Team Sports
General Physical Education
Offered: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of
team sports ranging from basketball, volleyball, softball,
flag football soccer and any other team oriented sport. This
course offers the student the opportunity to learn the sport
history, rules and regulations, etiquette, strategy and
judgment, and basic motor skills.
Life Sports
Offered: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: None
This course is designed to introduce students to different
lifetime sports. The course may include the following: tennis,
badminton, basketball, volleyball, golf, bowling and any other
individual or dual sport or activity. It will also offer the
student the opportunity to learn the sport history, rules and
regulations, etiquette, strategy and judgment, and basic motor
skills for each activity.
Weight Training
Advanced Physical Conditioning
Body Sculpting
Advanced Personal Fitness
Offered: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: None
These courses are designed to introduce students to a program
of activities that promotes the development of health related
fitness. Activities may include stretching exercises,
weightlifting, strength training, polymeric exercises,
flexibility and physical fitness training. Students will
devise an individual program for their fitness and strength
level.
Personal Fitness (BPE) (Required
for graduation)
Offered: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: Offered only in 11th & 12th
Personal Fitness is designed to help students understand
why exercise and fitness are important and will emphasize
successful strategies for maintaining good cardiovascular
endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, and muscular
endurance. The course will follow a conceptual approach
dealing with the following topics: understanding the nature of
fitness; appraising individual fitness; understanding methods
of conditioning, exercise precautions and fallacies, and
problems with maintaining a lifelong fitness program;
developing a personal fitness program; and assessing diet and
exercise and how they affect your health. In addition the
course includes the physical training and fitness goals.
Health (Required for graduation)
Offered: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: Offered only in 11th and 12th
Health allows students to develop a higher state of
wellness through an understanding of preventative health
strategies as they pertain to personal health, mental health,
nutrition, communicative and chronic diseases, consumer
health, first aid and CPR, drug education, community health,
and family living. An emphasis is placed on the
decision-making process and preventative health care.
Aerobic Dance
Rhythm and Dance
Offered: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: None
Aerobic dance is designed to introduce students to a rhythmic
program of activities, which promote the development of
cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, body toning, muscular
strength and muscular endurance.
Sports Medicine
Teacher Recommendation for 11th and 12th
Introduction into athletic training and fields relating
directly to sports specific injuries and careers.
Track and Field
Outdoor Education
Offered: Fall and Spring
Prerequisite: None
This course introduces the history, rules, and basic skills
involved in various track and field events, as well as
promoting an appreciation of the outdoors with physical
activities and adventure in an outdoor laboratory.
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