HEALTH EDUCATION
A required freshmen course providing the basis for continued
methods of developing knowledge, concepts, skills,
behaviors, and attitudes related to student health and
well-being. This course includes the major content areas in
a planned, sequential, comprehensive, health education
curriculum as expressed in the Indiana Health Education
Proficiency Guide: (1) Growth and Development, (2) Mental
and Emotional Health; (3) Community and
Environmental Health; (4) Nutrition; (5) Family Life
Education; (6) Consumer Health; (7) Personal Health; (8)
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Education; (9) Intentional
and Unintentional Injury.; and (10) Health Promotion and
Disease Prevention.
Students are provided with opportunities to explore the
effect of health behaviors on an individual’s quality of
life. This course assists students in understanding that
health is a lifetime commitment by analyzing individual risk
factors and health decisions that promote health and prevent
disease. Students are also encouraged to assume individual
responsibility for becoming competent health consumers. A
variety of instructional strategies, including technology,
are used to further develop health literacy.
Course Length: Semester
Weight Value: 0
Credits: 1
Grade Level:
9
Diploma:
Core 40, Honors
Prerequisites:
None
SECONDARY PHYSICAL EDUCATION I – 9th
and 10th
grades
Secondary Physical Education continues the emphasis on
health related fitness and developing the skills and habits
necessary for a lifetime of activity. This program includes
a skill development and the application of rules and
strategies of complex difficulty in at least three of the
following different movement forms: (1) health-related
fitness activities (cardio respiratory endurance, muscular
strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition),
(2) aerobic exercise, (3) team sports, (4) individual and
dual sports, (5) outdoor pursuits, (6) self-defense, (7)
dance, and (8) recreational games. Ongoing assessment
includes both written and performance-based skill
evaluations, Activities will be adapted for special needs
students.
Course Length: Semester
Weight
Value: 0
Credits: 1
Grade Level:
9,10
Diploma:
Core 40, Honors
Prerequisites:
None
ELECTIVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION (CONDITIONING)
Students will be instructed in the following activities:
weight lifting, team sports, and individual sports.
Students will design a weight program tailored to their
specific needs. Students will lift weights on a regular
basis and test periodically to note progress.
Course Length: Semester
Weight
Value: 0
Credits:
.5
Grade Level:
11,12
Diploma: Basic
Prerequisites:
Physical Education I & II
