Health & PE |
High School
Course Information
Lifetime Fitness
Students in “Lifetime Fitness” will learn concepts and skills to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical activity and fitness. This course will help students recognize the benefits of physical activity and help set personal fitness goals. It is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and desire to pursue physical activity throughout life.
Subject: | Health & PE |
State Number: | 1 |
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Unit 1: Getting Started
- Analyze and apply technologies and social media as tools for supporting a healthy, active lifestyle.
- Analyze personal physical activity behaviors taking into account community offerings/local environment and pursue personal choices for improving healthy living.
- Demonstrate how to effectively ask for and effectively offer assistance to improve physical activity.
- Assess the barriers to achieving a personal goal to be physically active.
- Develop a personal plan to attain a personal goal of being physically active.
- Provide support and positively receive social interaction while engaged in physical activity.
Unit 2: Fitness Knowledge
- Adjust pacing to keep heart rate in the target zone, using available technology (e.g. pedometer, heart rate monitor), to self-monitor aerobic intensity.
- Accept differences based on personal characteristics and the idealized body images and elite performance levels portrayed in various media.
- Analyze the benefits and regularly participate in health enhancing physical activity.
- Choose an appropriate level of challenge to experience success and desire to participate in a self-selected physical activity.
Unit 3: Lifetime Activities
- Refine activity-specific movement skills in one or more lifetime activities (individual-performance activities, aquatics, net/wall games, or target games).
- Describe the speed/accuracy trade-off in throwing and striking skills.
- Analyze the components of skill-related fitness in relation to life and career goals, and design an appropriate fitness program for those goals.
- Examine moral and ethical conduct in specific competitive situations (e.g. intentional fouls, performance-enhancing substances, gambling, current events in sports).
- Identify potential safety issues in a physical activity setting.
- Choose an appropriate level of challenge to experience success and desire to participate in a self-selected physical activity.
- Select and regularly participate in physical activities or dance that meet the need for self-expression, personal meaning, and enjoyment.
Unit 4: Dance
- Demonstrate competency in a form of dance by choreographing a dance or by giving a performance.
- Compare similarities and differences in various movements and dance forms.
- Choose an appropriate level of challenge to experience success and desire to participate in a self-selected physical activity.
- Select and regularly participate in physical activities or dance that meet the need for self-expression, personal meeting, and enjoyment.
- Provide support and positively receive social interaction while engaged in physical activity.
Unit 5: Outdoor Pursuits
- Refine activity-specific movement skills in one or more lifetime activities (outdoor pursuits).
- Examine moral and ethical conduct in specific competitive situations (e.g. intentional fouls, performance-enhancing substances, gambling, current event in sport).
- Identify potential safety issues in a physical activity setting.
- Persuade and support others to make healthy and safe physical activity choices.
- Encourage school and community environments to promote the physical activity of others.
- Adapt physical activity health messages and communication techniques for a specific target audience.
- Persuade community leaders about the importance of ensuring there are sage, accessible, and affordable physical activity opportunities, products, and services to improve the health of oneself and others.
Unit 6: Reflect
- Analyze and apply technology and social media as tools for supporting a healthy, active lifestyle.
- Analyze personal physical activity behaviors taking into account community offerings/local environment and pursue personal choices for improving healthy living.
- Analyze the impact of life choices, economics, motivation, and accessibility on exercise adherence and participation in physical activity in college or career settings.
- Formulate an effective long-term personal health plan to achieve a personal goal to be physically done.