Grade 8 Overall Expectations:
Active Participation
Actively participate according to their capabilities in a wide variety of program activities
- Canadian 24-Hour Movement Guidelines for Children and Youth (Website)
- The Ability Toolkit: A Resource for Parents of Children and Youth with a Disability (Website)
- Time Management for Teens: “Scheduling is Power” (Website)
Demonstrate an understanding of factors that contribute to their personal enjoyment of being active as they participate in a diverse range of physical activities in a variety of indoor and outdoor environments
Demonstrate an understanding of the factors that motivate or impede participation in physical activity every day to be physically active
- What Teens Think About: Role Models (YouTube)
- Kids Can Help Parents Get Healthier (Website)
- Overcoming Obstacles to Physical Activity (Website)
- Beating the Odds | 6 Stories That Prove Anything Is Possible (YouTube)
Physical Fitness
Daily Physical Activity (DPA): participate in sustained moderate to vigorous physical activity, with appropriate warmup and cool-down activities, to the best of their ability for a minimum of 20 minutes each day
- 5 of the Best TikTok Dance Challenges (Website)
- 30-Minute Hip-Hop Tabata to Torch Calories (YouTube)
- 30-Minute Hip-Hop Fit Workout (YouTube)
- Fun HIIT Circuit for Kids (YouTube)
- How to Stay Active As a Teen (Website)
Recognize the difference between health-related components of personal fitness and skill-related components, and explain how to use training principles to enhance both components
- Canadian Physical Activity Guidelines (Website)
- 8 Fitness Tips for Teenagers (Website)
- Planning for Physical Fitness (Website)
Assess their level of health-related fitness during various physical activities and monitor changes in fitness levels over time
- DPA Tracker (Website)
- How to Feel Your Heart Beat (YouTube)
- What Happens To Your Body When You Start Exercising Regularly (YouTube)
Develop, implement, and revise a personal plan to meet short term, health-related fitness goals and physical activity goals
- Examples of Short-Term Fitness Goals (Website)
- What Are Your Goals: Motivational Video (YouTube)
Safety
Demonstrate behaviours and apply procedures that maximize their safety and lessen the risk of injury, including the risk of concussion, for themselves and others during physical activity
- How to Be Safe When You’re in the Sun (Website)
- Ultraviolet Radiation (Website)
- Sun Safety Basics (Website)
- Melanoma (Website)
- Indoor Tanning (Website)
- Tips for Taking Care of Your Skin (Website)
Demonstrate a basic understanding of how to deal with emergency situations that may occur while participating in physical activity
- How To Stay Calm Under Pressure (YouTube)
- What are the Signs and Symptoms of Anaphylaxis? (YouTube)
- How to Use a Defibrillator (AED) (YouTube)
- Automated external defibrillators (AEDs) (Website)