Grade 8
Efficiency of Human Movement and Performance
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Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living
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Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness
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Use the concepts of health-related and skill-related fitness to connect the benefits each offers to the development of total fitness.
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Wellness
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Describe the cause/effect of nutrition and exercise in maintaining a healthy weight (calories in = calories out).
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Identify a variety of specific activities designed to reduce and manage stress (e.g., aerobics, Pilates, deep breathing, muscle relaxation).
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Fitness Principles
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Identify exercise principles of overload, progression, and specificity and how they relate to exercise.
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Body Systems
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Explain the effects of a sedentary lifestyle on the circulatory, respiratory, muscular, and skeletal systems.
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Responsible Personal and Social Behavior in the Physical Activity Setting
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Personal/Social Responsibilities
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Demonstrate the ability to solve problems by analyzing causes and potential solutions in a physical activity setting (e.g., checklist of conflict resolution skills).
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Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation
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Prevention
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Investigate the safe and unsafe practices of using fitness equipment (e.g., weight room, fitness balls, step aerobics).
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Treatment
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Apply knowledge of basic first aid for the treatment of injury inside and outside the physical activity setting (e.g., Asthma, CPR, RICE - Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation).
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Physical Activity and Lifetime Wellness
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Sport Skills and Lifetime Activities
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Skill Techniques
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Analyze selected skills and correct errors to improve skill technique.
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Individual, Dual and Team Sports
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Explain sport history.
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Demonstrate an increased level of competence in skill techniques, scoring, and safety practices in a variety of individual, dual and team sports.
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Analyze play of their opponent and apply defensive and offensive techniques.
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Outdoor Pursuits/Recreational Activities
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Demonstrate an increased level of competence in a variety of outdoor pursuits and/or recreational activities.
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Specialized Activities
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Demonstrate an intermediate level of competence in a variety of physical activities (e.g., gymnastics, aquatics).
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Apply skill techniques, scoring and safety practices in a modified activity setting.
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Careers
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Describe the requirements for careers that can be pursued in outdoor pursuits and recreational activities.
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Rhythms and Dance
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Creative/Interpretive
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Analyze the creative and aesthetic aspects of a dance pattern (e.g., direction, time, flow, level, energy).
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Forms of Dance
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Analyze differences and similarities in dances from various cultures.
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Frequently asked questions
- What grade levels do these standards cover?
- Grade 8
- When were these standards adopted?
- 2007
- Where can I read the official document?
- Physical Education Grade Level Expectations
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