Course Details
Physical Education and Health (Grade 8)
Review key course information and curriculum options.
Course Information
- Subject Area
- Physical, Health, and Safety Education
- State Course Code
- 08038N
- Length
- Two Semesters
- Total Hours
- 180
This course teaches grade-level appropriate health and safety principles that can lead to a lifetime of healthy practices, resulting in more productive, active, and successful lives. Washington State requires that all students, grades 1-8, receive an average of one hundred instructional minutes per week per year in physical education.
Learning Goals
- The student develops mature movement skills.
- The student understands safety rules and proper use of equipment in a variety of physical activities.
- The student understands the components of health and skill-related fitness and interprets information from feedback and self-evaluation in order to improve performance.
- The student develops a better understanding of how eating healthy foods improves physical and mental performance.
- The student understands and recognizes the physical, social and emotional aspects of healthful living.
- The student develops a greater understanding of the functions of different bodily systems, how they affect growth and development and how to maintain a balance of life’s choices such as stress, sleep and nutrition.
- The student acquires skills to live safely and reduce health risks by introducing the topics of positive and negative peer pressure and conflict resolution and first aid skills.
- The student understands how culture, family (adoption, grandparents, single parent) and environment factors affect personal health.
- The student understands, analyzes and evaluates influences of marketing strategies on health and fitness products.
- The student analyzes and develop a personal health and fitness plan.
Choose Curriculum
Physical Education 8
Team sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports are among the types of activities students learn about and participate in during this course! This interactive, highly animated course helps students learn safety rules for exercise, how to improve skills, and how to establish and accomplish goals. It also provides an overview of many dual, team, extreme, and outdoor sports. Students have the opportunity to earn a national award by participating in the Presidential Fitness Challenge. Practicing game strategy to improve the chance of winning in competition, improving sport skills and performance, diversity in sports, nutrition, peer pressure, and making good choices balance out the topics students discover in this course. Fitness logs help students monitor physical activities. Students complete projects that lead to the knowledge, skills, and values they need to implement and maintain a physically active lifestyle.
Online
Items
| Name | Kind | ISBN | Returnable | Shared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middle School Comprehensive PE 7/8 | Online Class | No | No | |
| Walking Pedometer Activity Fitness Tracker | Other | No | No |
Timeline
01.02 Introduction to Physical Fitness
01.03 Safety First
01.04 Warming Up and Cooling Down
01.05 Health-Related Components of Fitness
01.06 Cardiovascular Activity
01.08 FITT Training Principles
02.01 Do You Have Skills?
02.02 Speed, Agility, and Reaction Time
02.03 Balance and Coordination
02.05 Body Mechanics
02.06 Play by the Rules
02.08 Outdoor Pursuits
03.01 Playing with Others
03.02 Be a Good Sport
03.04 Alternative and Extreme Activities
03.05 Team Sports
03.06 Winning Strategies
04.01 Fitness Opportunities
04.03 Peer Pressure
04.04 Sportsmanship
04.06 Nutrition
05.01 Health Risks
05.03 Making Healthy Decisions
05.04 Enhancing One's Health
05.05 Positive and Negative Health Influences from Family, Peers, and Culture
Collaboration Project