Physical Education

Lifetime Fitness and Wellness Pursuits

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) · TEKS 2022

29 standards
  • Movement patterns and movement skills (1)
    • LFWP.PE.1.A

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

    • LFWP.PE.1.B

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

  • Performance strategies (2)
    • LFWP.PE.2.A

      Apply appropriate procedures to ensure safety.

    • LFWP.PE.2.B

      Apply appropriate practices and procedures to improve skills in various fitness activities.

    • LFWP.PE.2.C

      Perform skills and appropriate techniques at a basic level of competency.

    • LFWP.PE.2.D

      Modify movement during performance using appropriate internal and external feedback.

    • LFWP.PE.2.E

      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 (3)
    • LFWP.PE.3.A

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

    • LFWP.PE.3.B

      Identify and describe exercise techniques that may be harmful or unsafe.

    • LFWP.PE.3.C

      Explain the relationships among hydration, physical activity, and environmental conditions.

    • LFWP.PE.3.D

      Explain the relationship between physical fitness and wellness.

    • LFWP.PE.3.E

      Participate in a variety of activities that develop health-related physical fitness.

    • LFWP.PE.3.F

      Describe training principles appropriate to enhance cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility.

    • LFWP.PE.3.G

      Exhibit a basic level of competency in two or more aerobic and two or more anaerobic activities.

    • LFWP.PE.3.H

      Select and use appropriate technology tools to evaluate, monitor, and improve health-related fitness.

    • LFWP.PE.3.I

      Design and implement a personal fitness program that includes health-related fitness components.

    • LFWP.PE.3.J

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

    • LFWP.PE.3.K

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

  • Social and emotional health (4)
    • LFWP.PE.4.A

      Describe and analyze the relationship between physical activity and social and emotional health.

    • LFWP.PE.4.B

      Discuss how improvement is possible with appropriate practice.

    • LFWP.PE.4.C

      Identify and respond to challenges, successes, conflicts, and failures in physical activities in socially appropriate ways.

    • LFWP.PE.4.D

      Explain how to accept successes and performance limitations of self and others by exhibiting appropriate behavior and response.

    • LFWP.PE.4.E

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

  • Lifetime wellness (5)
    • LFWP.PE.5.A

      Describe how sleep is essential to optimal performance and recovery.

    • LFWP.PE.5.B

      Identify myths associated with physical activity and nutritional practices.

    • LFWP.PE.5.C

      Explain the relationship between nutritional practices and physical activity.

    • LFWP.PE.5.D

      Explain the risks of over training.

    • LFWP.PE.5.E

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

    • LFWP.PE.5.F

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