Health Opportunities Through Physical Education
Overview
Your path to lifelong fitness starts here. You’ll set a variety of goals that will guide you toward leading a healthy lifestyle. During your journey, you’ll perform daily physical activity, design a personal fitness plan that suits your interests, and keep track of your fitness progress. You’ll monitor your exercise and nutrition using a personalized wellness plan.
Major Concepts:
- Importance of Physical Activity
- Safety
- Goals
- Personal Wellness Planning
- Cardiorespiratory Fitness
- Training Principles
- Health-Related Fitness
- Flexibility
- Monitoring Activity
- Peer Influence
- Muscular Strength and Endurance
- Training Expectations and the Media
- Skill-Related Fitness
- Good Eats
- Lifetime Fitness
- Avoidance
- Advertising
- Happiness
- Mental Fitness
- Healthy Relationships
- Health and Technology
- Personal Menu
- Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drugs
- Drugs and Alcohol: Risks and Effects
- The Weight Epidemic
- Body Composition
- Healthy Development and Disease
- First Aid and CPR
- Self-advocacy For Personal Health
Grade Level
Grade 9, 10, 11, 12
Duration
Annual
Requirements
Fitness Assessment Supplies
- Yard stick or tape measure
- Stopwatch or a watch that counts seconds
- Pieces of paper
- Tape
- Bathroom scale Working speakers for course videos
Prerequisites
None
