Grade 8 PE Mississippi Standards

Create offensive and defensive strategies in physical activities.

Solve conflicts in physical activity by determining potential solutions.

Execute offensive and defensive strategies in individual and team sports.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Participates regularly in physical activity.

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

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

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

Exhibit characteristics of a positive role model.

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