Grade 8 PE Louisiana Standards

Demonstrates an understanding and respect for differences among people in physical activity settings.

Demonstrates responsible personal and social behavior in physical activity settings.

Achieves and maintains a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.

Exhibits a physically active lifestyle.

Applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills.

Demonstrates competency in many movement forms and proficiency in a few movement forms.

Participates in modified versions of team and individual sports.

Use basic offensive and defensive strategies in a modified version of a team sport and an individual sport.

Demonstrates the ability to create rhythmic movement pattern.

Design and teach a dance sequence to music.

Demonstrate a basic understanding of square dance steps, positions, and patterns as to create and perform a dance to music.

Demonstrates strategies for net and invasion games.

Perform hand and foot dribbles while preventing an opponent from stealing the ball.

Demonstrate appropriate relationships of the body to an opponent in dynamic game situations such as staying between opponent and goal and moving between opponent and the ball.

Analyzes and applies basic concepts to improve movement, dance, fitness, game and sports skills being practiced.

Design and perform sequences of dance steps/movements into practiced sequences with intentional changes in speed, direction, and flow.

Combine skills competently to participate in modified versions of team and individual sports.

Demonstrates how practicing movement skills improves performance.

Exhibit an improved level of manipulative skills while stationary and moving with objects of different shapes, sizes, textures and weights.

Demonstrate mastery in striking skills while stationary and moving with objects of different shape, size, texture and weight.

Demonstrate mastery in skills to strike both stationary and moving objects with different body parts.

Demonstrate mastery in the following patterns of movement related to striking objects with body parts (kicking, punting, dribbling, volleying, serving, etc.).

Analyzes and applies advanced movement and game strategies.

Describe and demonstrate the ability to use offensive and defensive strategies in court, goal and field games related to striking with the body.

Understand and apply strategies of attacking and defending space in manipulative activities.

Recognizes and applies principles necessary for safe and skilled physical performance.

Make activity choices based on safety for self and others.

Use equipment safely and properly.

Select and use proper attire that promotes participation and prevents injury.

Identifies opportunities in the school and community for regular participation in physical activity.

Identify, and log, participation in physical activities both during and outside of school for the purpose of improving skills and health.

Explores a variety of new physical activities for personal interest in and out of physical education class.

Identify, and log, participation in games, sports, dance, and/or outdoor pursuits, in and outside of school, based on individual interests and/or capabilities.

Establishes and pursues personal physical activity goals through regular physical activity.

Participate in an individualized physical activity program designed with the help of the teacher.

Establish and evaluate short and long-term individual health related fitness goals and make appropriate changes for improvement.

Describes the elements of a healthy lifestyle.

Identify and describe the five components of health-related fitness (cardiovascular fitness, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition).

Identify and describe the skill-related components of fitness (agility, speed, power, balance, reaction time, coordination).

Identify and describe the relationships among physical activity frequency, intensity and time.

Select and use appropriate technology tools to evaluate, monitor, and improve physical development.

Participates in and sustains moderate to vigorous physical activity in a variety of settings.

Explore and participate in a variety of health-related fitness activities in both school and non-school settings.

Demonstrate how to sustain an aerobic activity maintaining target heart rate to achieve cardiovascular benefits.

Participate in moderate to vigorous physical activity within target heart range for a sustained period of time (20-30 minutes), three or more days per week. Log participation.

Develops individual goals for each of the health-related fitness components.

Use activity log to set realistic goals for lifetime wellness.

Set realistic goals for improving his/her health-related fitness.

Develop personal fitness goals independently.

Achieve and maintain appropriate individual levels of the health-related components of fitness and uses assessment results as a guide to make changes in their individual fitness program.

Participates in self-assessment for health-related fitness and meets the standards for that particular test for their appropriate age group.

Meet four of six of the health-related fitness standards as defined by Fitnessgram or an equivalent assessment program.

Analyzes and applies basic principles of training to improve health related fitness.

Apply the following principles of training: specificity (use of a specific exercise to develop skill in a particular activity; progression (increasing the level of intensity); and overload (increasing the weights used in an exercise in order to build muscle more quickly, rather than increasing the speed of the exercise.

Apply basic principles of training to improving physical fitness.

Participate in and/or plan an individualized fitness program.

Participates in cooperative activities in both leadership and follower roles.

Positively contribute to team building activities.

Communicate effectively with group members or teammates.

Effectively direct others when appropriate.

Utilizes time effectively to complete assigned tasks.

Sustain effort during the entire class period.

Manage time and complete tasks asked of her/him.

Participate in tasks from initiation to completion.

Participates in establishing and following rules, procedures and etiquette that are safe and effective for specific activity situations.

Assume responsibility for her/his actions.

Let others complete tasks in class without interrupting.

Solve problems in physical activities by analyzing causes and providing potential solutions.

Analyzes, describes and participates in simple forms of dances and games of various cultures from around the world.

Analyze and perform in at least one sport, dance, and physical activity popular in a non-North American country.

Recognizes commonalties and differences in people of different genders, cultures, ethnicity, abilities and skill levels, and seeks to learn more about both.

Demonstrate awareness and identify exclusionary practices across different genders, cultures, ethnicities, abilities, and skill levels.

Create an informative project that highlights the historical changes of the involvement of diverse genders, cultures, ethnicities, abilities, and skill levels in dance, sport, and/or physical activities.

Recognizes the role of sports, games and dance in getting to know and understand others of like and different backgrounds.

Through verbal and nonverbal behavior, demonstrate cooperation with peers of different gender, race, and ability in a physical activity setting.

Participates in challenging activities and in activities requiring the utilization of newly acquired skills.

Participate in, and log, activities that are personally challenging outside of physical education class.

Identifies the social, emotional and physical benefits of participation in physical activities.

Brainstorm and record how physical activity can provide enjoyment, opportunities for self-expression and communication.

Use peer interaction to positively enhance personal physical activity and safety such as encouraging friends and joining teams.

Demonstrates enjoyment from participation in physical activities.

Recognize and describe the affective, aesthetic and creative aspects of performance.

Demonstrate enjoyment while participating in a self selected activity.

Understands that physical activity provides the opportunity for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.