Grade 8 PE Missouri Standards

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).

Responsible Personal and Social Behavior in the Physical Activity Setting

Skill Techniques

Injury Prevention, Treatment and Rehabilitation

Wellness

Fitness Principles

Outdoor Pursuits/Recreational Activities

Analyze selected skills and correct errors to improve skill technique.

Efficiency of Human Movement and Performance

Explain sport history.

Personal/Social Responsibilities

Physical Activity and Lifetime Wellness

Treatment

Analyze the creative and aesthetic aspects of a dance pattern (e.g., direction, time, flow, level, energy).

Demonstrate an intermediate level of competence in a variety of physical activities (e.g., gymnastics, aquatics).

Investigate the safe and unsafe practices of using fitness equipment (e.g., weight room, fitness balls, step aerobics).

Identify a variety of specific activities designed to reduce and manage stress (e.g., aerobics, Pilates, deep breathing, muscle relaxation).

Individual, Dual and Team Sports

Sport Skills and Lifetime Activities

Analyze play of their opponent and apply defensive and offensive techniques.

Prevention

Rhythms and Dance

Explain the effects of a sedentary lifestyle on the circulatory, respiratory, muscular, and skeletal systems.

Analyze differences and similarities in dances from various cultures.

Demonstrate an increased level of competence in skill techniques, scoring, and safety practices in a variety of individual, dual and team sports.

Creative/Interpretive

Demonstrate the ability to solve problems by analyzing causes and potential solutions in a physical activity setting (e.g., checklist of conflict resolution skills).

Describe the requirements for careers that can be pursued in outdoor pursuits and recreational activities.

Demonstrate an increased level of competence in a variety of outdoor pursuits and/or recreational activities.

Describe the cause/effect of nutrition and exercise in maintaining a healthy weight (calories in = calories out).

Specialized Activities

Forms of Dance

Identify exercise principles of overload, progression, and specificity and how they relate to exercise.

Personal Fitness and Healthy Active Living

Health-Related and Skill-Related Fitness

Apply skill techniques, scoring and safety practices in a modified activity setting.

Body Systems

Careers

Use the concepts of health-related and skill-related fitness to connect the benefits each offers to the development of total fitness.