Legend:
🎓 fulfills a specific COURSE graduation requirement
⭐ Honors course
🍎 Pre-requisite course(s) must be completed first
S1: Semester 1 Only
S2: Semester 2 Only
Sem: Semester course offered semester 1 or semester 2
FY: Full Year Course
Department Chair: Nick Cosentino
dcosentino@aacps.org
NOTE: Dance courses meet the FINE ARTS graduation requirement
Students beginning their high school Physical Education experience will be introduced to the components of fitness and shown the relationship of physical fitness to total well-being. Students will be afforded the opportunity to participate in a variety of activities which can be pursued during high school and throughout their lifetime
This course is designed for students to learn and demonstrate health skills necessary to promote personal, family and community health and wellness. These health skills include analyzing influences on health behaviors, accessing valid information, interpersonal communication, decision making, goal setting and practicing health enhancing behaviors.
This course is designed as a continuation of Health A and builds upon many of the topics covered. Students to learn and demonstrate health skills necessary to promote personal, family and community health and wellness. These health skills include analyzing influences on health behaviors, accessing valid information, interpersonal communication, decision making, goal setting and practicing health enhancing behaviors. Prerequisite(s): Health A
This course serves as an introduction to the wellness activity of yoga and mindfulness. It will introduce a brief history of yoga, the anatomical benefits and the physical practice of yoga as it pertains to relaxation techniques, breathing exercises, specific postures, healthy diet, and positive thinking.
This course will guide the participant from Foundations of Stretch Your Wellness to the unique and varied pathways that yoga encompasses in Stretch and Flow. Participants will build upon their knowledge of the core yogic principles, components of mindfulness, and connections to how yoga and mindfulness promotes lifelong wellness through the analysis of specific yogic styles and unique mindfulness practices Promoting lifelong wellness comes to life in this empowering course! Prerequisite(s): Stretch Your Wellness
This course will allow students with and without disabilities to gain knowledge, experience, and skills in recreation sports, leisure activities, team/individual sports, and fitness in a collaborative and cooperative environment. All students will explore leadership characteristics, communication and listening skills, group work, and critical thinking skills in order to provide support in an inclusive environment.
Recreation sports courses provide students with knowledge, experience, and an opportunity to develop skills in more than one recreational sport (such as croquet, ultimate frisbee, bocce ball, table tennis, pickleball, etc.).
Lifetime Sports 2, 3, & 4 extends students’ experiences in leisure activities they can pursue throughout life and allows for skill refinement in multiple sport offerings. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Lifetime Sports
Students will learn rules, terms, historical background and basic skills for a variety of sports. The student will be able to understand team strategy in a competitive situation.
Students will improve their knowledge of game rules and basic skills through the refinement of participation and increased depth of knowledge in team strategies, coaching and officiating opportunities. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Team Sports
Students will learn rules, terms, historical background and basic skills of lacrosse. The student will be able to understand team strategy in a competitive situation.
Students will improve their knowledge of game rules and basic skills of lacrosse through the refinement of participation and increased depth of knowledge in team strategies, coaching and officiating opportunities. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Team Sports Lacrosse
Students will learn rules, terms, historical background and basic skills of basketball. The student will be able to understand team strategy in a competitive situation.
Students will improve their knowledge of game rules and basic skills of basketball through the refinement of participation and increased depth of knowledge in team strategies, coaching and officiating opportunities. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Team Sports Basketball
Students will learn rules, terms, historical background and basic skills of soccer. The student will be able to understand team strategy in a competitive situation.
Students will improve their knowledge of game rules and basic skills of soccer through the refinement of participation and increased depth of knowledge in team strategies, coaching and officiating opportunities. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Team Sports Soccer
Students will learn rules, terms, historical background and basic skills of volleyball. The student will be able to understand team strategy in a competitive situation.
Students will improve their knowledge of game rules and basic skills of volleyball through the refinement of participation and increased depth of knowledge in team strategies, coaching and officiating opportunities. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Team Sports Volleyball
This course is an introduction to the lifetime wellness activity of walking. Students are provided with an understanding of the importance exercise has on the pursuit of healthy living, while logging their effort.
This course extends the students’ opportunity for participating in the lifetime wellness activity of walking. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Walking Wellness
Students are engaged in an individualized program designed to incorporate physical fitness components and improve physical condition. Students will focus on technique rather than the amount of weight lifted.
Students will continue a systematic training program to refine techniques for strength and conditioning. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Strength and Conditioning
Students are engaged in an individualized program designed to incorporate physical fitness components and improve physical condition. Students will focus on technique rather than the amount of weight lifted.
Students will continue a systematic training program to refine techniques for strength and conditioning. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Strength and Conditioning for Females
Students will learn rules, terms, historical background and basic skills of football. The student will be able to understand team strategy in a competitive situation.
Students will improve their knowledge of game rules and basic skills of football through the refinement of participation and increased depth of knowledge in team strategies, coaching and officiating opportunities. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Team Sports Football
The course is designed for students interested in fields such as athletic training, physical therapy, medicine, fitness, exercise physiology, kinesiology, nutrition, and other sports-medicine related fields. This class includes classroom work as well as hands-on application in order to provide students with an avenue to explore these fields.
Foundations of Dance focuses on beginning levels of dance technique for a variety of dance styles alignment, dance history, physiology, theory, dancer health, dance careers, choreography, production, performance, and aesthetic criticism.
Dance 2, 3, & 4 emphasizes increased technical proficiency in dance styles progressing toward focus on dance as a performing art and means of communication. Students continue to increase knowledge of dance history, theory, choreography, physiology, dancer health, production, performance and aesthetic criticism. Prerequisite(s): Foundations of Dance or prior permission from the teacher.
Foundations of Dance for Athletes focuses on enhancing and refining athletic performance through dance techniques, conditioning, and training in the art of dance. Students will build knowledge of the five components of skill related physical fitness (agility, coordination, balance, power and speed), while also exploring the complementary Elements of Dance (body, energy, space and time).
Dance Company classes are performance emphasis and goal-based with students involved in research, choreography, and every aspect of dance production. Technical proficiency, academic knowledge, portfolio building, continued improvement and growth in dance, and public dance performances are expected. For students to receive honors credit, they must participate in the after school component of this course. Prerequisite: Audition REQUIRED
This course will allow students with and without disabilities to focus on beginning levels of dance technique and creative movement in a collaborative and cooperative environment. Students will explore leadership characteristics, communication and listening skills, group work, and critical thinking skills in order to provide support in an inclusive environment.
For more detailed information about course descriptions, please visit AACPS 2023-24 High School Program of Study