Physical Education 9th Grade:
Grade Level: 9
Course Credit: 0.4 Credits
Prerequisite(s): none
Description: Physical education 9 is a class designed to promote healthy lifestyles through physical activity. The focus of this class is based around both traditional team games as well current modified games. Strong participation, individual skills, and team work are the focal point of this physical education class.
Among the activities covered in this class will be fitness testing, skills tests, and an introduction to team building through various team games. This material will be presented in by te instructor in the form of a handout. Handouts will contain parts of history, terminology, rules, and safety issues. Tested material will come directly from the handout.
Physical Education/Health 10:
Grade Level: 10
Course Credit: 1.0 Credits
Prerequisite(s): none
Description: Physical Education 10 is a class that explores more in to the team building concepts as well as individual physical skills. This class takes the individual skills learned from the previous year and builds upon those by incorporating them into the various games and sports played in the class. The health emphasis will be on leading a healthy Christian lifestyle, nutrition, and the dangers of addictive substances and seeing our bodies as blessings used to God’s glory. Some activities may be taught separately to the boys and girls while a few will be coed.
Human Performance:
Grade Level: 11-12
Course Credit: 0.5 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Physical Education 9 and 10
Description: Human performance is a class designed to continue the promotion of healthy lifestyles through physical activity. In this class the focus is not on team activities as much but rather personal, self-training with activities that can be carried on throughout the course of a persons life. Among the activities that will be covered in this class will be proper weight training, aerobic and anaerobic conditioning, fitness testing, fitness planning, and a term paper as the final. These areas will be tested on in the appropriate manner, and along with effort, will compose the student’s grade.
Peak Performance:
Grade Level: 11-12
Course Credit: 0.5 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Physical education 9&10
Description: Exercise Science is a semester-long advanced physical education class that not only stresses life-long fitness but also focuses on essential dietary and nutritional needs. The students will advance their knowledge from Human Performance and apply that in an advanced weight room & classroom setting. This course is a regimented 4 to 5 day a week program that will strive to push the human body to find the various desired physical results while learning various measurement & evaluation techniques in the process (BMI, weight calipers, Heart monitors).
Once every two weeks there will be a nutritional day that will be devoted to the study of exercise science. Topics will range from the following: the breakdown of vitamins and minerals, dietary supplements, grocery budgeting, meal planning, Long term goals, short term goals, fitness planning, body mass index, types of activities (aerobic, anaerobic, isometric, isotonic, isokinetic), FITT formula, and finally the continuous monitoring of fitness progress that will be tracked for the entire semester. Our ultimate goal in the course is to equip these young Christian adults with gained knowledge as well as the “know-how” to carry on a healthy lifestyle many years after high school.
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