PE and Health Course Descriptions
Health II: The goal of Health Education at the high school level is to help establish patterns of behavior that will assist a person in achieving complete health. Complete health is accomplished by having a balance of physical, mental, social, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to acquire knowledge, incorporate and process life skills, and develop positive attitudes about life. Students and their parents have the option to choose health with or without a unit on human sexuality.
Fitness for Life: Fit for Life is required for graduation. This course helps each student adopt a personal lifestyle that will achieve physical fitness.
Individual Lifetime Activities: Students in this course will acquire skills in a variety of lifetime activities that contribute to sustained fitness and well-being.
Weight Training: This course is designed for the student to increase strength, speed, quickness, and agility. Individual weight-training programs are computer generated. Students will know muscle terminology and the proper lifting techniques.
Advanced Weights:
Body Toning: This course is designed to improve overall physical condition through circuit training, light weight training, flexibility exercises, and cardio exercises. The emphasis is on muscle toning and is not designed for students wishing to gain muscle bulk through heavy weightlifting.
Dance: This is a beginning-level dance course that builds dance knowledge and skill in technique, improvisation, choreography, artistic expression, performance, history, culture, life skills, and connections to other curricular areas. This class may be used as either Art credit or Healthy Lifestyles credit.
Social Dance: This course teaches dance skills from many eras and cultures, including waltz, fox trot, swing, line dance, and tango, to name a few. The history and music of each style is taught, along with the etiquette and manners of dancing in a social context. This class may be used as either Art or Healthy Lifestyles credit.
Yoga: In this class, we will utilize yoga practices to become more physically, mentally, energetically, and emotionally fit. This class will present techniques in yoga. Yoga means union, and refers to the union of the body, mind, and breath. It is a system of self-care that was developed in India and is practiced all over the world. Yoga develops core strength and helps to develop lung capacity through careful breathing. The emphasis in this class will be asana practice which refers to poses and postures designed to develop flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance. Emphasis will be placed on correct alignment and safe practice. Yoga students will learn concepts of physical fitness, identify stress reduction techniques, gain an increased ability to concentrate, and develop a Personal Fitness Plan to support a lifetime of fitness.
Fitness for Life: Fit for Life is required for graduation. This course helps each student adopt a personal lifestyle that will achieve physical fitness.
Individual Lifetime Activities: Students in this course will acquire skills in a variety of lifetime activities that contribute to sustained fitness and well-being.
Weight Training: This course is designed for the student to increase strength, speed, quickness, and agility. Individual weight-training programs are computer generated. Students will know muscle terminology and the proper lifting techniques.
Advanced Weights:
Body Toning: This course is designed to improve overall physical condition through circuit training, light weight training, flexibility exercises, and cardio exercises. The emphasis is on muscle toning and is not designed for students wishing to gain muscle bulk through heavy weightlifting.
Dance: This is a beginning-level dance course that builds dance knowledge and skill in technique, improvisation, choreography, artistic expression, performance, history, culture, life skills, and connections to other curricular areas. This class may be used as either Art credit or Healthy Lifestyles credit.
Social Dance: This course teaches dance skills from many eras and cultures, including waltz, fox trot, swing, line dance, and tango, to name a few. The history and music of each style is taught, along with the etiquette and manners of dancing in a social context. This class may be used as either Art or Healthy Lifestyles credit.
Yoga: In this class, we will utilize yoga practices to become more physically, mentally, energetically, and emotionally fit. This class will present techniques in yoga. Yoga means union, and refers to the union of the body, mind, and breath. It is a system of self-care that was developed in India and is practiced all over the world. Yoga develops core strength and helps to develop lung capacity through careful breathing. The emphasis in this class will be asana practice which refers to poses and postures designed to develop flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular endurance. Emphasis will be placed on correct alignment and safe practice. Yoga students will learn concepts of physical fitness, identify stress reduction techniques, gain an increased ability to concentrate, and develop a Personal Fitness Plan to support a lifetime of fitness.
