Grade 8 PE Mississippi Standards

Engage in physical activities that provide challenge, problem solving, decision-making and risk taking.

Value physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction.

Solve conflicts in physical activity by determining potential solutions.

Exhibit characteristics of a positive role model.

Exhibit responsible personal and social behavior that respect s self and others in physical activity settings.

Implement a personal fitness plan to accomplish a physical fitness goal.

Examine and discuss pre-and post-fitness test scores after participation in fitness-enhancing activities.

Apply each health-related fitness component (i.e., muscular strength, endurance, flexibility, body composition, aerobic fitness) and explain how participation in physical activity impacts personal fitness.

Achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness.

Participate and apply basic muscular strength and endurance principles and safety practices both inside and outside of school.

Set personal physical fitness goals based upon the results of fitness assessments.

Participate in games, sports, dance, and/or other activities in a variety of settings that are based on personal interests.

Participates regularly in physical activity.

Understand how biomechanics (i.e., human movement from a variety of perspectives) affects performance.

Utilize principles of training and conditioning (FITT, Warm-up/Work-Out/Cool Down, specificity, intensity, overload) to improve physical fitness.

Apply appropriate warm-up and cool down techniques while participating in a variety of physical activities.

Create offensive and defensive strategies in physical activities.

Demonstrate understanding of movement principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning, development and performance of physical activities.

Execute offensive and defensive strategies in individual and team sports.

Perform continuous and discrete skills (i.e., discrete skills have a defined beginning and end and continuous skills are ongoing).

Demonstrate increased proficiency in movement skills while participating in team and individual sports.

Demonstrate competency in motor skills and movement patterns/concepts needed to perform a variety of physical activities.