Page 68 - PHS POS 2021-22

Return to ​Table of Contents
PDLA Lifetime Fitness 2 2902 9-12 2 .5
The online P.E. course picks up with the second portion of the PDLA Lifetime Fitness part A course. In this course, students will continue a weekly exercise routine through the completion of a weekly Fitness Log. Students will explore fitness topics such as flexibility, nutrition, body composition, skills for athletic success, stress management, designing a personal fitness plan, and consuming wisely. Personal fitness assessments encourage students to design a fitness program to meet their individual fitness goals.
● Prerequisite: PDLA Lifetime Fitness 1.
● Students that earned credit for PDLA P.E. (Lifetime Fitness) during the 20-21 school year cannot take PDLA
Lifetime Fitness 1 or 2
Health 901 9 2 .5
Health classes meet two times per six day cycle. Through this course, students learn to evaluate and improve their six aspects of health. Those aspects include physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, environmental, and social health habits. Attention is placed on deficient diet, activity habits, and substance abuse and its correlation with destruction of body systems, while practical applications within exercise science, nutrition, and kinesiology are explored to aid in the enhancement of quality and quantity of life. Additionally, students examine and employ life saving strategies such as concepts of CPR, AED, and first aid, Stop the Bleed Training, proper use of PPE. Furthermore, the changes in development, and function of body systems are discussed in terms of maturation, as students develop a full understanding of adolescent growth and puberty.
Click here for video description
PDLA Health (Healthy Living) 2900 9-12 1 .5
Encouraging students to make responsible, respectful, informed, and capable decisions about topics that affect the well-being of themselves and others, this course is a one-semester course that provides students with comprehensive information they can use to develop healthy attitudes and behavior patterns. Designed for high school students, this informative and engaging course encourages students to recognize that they have the power to choose healthy behaviors to reduce risks.
Personal Fitness 907 10-12 1 .5
This physical education ​course​ is designed for students who are interested in making a significant commitment to their physical fitness. With a focus on fitness​, this course places more of an elevated attention on the detailed aspects of personal fitness than a traditional physical education course.​ This course ultimately aims to enhance habitual fitness tendencies as students strive to understand and strengthen components of fitness. Such components include cardiorespiratory fitness, flexibility, muscular strength, muscular endurance, and body composition.
Each class, ​students can expect to challenge themselves utilizing a variety of modalities through precise activities adhering to the National Academy of Sports Medicine’s (NASM) Optimum Performance Training (OPT) Model and the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s (NSCA) Performance Pyramid. With course instructors NASM and NSCA certified, each activity is meticulously designed to target specified components of physical fitness individualized to the student . As students are exposed to fitness techniques within the aforementioned methods, students will ultimately develop their own fitness program that is both functional and specific to their needs. Students interested in a career within the fitness and wellness industry are encouraged to take this course.
Click here for video description
Exceptionally Prepared for Success ​ ​67