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Course Title: Health & Physical Education Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 109715 Term(s) Offered: Full Year
Prerequisite(s): None Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12
*recommen
ded for
Grade 9
Career Cluster(s): Education and Training Human Services
Health Science Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
Description: This course integrates the concepts of healthy decision making through classroom instruction in health
concepts and multiple physical fitness venues. The health aspect of this course emphasizes healthy habits that lead to
reduced illness and disease and encourage educated decision-making. Course topics include Physical, Social, & Mental
Health (The Health Triangle), Decision Making, First Aid, Drugs, Human Growth and Development, Human Sexuality
and Sexually Transmitted Infections, Nutrition, Physical Fitness, Sleep, Mental Health and Stress, and the Muscular and
Skeletal Systems. The physical education aspect of this course is tailored toward the development of a lifelong, positive
attitude toward physical activity, fitness, and recreation and the understanding of the relationship between a physically
active lifestyle and wellness. Students are instructed in a comprehensive curriculum in a co-educational setting that
includes aerobic, aquatic, fitness, lifetime, recreational, and team activities.

Course Title: Personal Fitness & Lifetime Activities Credit Value: 0.5
Course Number: 109800 Term(s) Offered: Full Year
Prerequisite(s): None Open to Grades: 10, 11, 12
Note(s): Class meets either A or B day.
Career Cluster(s): Education and Training Human Services
Health Science Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
Description: The purpose of this course is to enable students to acquire basic knowledge and skills in a variety of lifetime
activities. The students gain insight in strength training and personal fitness in addition to several lifetime activities. The
content may include but not be limited to Olympic strength training, developing a personal fitness program, golf, tennis,
pickle-ball, swimming, snorkel-mask-fin, fly fishing, archery, disc golf, badminton, and yoga. Students learn the rules,
skills and game strategies necessary for participation in each activity and an appreciation for these activities which in
turn will lead to lifelong pursuits of physical fitness and a physically active lifestyle.

Course Title: Applied Health & Physical Education Credit Value: 1.0
Course Number: 609710 Term(s) Offered: Full Year
Prerequisite(s): IEP Team Based Decision Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12,
12+
Career Cluster(s): Education and Training Human Services
Health Science Science, Technology, Engineering and
Mathematics
Description: Applied Health and Physical Education is a course for students whose IEP states they require health
instruction following alternate standards and/or the need for adapted physical education. In health, this course produces
health literate students through a curriculum that addresses physical, mental, emotional, and social dimensions of health.
Adapted PE is a sequentially planned, part time course with developmentally appropriate curriculum and instruction
that promotes lifelong physical activity. It helps students develop the knowledge, motor skills, self-management skills,
social skills, attitudes and confidence needed to adopt and maintain physical activity throughout their lives.

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