Curriculum Crosswalk for Oregon Benchmarks for 8th Grade Pyramid Plus
Arts
Create, present, and perform works of
art.
Create, present and perform
AR.08.CP.01 Select and combine essential elements and
organizational principles to achieve a desired effect when
creating, presenting, and/or performing works of art.
AR.08.CP.03 Create, present, and/or perform a work of art
by controlling essential elements and organizational
principles to express an intended idea, mood, or feeling.
English Language Arts
Listen to and Read Informational and
Narrative Text: Listen to, read, and
understand a wide variety of
informational and narrative text across
the subject areas at school and on
own, applying comprehension
strategies as needed.
Vocabulary: Increase word knowledge
through systematic vocabulary
development; determine the meaning
Activities
Nutrition and Healthy Habit
Poster, Dietary Guidelines
Poster, Role Play, Healthy
Snacks Booklet
Nutrition and Healthy Habit
Poster, Dietary Guidelines
Poster, Role Play, Healthy
Snacks Booklet
Reading
EL.08.RE.02 Listen to, read, and understand a wide variety
of informational and narrative text, including classic and
contemporary literature, poetry, magazines, newspapers,
reference materials, and online information.
Activities
EL.08.RE.04 Demonstrate listening comprehension of more
complex text through class and/or small group interpretive
discussions across the subject areas.
EL.08.RE.05 Match reading to purpose—location of
information, full comprehension, and personal enjoyment.
Key Words Activities
EL.08.RE.08 Understand, learn, and use new vocabulary
that is introduced and taught directly through
informational text, literary text, and instruction across the
Take Aim Game, The Harm of PoorChoices Paula Activity, Compare
Fast Foods
Nutrient Rich Activity, Pyramid Plus
Chart, Vocabulary Activity,
Nutrition Plan Activity, Food Record
Reflection
Pyramid Activities, Take Aim Game,
Vocabulary Activity, Define Dietary
Guidelines, myth, fact, Nutrition
Myths
of new words by applying knowledge
of word origins, word relationships,
and context clues; verify the meaning
of new words; and use those new
words accurately across the subject
areas.
Read to Perform a Task: Find,
understand, and use specific
information in a variety of texts across
the subject areas to perform a task.
Informational Text: Develop an
Interpretation: Develop an
interpretation of grade-level
informational text across the subject
areas.
Informational Text: Examine Content
and Structure: Examine content and
structure of grade-level informational
text across the subject areas.
subject areas.
EL.08.RE.09 Develop vocabulary by listening to and
discussing both familiar and conceptually challenging
selections read aloud across the subject areas.
EL.08.RE.14 Read textbooks; biographical sketches; letters;
diaries; directions; procedures; magazines. Essays; primary
source historical documents; editorials; news stories;
periodicals; bus routes; catalogs; technical directions;
consumer, workplace, and public documents.
EL.08.RE.15 Synthesize information found in various parts
of charts, tables, diagrams, glossaries, or related gradelevel text to read supported conclusions.
EL.08.RE.19 Predict probably future outcomes supported
by the text.
Key Words Activity, Vocabulary
Activity, Define words activities,
Label Reading Activity
Various Pyramid Plus Activities and
Teacher Delivery Activities
Various Pyramid Plus Activities and
Teacher Delivery Activities
The Harm of Poor-Choice Paula
Activity
EL.08.RE.27 Synthesize and use information from a variety Research non-credible nutrition
of consumer and public documents to explain a situation or information, Research health
decision and to solve a problem.
factors that relate to weight
English Language Arts
Writing
Writing: Communicate supported ideas EL.08.WR.10 Create compositions that engage the reader,
Activities
Review Quick2Fix meal
across the subject areas, including
relevant examples, facts, anecdotes,
and details appropriate to audience
and purpose that engage reader
interest; organize information in clear
sequence, making connections and
transitions among ideas, sentences,
and paragraphs; and use precise words
and fluent sentence structures that
support meaning.
Conventions: Punctuation:
Demonstrate knowledge of spelling,
grammar, punctuation, capitalization,
and penmanship across the subject
areas.
Conventions: Handwriting:
Demonstrate knowledge of spelling,
grammar, punctuation, capitalization,
and penmanship across the subject
areas.
have a clear message, a coherent thesis, and end with a
clear and well-supported conclusion.
