Personal Fitness
Course Description:
Personal Fitness will provide students the opportunity to experience a wide variety of fitness activities and knowledge needed to maintain healthy level of fitness throughout their lifetime. An important priority of this course is to help students adapt fitness concepts into their lifestyles which include muscular strength and endurance, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility. Students will be asked to demonstrate the principles and guidelines that must be followed in order to maintain a healthy physical lifestyle. In addition, students will learn the importance of good sportsmanship and be able to work in a team successfully.
Standards:
Physical education provides the opportunity for a student to become physically educated.
The physically educated person is one who has learned motor and self-management skills necessary to perform a variety of physical activities, knows the implication of and the benefits of physical fitness, participates regularly in physical activity, and understands that all are intimately related to an individual’s health, physical, and social well-being.
Fitness for Lifetime
Demonstrate knowledge of a physically active lifestyle.
PE.HS.FL.01 Participate in physical activities and evaluate personal factors that impact participation.
PE.HS.FL02 Through physical activity, understand ways in which personal characteristics, performance styles, and activity preferences will change over a life span.
Understand the meaning of physical fitness and how personal fitness can be improved and maintained using a health-related fitness assessment as one tool for measuring.
PE.HS.FL.03 Assess and analyze personal health related status.
PE.HS.FL.04 Independently design a written personal fitness and activity program which incorporates related physical fitness components and principles (overload, progression, specificity, and individuality).
Self-Management and Social Behavior
Understand appropriate and positive behavior management (social skills) and respect for all individual differences, including gender, ethnicity, and physical ability during physical activity.
PE.HS.SM.01 Analyze and apply rules, procedures, and etiquette that are safe and effective for specific activities/situations.
PE.HS.SM.02 Apply conflict resolution strategies in appropriate ways and analyze potential consequences when confronted with unsportsmanlike behavior.
Grading:
Grades will be based on daily participation, assignments, tests, attitude and effort. Grades will not be weighted for those who are more athletically inclined in a certain sport or activity. The student is asked to try their best and to be willing to improve on the skills being taught.
The student’s physical education grade will be based on a daily point system & personal best effort. There will be a total of 10 points possible per Monday and 20 points possible per block day. At the end of the semester, the total number of points earned will determine each student’s grade.
A – 90-100% Great attitude, high participation, outstanding effort, respectful
B – 80-89%
C – 70-79%
D – 60-69%
F – Below 60%
The following infractions will result in a loss of daily points:
· Not Dressing Down
· Non Participation
· Behavior /Negative Attitude – talking out of turn, language, put downs, non-effort
· Tardy
· Absences
· Abuse of equipment
· Disobeying behavioral guidelines and expectations will result in the loss of points based upon the professional discretion of the teacher.
Students have the opportunity to make up a missed day of class if and ONLY if the absence is excused. Make-ups are not to be used as an excuse to miss class however. Students will need to write one paper for a missed Monday class and two papers for a missed block day class. Student will be allowed six (6) PE Make Ups per 18-weeks/semester. Report is to be remitted to your Instructor once completed.
Course Scope and Sequence:
Unit 1 – Course Introduction & 5210 Challenge
Unit 2 – Proper Warm Up, Cool Downs, Soccer
Unit 3 – Fitness Testing
Unit 4 – Flag Football/Muscular Strength
Unit 5 – Flag Football/Muscular Strength
Unit 6 –5210 Challenge/Muscular Endurance
Unit 7 – Fitness Testing
Unit 8 – Basketball/
Cardiovascular Endurance
Unit 9-5210 Challenge & Target Heart Rate
Unit 10-Volleyball/Fitness Plans
Unit 11-Volleyball/Goal Setting
Unit 12-Fitness Test
Unit 13-Final Projects
*Sports and games vary each semester based on outdoor weather and student level of engagement. (Other examples include: Ultimate Frisbee, Frisbee Golf, Basketball, Lacrosse, Soccer, Field Hockey, Volleyball, Spike Ball, Team Handball, etc)
Course Materials:
Students need to come to class prepared for physical activity. This means shorts or sweats, t-shirt & tennis shoes. In order to secure belongings, students need to bring a combination lock for the locker room. Students may want additional items depending on the weather (sweat shirt, extra socks, sun screen, hat, etc.)
Modifications/Accommodations:
Medical Conditions/Injuries
If you have a medical condition that prohibits you from fully participating in daily activities, you need to bring a doctor’s note stating your condition as to why you cannot participate. You will however be required to dress down and do what you can to the best of your ability. If you have a minor injury that prohibits you from fully participating in daily activities, a doctor’s note is required to excuse you from participating. NO PARENT/GUARDIAN NOTES WILL BE ACCEPTED!
Core Course Grade requirement:
Colleges in the Oregon University System (and many other colleges and universities) will not accept any grade lower than a C in an approved college preparatory course for the purposes of meeting their admissions requirements. A grade of a D will receive high school credit but will not count for college admissions standards.
Personal Fitness is a required Physical Education Course students need to complete as freshmen prior to taking any other Physical Education classes. Students will need to complete one additional Physical Education class prior to graduation.