initiating passive stretching
  4. allowing rotation
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Correct Response: A.

9. In certain sports events, such as the 800-meter run in track and field, maximal exercise lasts for less than 3 minutes. In these types of short-duration activities, performance is limited by the body's:

  1. level of maximum oxygen consumption (V O subscript 2 max).
  2. ability to remove excess lactic acid from the muscles.
  3. amount of glycogen stored within the muscles.
  4. ability to prevent a rise in body temperature.
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Correct Response: B.

10. A student exercises on an indoor stationary bike for 20 minutes in the target heart rate zone. Which of the following strategies would be most appropriate to use in a cooldown for this activity?

  1. continuing to cycle at a much slower pace for about 5 minutes, followed by light stretching
  2. sitting on the bike quietly until the heart rate returns to its resting rate, followed by a slow-paced, 5-minute walk
  3. performing standing stretches for about 5 minutes, followed by about 5 minutes of static floor stretches
  4. performing various strengthening exercises, such as push-ups and curl-ups, for about 5 minutes
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Correct Response: A.
Objective 012—Understand principles and activities for developing and maintaining healthy levels of cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition.

11. One way in which regular moderate to vigorous physical activity contributes to an individual's cardiorespiratory health is by:

  1. reducing sensitivity to insulin circulating in the body.
  2. stimulating the release of enzymes that help remove low-density lipoproteins (LDL) from blood.
  3. increasing blood flow to the stomach, intestines, liver, and kidneys during exercise.
  4. decreasing the need for skeletal muscles to use fat as an energy source during physical activity.
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Correct Response: B.

12. Use the photograph below to answer the question that follows.

photo of school children stretching

In this photograph, six elementary school-age students stand in two lines of three each in a physical education setting, facing the camera. The students, dressed in T-shirts and shorts, are performing the same static stretch: an overhead-arms side stretch, or standing overhead reach side bend. The students stand with their weight evenly distributed between both feet. Their arms are extended straight overhead, and their heads are between their arms. The students' hands are clasped above their heads; five of the six students' clasped hands are palms-up with intertwined fingers. In this position, the students are bending laterally at the waist, thereby stretching their upper bodies to their right (camera left).

The students in this class are demonstrating an exercise designed to increase flexibility and strength in the triceps, deltoids, latissimus dorsi, and which other muscle group in particular?

  1. external obliques
  2. erector spinae
  3. gastrocnemius
  4. adductor longus
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Correct Response: A.

13. Fitness professionals recommend including resistance training in body composition management primarily because resistance training:

  1. converts fat tissue into muscle tissue.
  2. burns more calories per unit time than aerobic training.
  3. helps prevent loss of lean body mass.
  4. decreases resting energy expenditure.
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Correct Response: C.

Subarea 6—THE PHYSICAL EDUCATION PROGRAM

Objective 013—Understand the role of physical activity in promoting students' development of positive personal and social behaviors and their ability to make healthy lifestyle choices.

14. To best help secondary physical education students understand the cultural and aesthetic purposes of various traditional dances, the teacher should guide students in analyzing the:

  1. style of movement in which a dance in executed.
  2. relationship between a dance and its accompaniment.
  3. context in which a dance is performed.
  4. clothing worn by participants in a dance.
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Correct Response: C.
Objective 014—Understand how to plan and implement developmentally appropriate instruction in the physical education program.

15. Students are practicing the underhand toss at targets from a stationary position. Then students pair up and practice tossing to partners from stationary positions. As accuracy improves, students toss to their partners from greater distances and practice making short underhand tosses to moving partners. This skill development approach is appropriate primarily because:

  1. students remain more focused on skills in dual activities when organizational complexity is low.
  2. motor skills are more readily retained when the pace of learning is relatively slow and steady.
  3. students gain more ownership of skill-based learning when tasks are predictable.
  4. motor skills are most effectively acquired through progressive learning from simple to complex.
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Correct Response: D.

16. Students have dispersed throughout the gym for partner practice of basketball passes. In which of the following ways could the teacher most appropriately and effectively manage and supervise the class during this type of activity?

  1. by moving around the gym and scanning the class frequently while providing brief verbal cues to pairs of students
  2. by remaining in the center of the gym, thus allowing easy access for students with questions
  3. by proceeding systematically from one pair of students to the next, spending equal time with each and providing feedback
  4. by surveying the class initially, then staying near pairs of students who tend to be disruptive
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Correct Response: A.
Objective 015—Understand the use of a variety of assessment strategies and tools to evaluate student learning and progress and to improve physical education instruction.

17. A teacher plans a peer-evaluation activity in which students observe their partners executing badminton serves. The observers evaluate their partner's performance using a checklist of critical elements in the skill and then provide feedback while reviewing the checklist with their partners. This type of peer-evaluation activity is most likely to benefit students by:

  1. prompting them to develop their own cues for proper execution of a badminton serve.
  2. encouraging their development of reflective-thinking and decision-making skills.
  3. eliminating any stress that students experience when asked to demonstrate motor skills in front of the entire class.
  4. promoting their understanding of proper technique for specific motor skills through cooperative learning.
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Correct Response: D.

18. An assessment process would be considered formative, as opposed to summative, when the teacher uses the results of the assessment primarily for:

  1. determining how much students have learned and assigning them final grades accordingly.
  2. evaluating student performance in relation to age-group and grade-level norms.
  3. monitoring the progress of student learning and adjusting instructional approaches accordingly.
  4. determining whether students demonstrate the skill and readiness levels for specialized elective courses.
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Correct Response: C.
Objective 016—Understand the foundations of physical education and legal, ethical, and professional responsibilities of physical education teachers.

19. For a physical education project, seventh- and eighth-grade students design and facilitate a field day at the adjacent elementary school, with help from the teacher and the health education teacher. The students gather equipment and supplies, create task cards and signs, set up individual challenge stations and group game areas, and divide themselves into pairs or teams to oversee each of the activities. This field day project is particularly appropriate for promoting the seventh- and eighth-graders':

  1. higher-order thinking and leadership skills.
  2. ability to adjust to quickly changing group dynamics.
  3. awareness of age-related physical and motor differences.
  4. understanding of the developmental stages of elementary students.
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Correct Response: A.

20. A physically literate person is best described as an individual who:

  1. participates in some kind of physical activity on a daily basis.
  2. understands the biological and physiological bases of the effects of physical activity and inactivity on the human body.
  3. is familiar with the skill requirements and official rules and regulations of a wide variety of sports.
  4. has the ability to move with competence and confidence in a variety of physical activities that provide health-related benefits.
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Correct Response: D.