Grade Level: 10-12
Course #:  3500
Length:  1 Semester
Credit(s):  One
Diploma: Counts as an elective requirement for all diplomas

Prerequisite:  Health & Wellness

Advanced Health and Wellness provides advanced knowledge and skills to help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors.  Through a variety of instructional strategies, students practice the development of functional advanced health information (essential concepts): determine personal values that support health behaviors; develop group norms that value a healthy lifestyle; develop the essential skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhanced behaviors.  Advanced Health and Wellness provides students with an in-depth study of unintentional injury and violence, promoting mental and emotional health, a tobacco, alcohol, and other drug-free lifestyle, and promoting human development and family health.  The scientific components of health and wellness, health issues and concerns, health risk appraisals, individual wellness plans, health promotion and health careers are expanded and explored within the context of the course.  This course provides students with the advanced knowledge and skills of health and wellness core concepts, analyzing influences, accessing information, interpersonal communication, decision-making and goal-setting skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and health and wellness advocacy skills.

Grade Level: 9-12
Course #:  3508
Length:   1 Semester
Credit(s):   One
Diploma:   Counts as an elective requirement for all diplomas

Prerequisite:   None

Current Health Issues is an elective course which focuses on specific health issues and/or emerging trends in health and wellness but not limited to:  personal health and wellness; non-communicable and communicable diseases; nutrition; mental and emotional health; tobacco prevention; alcohol and other drug prevention; human development and family health; health care and/or medical treatments; and national and/or international health issues.  This course provides students with the knowledge and skills of health and wellness core concepts, analyzing influences, accessing information, interpersonal communication, decision-making and goal-setting skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and health and wellness advocacy skills.

Grade Level: 10-12
Course #:  3563A
Length:   Full Year
Credit(s): Two
Diploma:  Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:  Successful completion of Physical Education I and II

This course will help prepare students for a better understanding of lifetime physical fitness.  During this course, students will be engaged in team sports, dual sports, stretching, and other cardio activities with a concentrated emphasis on weight training.

The academic portion of the course will improve the student’s knowledge in areas such as biomechanics and fitness terminology. Students will be given fitness and written exams periodically to assess the understanding of level of fitness. 

Grade Level: 11-12
Course #:  3563B
Length: Full Year
Credit(s): Two
Diploma:  Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:  Elective Physical Education: Conditioning and Weight Training I

This course will help to further prepare students for a better understanding of lifetime physical fitness.  During this course, students will be engaged in team sports, dual sports, stretching, and other cardio activities with a concentrated emphasis on weight training.

The academic portion of the course will improve the student’s knowledge in areas such as biomechanics and fitness terminology. Students will be given fitness and written exams periodically to assess the understanding of level of fitness. 

Grade Level: 12
Course #:  3563C
Length:  Full Year
Credit(s):  Two
Diploma:  Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:  Elective Physical Education: Conditioning and Weight Training II 

This course will help to further prepare students for a better understanding of lifetime physical fitness.  During this course, students will be engaged in team sports, dual sports, stretching, and other cardio activities with a concentrated emphasis on weight training.

The academic portion of the course will improve the student’s knowledge in areas such as biomechanics and fitness terminology. Students will be given fitness and written exams periodically to assess the understanding of level of fitness. 

Grade Level:  10-12
Course #:  3562
Length:  1 Semester
Credit(s):   One
Diploma:   General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:  Physical Education I & II

Elective Physical Education:  Functional Fitness is a one semester course designed to develop cardiovascular fitness.  Activities may include step aerobics, low/high impact aerobics, interval/circuit training, boot camp, and the latest fitness trends (i.e. Pulse, Yoga, Pilates, Zumba, etc.)  Students will be required to develop an appropriate aerobic exercise routine and then present/teach that routine to the class as the final assessment.

Grade Level: 10-12
Course #: 3561A (guard +class)

3561W (class only)
Length:     Full Year
Credit(s):  Two
Diploma:  General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:   None

This second level class provides the opportunity for students to experience more advanced degrees of physical prowess, technique, flexibility, and the study of dance performance.  Students will examine choreography and stage productions and observe dance performances through live and recorded means.  Students will be able to describe, analyze, interpret, and judge dance performances within the genre.  Auditions are held in the spring for entrance into the competing section of the (3561A) class only.

Grade Level: 11-12
Course #:  3561B(guard +class)

3561X (class only)
Length: Full Year
Credit(s): Two
Diploma: General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors
Prerequisite: Elective Physical Education: Movement and Dance Technique I

This third level class provides the opportunity for students to experience advanced degrees of physical prowess, technique, flexibility, and the study of dance performance.  Students will observe dance performances through live and recorded means.  Students will be able to describe, analyze, interpret and judge dance performances within the genre, and choreograph stage productions.  Auditions are held in the spring for entrance into the competing section of the class, (3561B only).

