Lifetime Fitness

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.