Open
1 segment / 18 weeks
In this Personal Fitness course, students are required to participate in weekly cardiovascular, flexibility and strength and endurance activities. Students who are unable to participate in such physical exercises will be unable to complete the requirements of this course.
Module 1: Welcome Center
Module 2: Rec Center
Module 3: Teen Center
Module 4: Health Club
Module 5: Wellville Gym
Module 6: Wellville Cafe
Module 7: Body Shop
Module 8: Medical Center
Health Coach
Open
3-4 Weeks
Application of Movement: Students will demonstrate an understanding of the application of movement by explaining proper movement techniques associated with exercises addressing the health and performance elements of fitness.
You are a health coach, and you have been hired by a business to help improve employee wellness. You have been asked to create a brochure to address a specific health condition and an injury that could occur at the workplace. In your brochure, you will be providing guidance to the employees at the business on how to prevent the specific condition and injury.
Personal Trainer
Open
3-4 Weeks
Fitness Responsibility: Students will demonstrate an understanding of Fitness Assessments by incorporating personal and social behaviors into their fitness goals and plans.
You are a personal trainer, and you have two new clients that have hired you to help them improve their overall healthy lifestyle.
As their personal trainer, you will create a custom fitness program that is tailored to the client’s current abilities and fitness levels. This program will be designed to help your clients achieve physical competence by engaging in interactive activities that promote a healthy lifestyle in a safe and effective way.
Strength and Conditioning Coach
Open
3-4 Weeks
Movement Concepts: Students will demonstrate an understanding of movement concepts by connecting movement concepts to tactics for improved performance during a physical activity.
You are a strength and conditioning coach, and you are making a preseason and postseason training plan for an athlete. The plans are designed to improve physical ability and to increase the performance of athletes. You will test the exercises in the plans you make and log your observations in order to determine how effective the plans will be. The plans will describe the movement concepts and tactics that are involved with exercises that an athlete will need to focus on during preseason and postseason. You will assign the plan to an athlete and review it with them.
Fitness Instructor
Open
3-4 Weeks
Movement Skills: Students will demonstrate an understanding of movement skills by connecting movement skills to movement patterns and the physical and cognitive benefits of movement.
You are a fitness instructor at a gym. The gym currently offers: kickboxing, spinning, aerobics, boxing, strength training, and would like to add a new class that focuses on a new set of skills and movement patterns to expand their clientele, such as pilates, pound, ropes, or barre. You have been asked to design a class that is accessible to a variety of fitness levels to attract new members. You will present your proposed new class to the owners of the gym, and upon their approval, you will lead this class.
Open
Experiences allow students to demonstrate mastery of competencies through various real-world or hands-on learning opportunities, such as travel, service learning, independent study, internships or entrepreneurship. During an experience, students elect to meet all or some of the competencies in a particular competency group (ie. English 1, Economics, Biology, …), as an alternative to taking the course. Each experience is customized to the student’s opportunity. The student works with a VLACS instructor to determine deliverables that demonstrate mastery of the competencies and secures an outside expert to enrich the experience.
In Experiences students will:
By signing up for an independent study, you will be able to direct your own learning, identifying what you want to learn and how you will demonstrate that you have mastered your learning objectives.
Internships allow you to gain professional experience, make connections, and become familiar with a career while working on site with mentors and professionals in a career of your interest.
While travel can be a great experience for learning life lessons, it is also an excellent way to acquire the knowledge and skills that allow you to demonstrate mastery in a variety of competencies. The world is a classroom and travel experiences will connect your real-world experiences to the learning that you seek.
In-Service Learning, you collaborate with members of your community to address issues to improve your community. You will connect your service with discipline-specific content so that learning can take place through problem solving and collaboration.
Starting your own business is a great way to learn. This type of experience allows you to engage in an entrepreneurial experience and receive credit for competencies you master through this experience.
Recommended for grades 9-12.
We offer regular online open house webinars where VLACS staff members provide parents and students with an overview of our programs and answer questions about online learning.