.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5250
Course’s essential questions or focus: Can you challenge yourself to join us as an important and contributing part of the teamwork needed to safely gain self-confidence, gain multi-outdoor-sports skill sets, and learn how to best plan trips? To learn to safely explore by kayak, bike, hiking, or climbing with others.
A team-taught course integrating the natural sciences with physical education.
This quarter-long physical education course will work to give you the knowledge needed to safely engage in outdoor activities as well as focus on sea kayaking, rock climbing, and cycling skills. Join us to learn, or to enhance your existing outdoor skills through many hands-on outdoor experiences. During this quarter you will go on mini-field trips as well as a day-long adventure, touring the coast of Maine, in a sea kayak.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5251
Course’s essential questions or focus: Can you challenge yourself to join us as an important and contributing part of the teamwork needed to safely gain self-confidence, gain multi-outdoor-Winter-sports skill sets, and learn how to best plan trips? To safely Nordic ski, snowshoe, ski/board, or climb with others.
This quarter-long adventure physical education course will work to give you the knowledge needed to safely engage in outdoor activities with a focus on winter adventure and rock climbing skills. Join us to learn, or to enhance your existing outdoor skills through many hands-on outdoor experiences. During this quarter, you will go on mini field trips as well as a daylong adventure.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 11, 12
Adventure Physical Education
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5276
Course’s essential questions or focus: How can I move effectively and efficiently using outdoor skills?
This course is designed for all skill levels, offering students the opportunities to enjoy the Maine outdoors through archery, map & compass, geocaching, hiking, outdoor survival (bushcraft), and more. Come learn how to confidently navigate safely in the outdoors. Students will learn how to organize field trips and collaborate with peers & community members to be successful. Through the efforts of the National Archery in the Schools Program, students will be learning on state-of-the-art equipment from local vendors. Field trips along the Pleasant River and other Maine destinations will be designed to provide a final assessment of student learning. Join us in the pursuit of achieving lifelong wellness.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
Fall or Spring (Q1/Q4)
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5261
Course’s essential questions or focus: How can I move effectively and efficiently using outdoor skills?
This is a course designed for all skill levels that will offer students the opportunity to enjoy the Maine outdoors through fishing.
Learn the basics of spin-casting & fly casting, fly tying, kayak fishing, etc. Students will learn how to organize a fishing trip and collaborate with peers & community members to be successful. Through the efforts of the Future Fisherman Foundation, students will learn about state-of-the-art equipment from local vendors. Field trips along the Pleasant River and other Maine destinations will be designed to provide a final assessment of student learning. Join us in the pursuit of achieving lifelong wellness.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 11, 12 (10th grade signature from instructor required)
Winter (Q3)
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5261
Course’s essential questions or focus: How can I move effectively and efficiently using outdoor skills?
This course is designed for all skill levels, offering students the opportunity to enjoy the Maine outdoors through ice fishing.
Learn the basics of ice fishing and skills to help you thrive outdoors. Students will learn how to organize a fishing trip and collaborate with peers & community members to be successful. Through the efforts of the Future Fisherman Foundation, students will learn about state-of-the-art equipment from local vendors. Field trips to local waterways will be scheduled throughout the quarter. Maine destinations will be designed to provide a final assessment of student learning. Join us in the pursuit of achieving lifelong wellness.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 11, 12 (10th grade signature from instructor required)
.25 credits
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5264
Course’s essential questions or focus: How do movement and culture exist in physical education?
Students will learn the basic waltz, fox-trot, cha-cha, jitterbug, swing, polka, disco, and numerous other dances. Students are expected to perform as their final.
Prerequisite: Wellness l
Grades 10, 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5268
Course’s essential questions or focus: How can competitive games maintain wellness?
Students will be taught the rules and regulations of each sport. Students will also learn to score and referee each event and participate in either a competitive and/or recreational setting.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5286
Course’s essential questions or focus: How do I create a personalized fitness program? How can I use strength and cardio equipment to maintain wellness?
Let us set up a fitness program that fits your individual needs! This course will be for the student interested in creating a personalized fitness program. Whether you want to focus on strength & development or getting in your daily cardio; there is something for everyone
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5253
Course’s essential questions or focus: How can I use strength and cardio equipment to create a personalized program that allows for life-long wellness?
If you are craving more from the previous class; then it’s time to progress and get the workout you deserve.
Prerequisite: Fitness & Development I and Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5277
Course’s essential questions or focus: Can you envision yourself developing or gaining self-confidence, physical, and mental strength through climbing? Come develop climbing skills and be an important and contributing part of the teamwork needed to safely rock climb.
Students will learn the basic skills needed to safely rock climb. Come learn the basics of knot tying, route setting, rappelling, rope management, belaying, and top-rope climbing to then master the skills needed to safely experience the vertical challenges of rock climbing.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5292
Course’s essential questions or focus: Are you up to joining us to work as a team to continue to discover why you climb, while you progress your holistic climbing capacity, heavily increase your climbing skill-set and technique, design routes, and also problem-solve to ascend our climbing wall's vertical puzzles?