Grade Level: 12
Course #: 3561C (guard +class)

3561Y (class only)

Length:  Full Year
Credit(s): Two
Diploma: General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite: Elective Physical Education: Movement and Dance Technique II

This fourth level class provides opportunities for students to experience advanced degrees of physical prowess, technique, flexibility, and the study of dance performance.  Students will observe dance performances through live and recorded means. Students will be able to describe, analyze, interpret, and judge dance performances within the genre.  They will choreograph stage productions and organize business aspects of a dance concert.  Auditions are held in the spring for entrance into the competing section of the (3561C) class only.

Grade Level:  10-12
Course #:  3564
Length: 1 Semester
Credit(s): One
Diploma: General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:  Physical Education I & II

Elective Physical Education:  Aerobic Walking is a one semester course designed to help students understand the various walking programs that are available to increase cardiovascular endurance.  Learning experiences include the concepts of heart monitoring, blood pressure measurement, and care of physical injuries inherent to over training or accidents while walking.

Grade Level: 10-12
Course #:  3560
Length:   Full Year
Credit(s):  Two
Diploma:   Counts as an elective requirement for all diplomas

Prerequisite:   Physical Education I and II

Elective Physical Education:  Fitness for Life is an individualized, concepts-based course designed to give students the knowledge and skills necessary to self-assess, create, conduct, evaluate, and redesign personal fitness programs.  Students will become proficient in the use of a variety of assessments, measurement devices, exercise equipment, web and community resources, and computer software.  Reading and writing assignments, which include activity journals and portfolios, will broaden the physical education experience and contribute to the literacy of students.  Fitness testing, such as the Presidential Physical Fitness Test, will be used to establish individual baseline levels for designing fitness programs, to show improvement, and to provide students with personal information.  This class is designed to give students the opportunity to design and develop skills and attitudes that promote a healthy lifestyle. 

Grade Level: 10
Course #:  3506
Length:    1 Semester
Credit(s):  One
Diploma:   General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:   None

Health and Wellness provides the basis to help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors.  Health education should contribute directly to a student’s ability to successfully practice behaviors that protect and promote health and avoid or reduce health risks.  Through a variety of instructional strategies, students practice the development of functional health information (essential concepts); determine personal values that support health behaviors; develop group norms that value a healthy lifestyle; develop the essential skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors.  This course includes the application of priority areas in a planned, sequential, comprehensive health education curriculum.  Priority area include:  promoting personal health and wellness, physical activity, healthy eating, promoting safety and preventing unintentional injury and violence, promoting mental and emotional health, a tobacco-free lifestyle and an alcohol and other drug free lifestyle, and promoting human development and family health.  This course provides students with the knowledge and skills to health and wellness core concepts, analyzing influences, accessing information, interpersonal communication, decision-making and goal-setting skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and health and wellness advocacy skills.

Fulfills the Health and Wellness requirement for all diploma types

Grade Level: 9-12
Course #:  3542
Length:  1 Semester
Credit(s): One
Diploma: General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors

Prerequisite:   None

Physical Education I emphasizes health-related fitness, development of skills and habits necessary for a lifetime of activity, and fitness for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.  This coeducational program includes skill development, application of rules and strategies, and opportunities to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness in the following different movement forms: (1) health-related fitness activities, (2) aerobic exercise, (3) team sports, (4) individual and dual sports, (5) outdoor pursuits, (6) dance, and (7) recreational games.  Ongoing assessment includes both written and performance-based skill evaluations.  Furthermore, this course is available to students with special mental, physical, sensory, or neurological problems.  *A medical referral form must be completed and approved by the teacher or principal for students with special needs.

Fulfills part of the Physical Education requirement for all diplomas

Grade Level: 9-12
Course #:  3544
Length:  1 Semester
Credit(s): One
Diploma:  General, Core 40, Academic Honors, Technical Honors
*Course required to meet state graduation requirements

Prerequisite: Physical Education I. 

Physical Education II emphasizes a personal commitment to lifetime activity and fitness for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.  This coeducational program provides students with opportunities to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness and to increase their knowledge of fitness concepts in the following different movement forms: (1) health-related fitness activities, (2) aerobic exercise, (3) team sports, (4) individual and dual sports, (5) outdoor pursuits, (6) dance, and (7) recreational games.  Ongoing assessment includes both written and performance-based skill evaluations.  Furthermore, this course is available to students with special mental, physical, sensory, or neurological problems.  *A medical referral form must be completed and approved by the teacher or principal for students with special needs. 

Fulfills part of the Physical Education requirement for all diplomas