Name
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Length
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Prerequisite
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Description
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|
Semester |
None |
Instruction, drills, and competition in traditional sports: football soccer, cardioball, basketball, volleyball, and floor hockey. |
| Team Sports 2 |
Semester |
Team Sports1/ Permission |
Instruction, drills, and competition in seasonal sports: volleyball, basketball, track, softball, floor hockey, cardioball, team handball, flag football, etc. |
| Lifetime Sports 1 |
Semester |
None |
Instruction and experience in a variety of lifetime leisure sports. Sports may include: frisbee, pickleball, tennis, golf, disc golf, badminton, table tennis, volleyball. Course may not be offered every semester unless there is sufficient enrollment. |
| Lifetime Sports 2 |
Semester |
Lifetime Sports 1/ Permission |
Competition and advanced techniques for students who have completed Lifetime Sports 1. |
| Instructional Swim |
Semester |
None |
For students from beginner to advanced. This course is designed to offer opportunities for stroke refinement, analysis and practice, fitness swimming, water games, synchronized swimming, diving and other water related activities based on need. |
| Life Guarding |
Semester |
500 yd swim, submerge to a depth of 13 ft and retrieve a 10 lb object, tread water two minutes using legs only. Minimum age 15 yrs. |
This course will prepare lifeguard candidates to recognize emergencies, respond quickly and effectively to emergencies, and prevent drowning and other incidents. This course also teaches other skills individuals need to become a professional lifeguard. Upon completion of this course participants will receive American Red Cross Lifeguard Training, Fist Aid, and CPR certification |
| Water Safety Instructor |
Semester |
Lifeguarding Certificate, student must be 17 years old or older before the class ends |
Preparation fro instruction in all phases of swimming. American Red Cross WSI certificate is conferred upon successful completion of course. |
| Adaptive Physical Education |
Semester |
None |
The physical education activities are designed for special needs students. |
| *Personal Fitness 1 |
Semester |
None |
This required course involves instruction and practice in planning, implementing and evaluating an individualized fitness program. The course will focus on understanding the basic concepts of flexibility, cardio-vascular and muscular endurance and strength through instruction and practice. The emphasis of this course will be on lifetimes health related fitness. |
| Personal Fitness 2 |
Semester |
Personal Fitness 1 |
A continuation of Personal Fitness 1. This is a more advanced program of physical training for the student seeking significant progress in strength, quickness, cardio-vascular efficiency, and flexibility. |
| Gymnastics 1 |
Semester |
None |
There is fundamental instruction in floor exercise, tumbling, sidehorse, parallel bars, high bar, vaulting, rings, balance beam and uneven bars. Course may not be offered every semester unless there is sufficient enrollment |
| Gymnastics 2 |
Semester |
Gymnastics 1 |
There is a progression to harder stunts on the apparatus and mats with emphasis upon composition of routines and performing compulsory routines. Instruction in judging techniques for Olympic events may be included. This course may be repeated for credit. |
| Aerobic Dance |
Semester |
None |
For students from beginner to advanced. A variety of routines with emphasis on low impact, high impact, step ands slide aerobics. Special emphasis on muscle toning and physical conditioning. |
| Physical Education Assistant |
Semester |
Recommendation of Department Chair |
For upper classmen interested in the field. Serve as teacher's aid in aquatics (Senior Lifeguarding or WSI required) or other courses. Assist in instruction, officiating, lifeguarding, care of equipment and facilities, clerical duties. Students must have completed a minimum of three semesters in physical education and have the recommendation of the Department Chair in order to be eligible. |
| Sports Medicine 1 |
Semester |
None |
This course provides knowledge and instruction of health occupations in sports. Theory and practical laboratory experiences are offered in the mechanics of sports injuries and preventive/protective measures. Course may not be offered every semester unless there is sufficient enrollment. |
| Sports Medicine 2 |
Semester |
Sports Medicine 1 and teacher recommendation |
The evaluation of fitness traits an prescriptions, knowledge of nutrition, sports psychology, ergogenic aids, biomechanics, and the diagnosis, treatment, and rehabilitation of sport related injuries. |
| Physical Education |
Independent Study |
Approval of Department Chair. The student must have completed one semester of physical education prior to the independent study |
Open to students whose personal or academic circumstances make it extremely difficult to meet the two semester physical education requirement during the regular school day. The Department Chair judges the student's eligibility for the program. Physical education department accepts or rejects the student's project proposals. Credit awarded upon successful completion of contracted project involving a school activity plus appropriate supplementary work. |
| Basketball and Conditioning |
Semester |
None |
For students from beginner to advanced. This course involves instruction and practice of fundamentals and techniques. Instruction and practice of conditioning activities, drills, officiating concepts, rules of the game, and competition. |
| Weightlifting and Conditioning |
Semester |
None |
For students from beginner to advanced. This course is designed to offer opportunities for the student seeking significant progress in strength, quickness, cardiovascular efficiency, and flexibility. |