“Somewhere between the bottom of the climb and the summit is the answer to the mystery of why we climb” - Greg Child
This elective is for students who want to actively participate and progress in the sport of climbing, while safely engaging with their classmates. Students will use their skills mastered on our rock wall from their time in Rock Climbing 101, to then safely engage with their classmates to take their climbing skills to the next level. Join the class to learn to tie several knots, rappel, sport-lead climb, build climbing anchors, design climbing routes for others, and learn to plan out climbing trips.
Prerequisite: Rock Climbing 101 and Wellness I
Grades 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5290
Course’s essential questions or focus: Let us set up a weight training program for your individual needs! This course will be for the students interested in serious weight training.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
.5 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5210
Course’s essential questions or focus: Why is it important to be physically fit and how can we stay fit?
This course teaches skills in lifetime and team sports, as well as a fitness program that emphasizes cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, muscular strength/endurance, and body composition. If for medical reasons, a student’s participation is questioned, a doctor’s certificate must be presented to the school nurse. An appropriate program will be developed with the Physical Education teacher or the student will be rescheduled for a later time.
Prerequisite: None
Grades 9, 10, 11
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5280
Course’s essential questions or focus: What can you do to ensure lifelong wellness by moving with a specific purpose?
Do you want to have control over your path to Wellness? Instructors will provide multiple opportunities for students to engage in activities that interest them the most. Want more competition in your life? Choose the competitive games unit. Want to become more fit? Choose from several fitness opportunities. Have an interest in adventure programming? There’s something there for you too!
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5257
Course’s essential questions or focus: What are the benefits of an ongoing yoga practice? How does yoga provide stress relief for the mind and body? How does yoga develop one’s strength, flexibility, balance, and coordination?
Students will be taught different yoga sequences to address different body parts. Using the poses (asana) and breathing (prana) techniques students will learn healthy ways to manage stress in their lives and gain strength and flexibility at the same time! Meditation and mindfulness skills will also be introduced to manage stress.
Prerequisite: Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
.25 CREDITS
Credit Area: Physical Education
Course Number: 5258
Course’s essential questions or focus: What is the relationship between yoga and one’s emotional and physical wellbeing?
Using the poses (asana) and breathing (prana) techniques students have learned in Yoga 1, students will learn more advanced poses and pranayama (breathwork). Additionally, students in Yoga 2 will design and teach simple yoga sequences to the class. As stressed in Yoga 1, students will learn healthy ways to manage stress in their lives and gain strength and flexibility at the same time. Meditation and mindfulness skills will also be used to manage stress.
Prerequisite: Yoga l and Wellness I
Grades 10, 11, 12
.5 CREDITS
Credit Area: Health
Course Number: 5010
Course’s essential questions or focus: How do I comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention while analyzing influences? What are health-enhancing behaviors and how can I promote them?
In Health Education, students are assessed on Health Education Content/MLR. The Health Content Areas are Personal Health, Nutritional Health, Prevention and Control of Diseases and Disorders, Growth and Development, Substance Abuse and Prevention, Safety and Accident Prevention, and Community Health. Content focus is on stress & mindfulness, communication & conflict resolution, physical and emotional health, nutrition, analyzing influences, substance use, and sexual health.
Prerequisite: None
Grades 9, 10, 11, 12
.5 CREDITS
Credit Area: Health
Course Number: 5000
Course’s essential questions or focus: How do experiential activities empower personal wellness? Emphasis is placed on ownership of one’s health and choices.
Students will:
Comprehend concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention to enhance health.
Analyze factors that influence health behaviors.
Demonstrate the ability to access valid services and products that enhance health.
Use interpersonal skills to enhance health and avoid or reduce health risks.
Practice health-enhancing behaviors and avoid or reduce risk.
Demonstrate the ability to advocate for personal, family, and community health.
Health Education II is a project-oriented semester course. Topics will include personal choices and impact, assertive communication, evaluation to improve quality of life, and embracing diversity. Content-specific lessons on nutritional health, mental health, adolescence growth and development, family life, safety, and accident prevention.
Prerequisite: Health I
Grades 11, 12
LIFE OUTSIDE OF HIGH SCHOOL
.5 CREDITS
Credit Area: Health
Course Number: 5013
Course’s essential questions or focus: What skills support independent living? How do I develop my passion into a career? What does it mean to be a savvy consumer?
Students will explore the following topics while creating a LIFE portfolio: Self-Management & Stress, Cooking & the Importance of Nutrition, Household survival skills, Relationships & the Dynamics of Roommates, First Aid & Community Health, Budgeting & Investments, and Valid/Reliable
Prerequisite: Health I
Grades 10, 11, 12