COURSE TITLE: PEF
301/ Personal Fitness & PEL 301/ Lifetime Sports
ROOMS: Blue Pod 1.4 & Gym
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.
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%
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.
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?"