Grade 8 Health and Physical Education

All Grade 8 students participate in the health and physical education program. The health education program emphasizes what students need to know, understand, and do to achieve a healthy lifestyle. The health education instruction provides students an understanding of origins and causes of disease. Students will begin to relate the consequences of health choices and apply health skills to personal, family and community advocacy. Areas of study include emotional, mental, social and environmental health, safety and preparedness, relationships, substance abuse and disease prevention, and family life education. The physical education instruction will transition from modified movement forms to complex application. Students will apply their knowledge of body structures and systems to how the body moves. Students will set goals and track progress to improve health related fitness. Students will develop a repertoire of abilities across a variety of sports/activities and begin to extend competence in lifelong activities.