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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.
Competencies
Importance of Flexibility
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of flexibility by explaining flexibility goal setting, describing the flexibility principles of training, summarizing the role of joints in flexibility, and comparing flexibility activities.
Factors Contributing to Health and Fitness
Students will demonstrate an understanding of factors contributing to health and fitness by summarizing health risk factors, describing health- and skill-related components of fitness, and explaining injury prevention.
Stress Management
Students will demonstrate an understanding of stress management by describing assessment of stressors, explaining stress management strategies, and summarizing long- and short-term goals.
Cardiovascular Health
Students will demonstrate an understanding of cardiovascular health by explaining the cardiovascular system, describing cardiovascular disease prevention, and analyzing cardiovascular fitness.
The Benefits of Muscular Fitness
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the benefits of muscle fitness by explaining the benefits of weight training, describing weight-lifting exercises, and summarizing training principles.
Nutritional Health
Students will demonstrate an understanding of nutritional health by analyzing dietary guidelines, explaining daily intake guidelines, and summarizing the importance of water.
A Healthy Body
Students will demonstrate an understanding of a healthy body by explaining body composition, analyzing healthy weight management, and summarizing eating issues.
Major Topics and Concepts
Module 1: Welcome Center
- Tracking Your Stay
- Wellville Information Bureau
- Wellville City Limits
- Wellville Locals
- How Fit Are You?
- Flexibility Training Principles
- Bend and Stretch
- Stretching Safely
- Flexibility Workout Log
- Check Out
Module 2: Rec Center
- Tracking Your Stay
- Welcome to the Rec Center
- Health Risk Factors
- Health vs. Skill Related Exercise
- Warm Up/Cool Down
- Common Injuries
- Check Out
Module 3: Teen Center
- Tracking Your Stay
- Stress – A Fact of Life
- Stress and Coping Strategies
- Manage Your Stress
- Goal Setting
- You’re on Your Way
- Check Out
Module 4: Health Club
- Tracking Your Stay
- Cardiovascular Health
- Monitoring the Heart
- Cardiovascular Disease
- What is Cardiovascular Activity?
- Principles of Cardiovascular Fitness
- Cardiovascular Workout Log
- Check Out
Module 5: Wellville Gym
- Tracking Your Stay
- Muscular Fitness Training
- Safety Precautions
- Your Muscular Fitness Program
- Principles of Muscular Fitness
- Muscular Fitness Workout Log
- Check Out
Module 6: Wellville Cafe
- Tracking Your Stay
- Food and Its Relationship to Health
- Evaluate Your Personal Menu
- Food Labels and You
- Wellville Water
- Check Out
Module 7: Body Shop
- Tracking Your Stay
- How Are You Built?
- What’s Inside Your Skin?
- Input, Output and Calories
- Weight: Keeping it Under Control
- Eating and Weight Issues
- Check Out
Module 8: Medical Center
- Tracking Your Stay
- Final Fitness Test
- Varying Activities
- Final Workout Logs
- Final Exam
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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:
- Meet weekly with their instructor.
- Secure an outside expert.
- Plan the experience prior to completing it. Credit is not awarded for experiences completed prior to enrollment and completion of the planning process.
- For many experiences, spend time at a business or other location.
Types of Experiences:
Independent Study
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.
Internship
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.
Travel
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.
Service Learning
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.
Entrepreneurship
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.
Competencies
Importance of Flexibility
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the importance of flexibility by explaining flexibility goal setting, describing the flexibility principles of training, summarizing the role of joints in flexibility, and comparing flexibility activities.
Factors Contributing to Health and Fitness
Students will demonstrate an understanding of factors contributing to health and fitness by summarizing health risk factors, describing health- and skill-related components of fitness, and explaining injury prevention.
Stress Management
Students will demonstrate an understanding of stress management by describing assessment of stressors, explaining stress management strategies, and summarizing long- and short-term goals.
Cardiovascular Health
Students will demonstrate an understanding of cardiovascular health by explaining the cardiovascular system, describing cardiovascular disease prevention, and analyzing cardiovascular fitness.
The Benefits of Muscular Fitness
Students will demonstrate an understanding of the benefits of muscle fitness by explaining the benefits of weight training, describing weight-lifting exercises, and summarizing training principles.
Nutritional Health
Students will demonstrate an understanding of nutritional health by analyzing dietary guidelines, explaining daily intake guidelines, and summarizing the importance of water.
A Healthy Body
Students will demonstrate an understanding of a healthy body by explaining body composition, analyzing healthy weight management, and summarizing eating issues.
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