High School PE TEKS Standards

Movement patterns and movement skills. While participating in physical activity, the physically literate student applies physiological and biomechanical principles to improve health-related fitness. The student is expected to:

apply physiological and fitness principles related to exercise and training, including warm-up and cool-down, overload, frequency, intensity, time, and specificity; and

apply basic biomechanical principles related to exercise and training, including force, leverage, and type of contraction.

Performance strategies. During physical activity, the physically literate student applies skills, techniques, and safety practices associated with physical activity. The student is expected to:

apply appropriate procedures to ensure safety;

apply appropriate practices and procedures to improve skills in various fitness activities;

perform skills and appropriate techniques at a basic level of competency;

modify movement during performance using appropriate internal and external feedback; and

explain various methods to achieve personal fitness, including interval training, circuit training, high-intensity interval training (HIIT), and functional fitness training.

Health, physical activity, and fitness. The physically literate student applies fitness principles that encompass personal fitness programs, nutrition, technology, and environmental awareness. The student is expected to:

demonstrate appropriate safety procedures, including wearing proper attire, using equipment safely, practicing exercise etiquette, and recognizing situational environmental hazards;

identify and describe exercise techniques that may be harmful or unsafe;

explain the relationships among hydration, physical activity, and environmental conditions;

explain the relationship between physical fitness and wellness;

participate in a variety of activities that develop health-related physical fitness;

describe training principles appropriate to enhance cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility;

exhibit a basic level of competency in two or more aerobic and two or more anaerobic activities;

select and use appropriate technology tools to evaluate, monitor, and improve health-related fitness;

design and implement a personal fitness program that includes health-related fitness components;

measure and evaluate personal skill-related components of physical fitness, including agility, balance, coordination, power, reaction time, and speed; and

measure and evaluate personal fitness in terms of health-related fitness components.

Social and emotional health. During physical activity, the physically literate student develops positive self-management and social skills needed to work independently and with others. The student is expected to:

describe and analyze the relationship between physical activity and social and emotional health;

discuss how improvement is possible with appropriate practice;

identify and respond to challenges, successes, conflicts, and failures in physical activities in socially appropriate ways;

explain how to accept successes and performance limitations of self and others by exhibiting appropriate behavior and response; and

evaluate the impact of the use of technology on social and emotional health.

Lifetime wellness. The physically literate student comprehends practices that will impact daily performance, physical activity, and health throughout the lifespan. The student is expected to:

describe how sleep is essential to optimal performance and recovery;

identify myths associated with physical activity and nutritional practices;

explain the relationship between nutritional practices and physical activity;

explain the risks of over training;

evaluate consumer issues and trends related to physical fitness such as marketing claims promoting fitness and nutritional products, services, and supplements; and

analyze how nutrition, exercise, and other factors impact body composition.

Movement patterns and movement skills. The student demonstrates competency in five or more lifetime recreational and outdoor pursuits such as backpacking, camping, hiking, navigation, water sports, paddle sports, boater education, water safety education, angler education, hunter education, archery, outdoor survival and safety, climbing, adventure activities, challenge course or team building, lawn games, skating, skiing, cycling, and disc sports. The student is expected to:

demonstrate execution of basic skills in lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits;

apply the rules and strategies of the selected lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits; and

design a conditioning program for the selected lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits.

Performance strategies. The physically literate student applies movement concepts and principles to the learning, development, and execution of motor skills applicable to the selected lifetime recreational and outdoor pursuits. The student is expected to:

modify movement during performance using appropriate internal and external feedback; and

identify critical elements for a successful performance during a specific activity.

Health, physical activity, and fitness. The physically literate student exhibits a physically active lifestyle that improves health and provides opportunities for enjoyment and challenge. The student is expected to:

participate in lifetime recreational and outdoor pursuits that provide for enjoyment and challenge;

describe training principles for enhancing flexibility, muscular strength and endurance, and cardiorespiratory endurance;

establish realistic and challenging health-related fitness goals;

select and use appropriate technology tools to evaluate, monitor, and improve health-related fitness;

analyze health and fitness benefits derived from participation in lifetime recreational and outdoor pursuits; and

design and participate in a personal health-related fitness program that has the potential to meet identified activity goals.

Social and emotional health. The physically literate student articulates the benefit of time spent in recreation or outdoor pursuits to promote mental, social, and emotional health. The student is expected to:

demonstrate teamwork such as leadership, problem solving, trust, creativity, cooperation, conflict resolution, and communication while engaging in selected lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits;

demonstrate etiquette appropriate for selected lifetime recreation and outdoor activities;

evaluate the impact of the use of technology on social and emotional health;

analyze and summarize critical information on the mental, social, and emotional health benefits of engagement in outdoor pursuits; and

design a personal wellness plan that includes time engaging in outdoor pursuits.

Lifetime wellness. The physically literate student recognizes the relationship between lifetime recreation or outdoor pursuits and health. The student is expected to:

list and describe safety equipment used in selected lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits;

explain and follow safety procedures during selected lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits;

identify and apply the health-related fitness principles to selected lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits;

describe how sleep is essential to optimal performance and recovery;

analyze the advantages and disadvantages of lifetime recreation and outdoor pursuits and their effects on personal fitness;

provide evidence of developing and maintaining health-related fitness; and

design safe practices and procedures to improve skill during an activity.

Movement patterns and movement skills. The physically literate student applies movement skills while participating in a minimum of five lifelong activities, including one from each of the following categories: target, striking and fielding, fitness, rhythmic, and innovative games and activities with international significance. The student is expected to:

exhibit a level of competency in one or more target activities such as archery, disc golf, backyard target games, bowling, and golf;

exhibit a level of competency in one or more striking and fielding activities such as kickball, softball, baseball, and racquet sports;

exhibit a level of competency in one or more fitness activities that promote cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and flexibility;

exhibit a level of competency in one or more rhythmic activities; and

exhibit a level of competency in one or more innovative games and activities with international significance such as cricket, futsal, speed ball, and team handball.

Performance strategies. The physically literate student applies tactics and strategies to be successful in skill-based lifetime activities. The student is expected to:

perform skills and strategies consistently;

modify movement during performance using appropriate internal and external feedback;

describe appropriate practice procedures to improve skill and strategy in a sport;

identify the critical elements for successful performance;

demonstrate proper officiating techniques, including hand signals, verbal communication, and application of rules, to ensure safe participation in activities; and

keep score accurately during games or activities.

Health, physical activity, and fitness. The physically literate student applies knowledge of health and fitness principles to participation in skill-based lifetime activities. The student is expected to:

establish realistic and challenging health-related fitness goals for selected skill-based lifetime activities;

apply appropriate safety procedures to prevent or reduce injuries in skill-based lifetime activities; and

analyze health and fitness benefits derived from participating in skill-based lifetime activities.

Social and emotional health. The physically literate student applies principles for social and emotional health to participation in selected skill-based lifetime activities. The student is expected to:

acknowledge good play from an opponent during competition;

explain the importance of accepting the roles and decisions of officials;

explain the importance of accepting successes and performance limitations of self and others;

discuss the importance of accepting personal responsibility to create and maintain a physically and emotionally safe and nonthreatening environment while officiating; and

discuss and apply ways to respond to challenges, successes, and failures in physical activities in socially appropriate ways.

Lifetime wellness. The physically literate student applies wellness principles to participation in selected skill-based lifetime activities. The student is expected to:

select and participate in at least one skill-based lifetime activity that provides for enjoyment and challenge from each category, including target, striking and fielding, fitness, rhythmic, and innovative games and activities with international significance; and

describe how sleep is essential to optimal performance and recovery.