Grade 8 PE Vermont Standards

Demonstrating cooperation by participating with others within the structure and intent of an activity or task.

Demonstrating the ability to assuming leader/follower roles when appropriate.

Demonstrating a willingness to work with individuals with varying cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

Demonstrating appreciation for appropriate feedback.

Demonstrating responsibility for officiating small group games.

Demonstrating responsibility for practicing appropriate sports conduct (e.g., accepting the referee's decisions without arguing).

Demonstrating responsibility for playing by the rules without taking advantage of peers.

Social Interaction

Demonstrating supportive and positive behavior (e.g., project adventure full value contract).

Demonstrating a positive attitude toward personal skill development.

Establishing personal goals to achieve a higher level of performance in new or challenging activities.

Identifying ways in which attitude, effort and energy affect personal performance.

Affective Qualities

Demonstrating that physical activity is an important component of personal wellness by participating in leisure/lifetime sport or dance activities in and outside of school.

Identifying and applying the knowledge acquired to link nutrition, exercises, and fitness, choose activities to improve and maintain fitness goals.

Understanding and applying basic principles of training to improving physical fitness (FITT - frequency, intensity, time, and type).

Monitoring their heart rate, breathing rate, perceived exertion, and recovery rate during and following physical activity.

Assessing personal performance based on a nationally recognized fitness assessment.

Physical Fitness

Demonstrating the elementary strokes to the butterfly, open turns, and the feet-first surface dive.

Demonstrating the Level V Skill requirements of the American Red Cross Swimming Standards.

Participating in leisure/lifetime sport and dance activities in and outside of school.

Adjusting skills in more complex situations (e.g., hitting to various parts of the tennis court according to where the opponent is placed).

Demonstrating mature form in a variety of basic skills (teacher and/or student selected).

Combining fundamental motor skills and/or the beginning skills of dance, gymnastics, and sport in more complex situations (e.g., dribbling against a defender).

Combining a more complex series of motor skills and movement concepts: speed, force, levels, directions, pathways (e.g., a variety of partner moves in a dance routine).

Adjusting movements to stay on beat while moving with a partner or group.

Using dance steps and patterns while keeping time to the music when performing a variety of dance styles (e.g., world, line, social, jazz).

Performing a more complex movement sequence (e.g., low and/or high rope elements).

Recognizing the similarities in the use of space in more advanced activities (e.g., tactics, dance, and gymnastics).

Applying space concepts appropriately in a variety of activities (e.g., drawing an opponent with you).

Recognizing the similarities between like skills in different activities (e.g., catching in softball/baseball and catching in lacrosse).

Identifying the major skill components of more complex sports, gymnastics, , dance, and/or other related activities.

Demonstrating an understanding of the relationship of body parts in the performance of more complex skills.

Using more advanced terminology to describe body movements.

Recognizing and developing strategies to accommodate personal strengths and weakness.

Giving constructive feedback to a partner/group in order to achieve success.

Solving movement challenges that involve more complex problems and/or increased group size.

Knowledge/Motor Skills

Students will apply problem-solving skills in movement-related activities by…

Students promote individual success and self-confidence by…

Students show safe behavior for self and others by…

Students show appropriate social interactions by…

Students will show an understanding of body awareness concepts by…

Students show an understanding of space concepts by…

FLOW Students show an understanding of movement concepts, and applying movement concepts to psycho-motor skills by…

TIME Students show an understanding of movement concepts, and apply them to psycho-motor skills by…

FORCE / ENERGY Students show an understanding of quality of movement concepts and apply them to psycho-motor skills by…

BALANCE Students show an understanding of quality of movement concepts and apply them to psycho-motor skills by…

Students will demonstrate competency in a variety of skills used in dance, gymnastics, sports, and other physical activities by…

Students will show competency in aquatic activities and water survival skills when facilities allow by…

Students show knowledge of four health-related fitness components (cardio-respiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, and body composition) and identifies a variety of activities to develop each component by…

Students show awareness of personal responsibility for individual wellness by….