COURSE TITLE:  PEF 301/ Personal Fitness & PEL 301/ Lifetime Sports

 

INSTRUCTOR:  Penny Gibson

ROOMS:  3.7 (3RD Floor/ red pod) & Gym

E-Mail:  Penny_Gibson@eu.odedodea.edu

 

 

Course Description:

 

Personal Fitness and Lifetime Sports are both semester long courses required for graduation.  Personal Fitness is primarily taught in the classroom with an emphasis on understanding the concept of physical fitness as it relates to the total health and well being of the student.  Lifetime Sports reinforces the concepts learned in Personal Fitness by allowing students to participate in activities that can help maintain fitness throughout life.

               

 

Course Goals/ Objectives:

 

Personal Fitness is designed to enable students in grades nine through twelve to develop the conceptual knowledge and attitudes necessary to make wise personal fitness decisions.  Developmentally appropriate concepts of movement, physical fitness, and personal and social development are included in this course.  Students apply appropriate information and problem solving that will help them achieve an individual, optimal level of fitness and help them stay fit for a lifetime.  The course focuses on the importance of fitness, personal fitness needs, self-assessment and exercise safety.

Lifetime Sports will enable students to develop the movement skills, conceptual knowledge, and attitudes for enjoyable sports participation throughout life.  The focus in on teaching and improving the specialized motor skills and tactical knowledge unique to a variety of lifetime sports activities.

 

 

Major Instructional Activities: 

 

Instruction is activity-based and designed to further develop students’ interest in personal lifelong physical activity and fitness.  Students participate in research, discussions, physical fitness assessments and other physical activities.  Applications of concepts, thinking skills, and positive attitudes towards health-related and skill-related physical fitness are featured.  Students access information and obtain and analyze data to set goals and plan for their own personal fitness program.

 

 

Course Grading/Assessment: 

 

Multiple assessment strategies are used to enable students to develop their health-related knowledge, attitudes, and skills. These include written classwork, tests, group discussions and debates, educational games, and group activities.

 

Tests/Quizzes                       30%

Physical Activity                 25%

Classwork/Homework         25%

Projects                                  20%

Total                                       100%

 

A final exam will be worth 20% of the student’s semester grade.

 

 

 

Textbook and Student Resources:  Personal Fitness:  Looking Good – Feeling Good, Williams, Charles S.  The book is accompanied by a video series and a student activity handbook.

 

Student Supplies:  3 ring binder with dividers, pencils, pens, lock and workout clothes.

Each student is expected to bring the required materials to every class.

 

Scope and Sequence:  2004/2005

 

                Looking Good-Feeling Good

                Components of Fitness

                Goal Setting for Teenagers

                Guidelines for Exercise

                Principles of Training

                Flexibility

Cardiovascular Fitness

                Muscular Fitness

                Nutrition

                Body Composition and Weight Control

                Stress

                Consumer Issues

                Evaluation of Activities

                Designing Your Own Program

 

 

Homework / Make-up work Policy:

 

Students are expected to have their work complete before entering the classroom.  Work should be completed on regular paper in blue or black pen and labeled with first and last name as well as period number.  Answers should be thought out, age appropriate and written in complete sentences.  The 6+1 Trait model will be used to assess writing skills. Late work will receive a penalty of 10% off for each school day that it is late. 

 

Continuous School Progress:

 

Success of all students requires that the 6 + 1 Trait become a consistent and integral component of each course taught at AFNORTH International Middle/High School.  In Health class, students will be graded on the Conventions trait.  Conventions are the mechanical correctness of the piece–spelling, grammar and usage, paragraphing (indenting at the appropriate spots), use of capitals, and punctuation. To assess a piece for convention, ask yourself: "How much work would a copy editor need to do to prepare the piece for publication?"