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    Eighth-Grade Physical Education Units
     
     
    Eighth-Grade Physical Education Learning Objectives
     
    Health & Skill Related Fitness
    • Use the concepts of health-related and skill-related fitness to connect the benefits each offers to the development of total fitness.

    Wellness

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

    Fitness Principles

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

    Personal/Social Responsibilities

    • Demonstrate the ability to solve problems by analyzing causes and potential solutions in a physical activity setting.

    Prevention

    • Investigate the safe and unsafe practices of using fitness equipment.

    Body Management (mechanical principles)

    • Apply mechanical principals of force, stability, motion, and direction (e.g., lower the center of gravity)

    Movement Concepts (identify critical movement elements)

    • Identify critical elements to improve performance in selected skills (e.g., throw various objects)

    Developmental Games

    • Apply fundamental and sequential skills in game situations with increased proficiency.

    Skill Techniques

    • Analyze selected skills and correct errors to improve skill technique.

    Individual, Dual and Team Sports

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

    Outdoor Pursuits / Recreational Activities

    • Demonstrate an increased level of competence in a variety of challenge activities and/or recreational activities.

    Rhythmic Activities

    • Demonstrate rhythmic activities that use a variety of equipment to develop various components of fitness (e.g., jump ropes, Dance Dance Revolution, line dance, dumb bells, aerobics).