After successfully completing the course, students will comprehend the basic principles from the following Physical Education Units:

• Introduction to Physical Education
• Activity Logs
• PE KIT
• Personal Fitness throughout Life and Goal Setting
• Fitness: A Lifetime Goal
• Your Changing Personal Fitness Goals
• Health-Related and Skill Related Fitness
• FITT and the Principle of Overload
• The Principle of Specificity
• The Principle of Progression
• Warm up, Work out, Cool Down
• Nutrition and Your Personal Fitness
• The Importance of Nutrition
• Vitamins, Minerals, and Water
• Choosing Food Wisely
• Nutrition and Peak Performance
• Target Heart Rate
• The Heart is a Pump
• The Circulatory and Respiratory System and Blood Flow  
• Heart Rate Measuring Techniques
• Measuring your Exercise Heart Rate
• Cardio Respiratory Endurance and Developing Cardio Respiratory Endurance
• Your Heart, Lungs, and Circulation
• Aerobic vs Anaerobic Physical Activities
• Safety and Injury Prevention
• Personal Fitness Screenings
• Environmental Concerns
• Safety Gear and Clothing
• Preventing Fitness Injuries
• Avoiding Harmful Substances
• Social Dance and Movement
• Lifetime Sports
• Running
• Walking
• Volleyball
• Golf
• Football

All course work is aligned to the Pennsylvania Health, Safety, and Physical Education Standards. All information in this course falls under the category of one of the following: Concepts of Health, Healthful Living, Safety and Injury Prevention, Physical Activity, or Concepts, Principles and Strategies of Movement.
            

Materials:

Glencoe: Foundations of Personal Fitness

Home Facilitator Involvement Level: 1 (click here for levels) Assistance is required for 1-10% of schoolwork.

Difficulty: On-Level

Grades Offered: 9-12

After successfully completing the course, students will comprehend the basic principles from the following Health Units:

• Peer Relationships
• Safe and Healthy Friendships
• Peer Pressure and Refusal Skills
• Practicing Abstinence
• Communicable Diseases
• Understanding Communicable Diseases
• Emerging Diseases and Pandemics
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV/AIDS
• Understanding, Preventing and Treating STD’s
• Understanding, Preventing and Treating HIV/AIDS
• Nutrition for Health and Managing Weight and Eating Disorders
• The Importance of Nutrition
• Nutrients
• Healthy Food Guidelines
• Nutrition Labels and Food Safety
• Maintaining a Healthy Weight
• Body Image and Eating Disorders
• Lifelong Nutrition
• Tobacco, Alcohol, and Drugs
• The Role of Medicines
• Using Medicines Safely
• The Health Risks of Tobacco Use & Choosing to Live Tobacco Free
• Promoting a Smoke-Free Environment
• The Health Risks of Alcohol Use & Choosing to Live Alcohol Free
• The Impact of Alcohol Abuse
• The Health Risks of Drug Use & Living Drug Free
• Marijuana, Inhalants, Steroids & Psychoactive Drugs
• First Aid and Emergencies: Bleeding, Burns, CPR, and Poison
• Achieving Mental and Emotional Health
• Developing Your Self-Esteem
• Developing Personal Identity and Character
• Expressing Emotions in Healthful Ways
• Managing Stress and Coping with Loss
• Understanding Stress
• Managing Stress
• Coping with Loss and Grief
• Mental and Emotional Problems
• Mental Disorders
• Suicide Prevention/Bullying
• Getting Help
              

Materials:

Glencoe: Glencoe Health 2011

Home Facilitator Involvement Level: 1 (click here for levels) Assistance is required for 1-10% of schoolwork.

Difficulty: On-Level

Grades Offered: 9-12