Research Report Writing: Investigate
topics of interest and importance
across the subject areas, selecting
appropriate media sources, using
effective research processes, and
demonstrating ethical use of resources
and materials.
EL.08.WR.32 Plan and conduct multiple step information
searches by using computer networks.
EL.08.WR.21 Use conventions of punctuation correctly,
including commas, hyphens, dashes, and semi-colons.
Review Quick2Fix Meal
EL.08.WR.23 Write legibly.
Food Records, Advocacy Project,
Sorting Nutrition Myths,
Nutrition Action Plan, Let’s Talk
about Foods, Make a Healthy
Fast Food Guide, Quick & Easy
Meal Activity, Lunch for 5 Days
Advocacy Project, Research noncredible nutrition information,
Research health factors
regarding weight, Compare Fast
Foods
EL.08.WR.33 Analyze the validity and reliability of primary
and secondary sources, and use the information
appropriately.
Advocacy Project, Research noncredible nutrition information,
Research health factors
regarding weight, Compare Fast
Foods
English Language Arts
Speaking: Communicate supported ideas
across the subject areas using oral, visual,
and multimedia forms in ways appropriate
to topic, context, audience, and purpose;
organize oral, visual, and multimedia
presentations in clear sequence, making
connections and transitions among ideas
and elements; use language appropriate
to topic, context, audience, and purpose;
and demonstrate control of eye contact,
speaking rate, volume, enunciation,
inflection, gestures, and other non-verbal
techniques.
Listening: Listen critically and respond
appropriately across the subject areas.
Speaking and Listening
EL.08.SL.01 Develop a focus and present information to
achieve particular purposes by matching the message,
vocabulary, voice modulation, expression, tone to the
audience and purpose.
Activities
Sample Food Records
EL.08.SL.03 Use credible and relevant information to
convey message.
EL.08.SL.07 Use appropriate enunciation, pace, eye
contact, and gestures to engage the audience during
formal presentations.
EL.08.SL.08 Analyze oral presentations, including language
choice and delivery, and the effect of the speaker’s
interpretation on the listener.
EL.08.SL.09 Paraphrase a speaker’s purpose and point of
view, and ask relevant questions concerning the speaker’s
content, delivery, and purpose.
Advocacy Project, Group Work
Presentations
Advocacy Project, Group Work
Presentations
EL.08.SL.12 Interpret and evaluate the various ways in
which visual image-makers (e.g., graphic artists,
Food Marketing Discussion,
Roadblock Brainstorm, Interview
an Adult
Food Marketing Discussion,
Interview an Adult, Dietary
Guidelines Discussion, Change in
Eating Lesson, Fast Food Facts
Lesson
Food Marketing Activity, What is
Normal Poster Activity
illustrators, news photographers, film makers)
communicate information and affect impressions and
opinions.
Health Education
Acquire knowledge and skills to
understand and practice health habits
that can prevent and/or control
disease.
Health Education
Acquire knowledge and skills to
understand and practice healthful
nutrition that contributes to growth
and energy and helps prevent chronic
diseases.
Health Education
Acquire knowledge and skills to
understand that mental, social, and
emotional health contributes to
Prevention and Control of Disease
HE.08.DI.01 Describe personal health care practices that
prevent the spread of communicable disease including
HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis B and C.
Activities
Hand Washing
HE.08.DI.02 Demonstrate personal health care practices
that prevent the spread of communicable disease. (Self
Management)
Hand Washing
Promotion of Healthy Eating
HE.08.HE.01 Explain the importance of variety and
moderation in food selection and consumption.
Activities
HE.08.HE.02 Tract progress toward achieving a short term
personal goal related to variety and moderation within
healthy eating. (Goal Setting)
Promotion of Mental, Social, and Emotional Health
HE.08.MH.01 Identify how emotions change during
adolescence.
Various Pyramid Plus Activities and
Teacher Delivery Activities
Various Pyramid Plus Activities and
Teacher Delivery Activities
Activities
“So, What is Normal?” Activity
building and maintaining interpersonal
relationships.
Physical Education
Fitness for Lifetime
Demonstrate knowledge of a physically PE.08.FL.01 Develop personal activity goals and describe
active lifestyle.
benefits that result from regular participation.
Activities
MyPyramid Wheel Activity, Food
Equivalent Activity, Food
Records, Exit Ticket, Nutrition
Action Plan