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PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND
HEALTH
COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
9815 Understanding Personal Fitness
(Grades 9-10) .5 Credit
This course will
include a theory application program
entitled Fitness For Life designed to
help students identify the what, why
and how of exercise, and to guide
them toward personal lifetime
exercise and fitness. In addition, a
variety of activities will be
provided including: team games,
individual sports, fitness
training/testing, aerobics, and
adventure learning skills.
9855 Health (Grade 9) .5 Credit
This course is
divided into the following units:
Stress Theory and Management;
Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drugs;
Human Development; Health Promotion
and Disease Prevention; Safety and
First Aid. Health incorporates
Pennsylvania Department of Education
goals, National Health Standards and
Mifflin County School District
Essential Skills objectives to
promote students who are:
knowledgeable in the various academic
aspects of health, self-directed
lifetime learners, and strategic
thinkers.
2810 Boys/2820 Girls Fitness for Life
(Grades 11-12) .5 Credit
A. Introduction
of: Life time sports to develop
useful and desirable skills to serve
as a basis for leisure-time
activities.
B. Development of:
Analytical thinking and judgment
through guided experiences in a wide
variety of meaningful and challenging
activities; a sense of individual
responsibility for acceptable
behavior involving life time
activities; a realization of the
importance of leisure-time activities
following graduation as a means of
physical fitness in future years.
1870 Strength & Conditioning I (Grades 9-12)
Three days per cycle .5 Credit
This course is
designed to offer our students an
elective that goes beyond the basic
physical education courses. This
activity will provide our students
with the opportunity to improve
self-esteem, self - concept, and
expose them to lifelong activity for
fitness. Class activities will
include strength training, agilities,
polymetrics, flexibility,
coordination, balance, and safety
awareness. Students will be assessed
on exercise and spotting techniques,
adherence to safety rules and
procedures, overload principles,
progression, and specificity.
1871 Advanced Strength &
Conditioning (Grades 11-12) Three days per
cycle .5 Credit
Prerequisites: Strength &
Conditioning I
This course is a
continuation of Strength &
Conditioning I. Many of the same
activities will be reinforced and
more advanced training methods will
be introduced. Students will
participate in and also help develop
the training programs. Students will
gain an understanding through
research and experience of effective
athletic training programs. This
course may be taken a maximum of two
times, but only once in any given
school year.
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