State Curriculum - Physical Education

 
Grade 8
Standard 1.0 Skillfulness: Students will demonstrate the ability to enhance their performance of a variety of physical skills by developing fundamental movement skills, creating original skill combinations, combining skills effectively in skill themes, and applying skills.
A. Fundamental Movement
1. Evaluate fundamental movement skills in a variety of physical education activities.
a. Assess a peer for fundamental movement skills, skill combinations, and skill themes in a variety of small and large group physical activity settings such as: fitness, adventure and cooperative games, rhythms and dance, tumbling and gymnastics, recreational games, individual and team sports.
B. Creative Movement
1. Evaluate creative skill combinations in a variety of physical activities.
a. Justify a personal opinion for an individual or partner performance sequence that exhibits quality movement based on common themes such as: self expression, rhythmical interpretation, form, or style.
C. Skill Themes
1. Analyze strategies to solve tactical game problems.
a. Investigate and use different concepts/strategies for each tactical game category (net/wall, invasion, striking/fielding, and target) such as: scoring and preventing scoring.
b. Compare and choose movement strategies that add to student success during participation in net/wall, invasion, striking/fielding, and target activities.
 

 

May 27, 2009