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Status

Open

Estimated Completion Time

1 segment / 18 weeks

Overview

This course provides students with a basic understanding of fitness and nutrition. Students will learn about exercise safety, team and individual sports, nutrition, and the importance of staying active throughout their lifetime. Students conduct fitness assessments, set goals, develop their own fitness program, and participate in weekly physical activity.

Major Topics and Concepts

Course Introduction

Unit 1: Get Moving

  • 1.1 Getting Started
  • 1.2 Fitness Assessment
  • 1.3 Fitness Analysis

 

Unit 2: Exercise Programming

  • 2.1 Goal Setting
  • 2.2 Creating an Exercise Program
  • 2.3 Motivation and Cooperation

 

Unit 3: Exercise Technique

  • 3.1 Warm Up and Cool Down
  • 3.2 Exercise Technique & Proper Posture

 

Unit 4: Foundation of Fitness

  • 4.1 Components of Fitness
  • 4.2 Principles of Exercise
  • 4.3 Heart Rate and Intensity

 

Unit 5: Fitness

  • 5.1 What is Fitness?
  • 5.2 Skill vs. Health
  • 5.3 Benefits of Fitness

 

Unit 6: Post Assessment

  • 6.1 Post Assessment

Credits .5

Competencies

  • Fitness Routines
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of fitness routines by describing fitness routines, explaining fitness assessments, and explaining a personal fitness assessment analysis.
  • Exercise Programming
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of exercise programming by describing fitness goal setting, explaining exercise programs, and explaining exercise motivation and cooperation with others.
  • Exercise Techniques
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of exercise techniques by describing proper warm up and cool down, and explaining proper exercise techniques.
  • Foundations of Fitness
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of the foundations of fitness by describing the components of fitness, explaining the principles of exercise, and explaining target heart rate.
  • Physical Fitness
    Students will demonstrate an understanding of physical fitness by explaining physical fitness, differentiating between skill and health, and explaining benefits of fitness.

Pre-Requisites

Recommended for grades 6-8.

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