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Physical Education I

1/2 credit

CONTENT: The Physical Education course emphasizes the importance of continued physical activity and the overall impact it has on life expectancy. Knowledge and skills of movement are acquired to enable the student to pursue a physically active lifestyle and to understand the relationship between physical activity and overall health throughout a life span. The students will explore different styles of exercise. Physical Education health-related fitness and an appreciation for teamwork and fair play through team sports. Students will gain knowledge of physical activity and health components that may be used throughout life. Students will demonstrate a competency in many movement forms and proficiency in three or more team sports.

SKILLS: Motor skills are developed and reinforced, and students demonstrate competency in many forms of movement. While participating in physical activity the student applies physiological and biomechanical principles.

PREREQUISITES: None

LENGTH OF COURSE: One semester

Health

1/2 credit – Freshman

CONTENT: Good health is determined by meeting the physical and emotional needs of the body. This course divides the curriculum into four major areas: knowledge of one’s physical self, knowledge of one’s emotional self, elements which add to one’s health and elements which take away from one’s health. Presenting the facts and allowing the students to make sound decisions based on knowledge rather than myth or hearsay are the crux of this course.

SKILLS: Students will develop decision-making skills that will make them health literate adults. They will develop problem solving skills, and research and goal setting techniques and skills that will promote their health and that of their community.

PREREQUISITES: None

LENGTH OF COURSE: One semester