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.
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.
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.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of stress management by describing assessment of stressors, explaining stress management strategies, and summarizing long- and short-term goals.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of cardiovascular health by explaining the cardiovascular system, describing cardiovascular disease prevention, and analyzing cardiovascular 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.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of nutritional health by analyzing dietary guidelines, explaining daily intake guidelines, and summarizing the importance of water.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of a healthy body by explaining body composition, analyzing healthy weight management, and summarizing eating issues.
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
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.
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.
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.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of stress management by describing assessment of stressors, explaining stress management strategies, and summarizing long- and short-term goals.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of cardiovascular health by explaining the cardiovascular system, describing cardiovascular disease prevention, and analyzing cardiovascular 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.
Students will demonstrate an understanding of nutritional health by analyzing dietary guidelines, explaining daily intake guidelines, and summarizing the importance of water.
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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