Courses for Students

This course will help the student understand the importance of making decisions that will affect his or her physical, emotional, mental and social health. This course will provide students with the knowledge and resources they will need to make responsible informed decisions about their health. Students will have an opportunity to evaluate their own values, opinions and attitudes about health.

Students who want to be fit but don’t know where to start are invited to join their virtual classmates in exploring and understanding fitness and health. Students determine current personal fitness levels and learn to improve those levels. Students also learn safety rules for exercise, how to create equipment from household items, how different activities target different body parts, how to set and reach a goal, and qualities of sportsmanship. Students keep a log of physical fitness activities while exploring topics that include diversity in sports, nutrition, peer pressure, and making good choices. Each PE project leads to improved student understanding of personal skills and the environments in which activities are played.

Get ready to move and learn what makes you move! You’re ready to take some big steps from the playgrounds of elementary school to embarking on your own personal fitness journey in this course. As you discover ways to stay physically fit—and why that’s so important—you’ll learn that fitness has different health and skill components and how those work. Take a deep dive into matters of the heart when you learn about target heart rate and zones and how those help you stay fit, too. As you progress, get ready for some big goals—how to set them, meet them, and keep reaching past them! You’ll also discover that fitness is more than muscle when we all follow the rules and treat each other fairly. All set? Let’s get moving!