Middle School Health & Physical Education Courses
Comprehensive PE Grade 6/7
Description
Each community is full of fitness opportunities that enable students to achieve new levels of fitness through sports, dance, aquatics, and more! This course provides a foundation of knowledge, skills, and values students need to develop a physically active lifestyle. A friendly cast of course characters helps guide and enhance each student’s experience. Knowledge about safety rules for exercise, how to improve sport skills, how different activities target different body parts, and how to set and a goal are all part of student learning and participation. Activity choices are plentiful, leading to a healthy and physically active lifestyle. The Presidential Fitness Challenge encourages students to perform their best with a chance to earn the Presidential Fitness award. Students keep a log of physical fitness activities while they explore topics such as diversity in sports, nutrition, peer pressure, and making good choices. A few PE projects deepen students’ understanding of individual health and skill-related fitness, and the world as it relates to games and sports. Students choose various activities to reach goals they may have only dreamed about!
Pre-Requisites: None
Credits: 0.5
Estimated Completion Time: 1 Segment/12-16 weeks
Major Topics and Concepts
Fitness Zone
- Introduction to Physical Fitness
- Safety First
- Warming Up and Cooling Down
- Health-Related Components of Fitness
- Cardiovascular Activity
- Heart Rate and Exercise
- FITT Training Principles
Skill Zone
- Do You Have Skills?
- Speed, Agility, and Reaction Time
- Balance and Coordination
- Power
- Body Mechanics
- Music and Movement
- Movement and Etiquette
- Choreography and Improvisation
Team Zone
- Playing with Others
- Be a Good Sport
- Individual and Dual Activities
- Group Rhythmic Activities
- Team Sports
- Winning Strategies
Lifestyle Zone
- Fitness Opportunities
- Getting to Your Goals
- Peer Pressure
- Sportsmanship
- Diversity through Sports
- Nutrition
Health Zone
- Health Risks
- Health Information, Products, and Services
- Making Healthy Decisions
- Enhancing One’s Health
- Positive and Negative Health Influences from Family, Peers, and Culture
- Promote Positive Health Choices
Comprehensive PE Grade 7/8
Description
Team sports, extreme sports, and outdoor sports are among the types of activities students learn about and participate in during this course! This interactive, highly animated course helps students learn safety rules for exercise, how to improve skills, and how to establish and accomplish goals. It also provides an overview of many dual, team, extreme, and outdoor sports. Students have the opportunity to earn a national award by participating in the Presidential Fitness Challenge. Practicing game strategy to improve the chance of winning in competition, improving sport skill and performance, diversity in sports, nutrition, peer pressure, and making good choices balance out the topics students discover in this course. Fitness logs help students monitor physical activities. Students complete projects that lead to the knowledge, skills, and values they need to implement and maintain a physically active lifestyle.
Pre-Requisites: None
Credits: 0.5
Estimated Completion Time: 1 Segment/12-16 weeks
Major Topics and Concepts
Fitness Zone
- Introduction to Physical Fitness
- Safety First
- Warming Up and Cooling Down
- Health-Related Components of Fitness
- Cardiovascular Activity
- Heart Rate and Exercise
- FITT Training Principles
Skill Zone
- Do You Have Skills?
- Speed, Agility, and Reaction Time
- Balance and Coordination
- Power
- Body Mechanics
- Play by the Rules
- Aquatics
- Outdoor Pursuits
Team Zone
- Playing with Others
- Be a Good Sport
- Dual Activities
- Alternate and Extreme Activities
- Team Sports
- Winning Strategies
Lifestyle Zone
- Fitness Opportunities
- Getting to Your Goals
- Peer Pressure
- Sportsmanship
- Diversity Through Sports
- Nutrition
Health Zone
- Health Risks
- Health Information, Products, and Services
- Making Healthy Decisions
- Enhancing One’s Health
- Positive and Negative Health Influences from Family, Peers, and Culture
- Positive Health Choices
Fitness Grade 6
Description
Students who want to be fit but don’t know where to start are invited to join a diverse group of virtual classmates who help with exploring and understanding fitness and health. With the support of these virtual friends, students determine current personal fitness levels and learn to improve those levels. Students also learn safety rules for exercise, how to create equipment from household items, how different activities target different body parts, how to set and reach a goal, and how to be good sports. Students keep a log of physical fitness activities while exploring topics that include diversity in sports, nutrition, peer pressure, and making good choices. Coach Cardio help measure growing fitness levels while students complete their projects. Each PE project leads to improved student understanding of personal skills and the environments in which activities are played.
Pre-Requisites: None
Credits: 0.5
Estimated Completion Time: 1 Segment/12-16 weeks
Major Topics and Concepts
Health Club
- Introduction to Physical Fitness
- Safety First
- Warming Up and Cooling Down
- Health-Related Components of Fitness
- Heart Health
Cardio Zone
- Body Composition and Health
- Measuring Body Composition and Cardiovascular Fitness
- Maintaining Body Composition
- Cardiovascular Activity
- Heart Rate and Activity
- Cardiovascular Training Principles
Fitness Zone
- Healthy Muscles, Bones, and Joints
- Measuring Flexibility and Muscular Fitness
- Maintaining Flexibility
- Maintaining Healthy Muscles and Bones
- Equipment
- Training Principles
Team Work
- Fitness Opportunities
- Getting to Your Goals
- Peer Pressure
- Sportsmanship
- Diversity Through Sports
- Activities around the World
Health Zone
- Health Risks
- Health Information, Products and Services
- Making Healthy Decisions
- Enhancing One’s Health
- Positive and Negative Health Influences from Family, Peers, and Culture
- Positive Health Choices