Physical Focus is a middle school curriculum designed to provide adolescents with the knowledge and skills to enjoy a physically active, healthy lifestyle. The curriculum consists of three two-week segments from each focus area. Students receive two weeks of instruction in each of the three areas every six weeks. The three focus areas are Healthy Heart, Team Power, and Life Adventures. Elements of the health education curriculum are integrated into this course. The health curriculum in this course includes nutrition, abstinence-based curriculum for disease prevention, and personal relationships.
This course provides a hands-on experience in developing individual personal fitness that stimulate heart and lung activity for a long enough period of time to produce beneficial changes in the body. Exercise and conditioning may include: jogging, weightlifting, aerobics and other general conditioning activities.