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Physical Education: Personal Fitness

Syllabus

Course Essential Questions

  • What are the benefits of participating in different types of physical activities?
  • How can physical activity contribute to a healthy lifestyle?
  • How can we develop a lifelong habit of being physically active?

Course Learning Objectives

  • Apply a variety of physical activity skills in different movement patterns.
  • Analyze the benefits of regular participation in physical activities.
  • Create and assess fitness goals by applying the metrics of health-related fitness.
  • Identify the role of physical activity within the health triangle.

Unit 1: Get Moving! (Weeks 1-3)

Unit Level Essential Questions

  • What are the health benefits of exercise?
  • Why is it important to set fitness goals and track physical activity?

Week 1: Personal Fitness

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Identify safe exercise guidelines.
  • Describe the parts of an exercise workout.
  • Take your pulse and calculate your heart rate.

Week 2: Goals and Fitness Tracking

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Assess and evaluate personal fitness levels.
  • Apply S.M.A.R.T. goals to fitness.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on weekly physical activity.

Week 3: Benefits of Exercise

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Identify and connect the health benefits of exercise to chronic diseases.
  • Evaluate personal attitudes towards physical activity.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity.

Unit 2: Health-related Fitness (Weeks 4-8)

Unit Level Essential Questions

  • What does exercise do for the body?
  • How are F.I.T.T. goals applied to a workout program?

Week 4: Cardiovascular Health

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Investigate the contributions of the heart, lungs, and blood to cardiovascular fitness.
  • Relate how exercise improves the fitness of the heart and vascular system.
  • Calculate your Target Heart Rate.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Assess your fitness levels and compare them to your pre-assessment results.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on cardiovascular endurance.

Week 5: Cardiorespiratory Health

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Examine the contributions of the lungs to cardiorespiratory fitness.
  • Explain how exercise improves the fitness of the cardiorespiratory system.
  • Apply the FITT principle with cardiorespiratory endurance to set fitness goals.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on cardiorespiratory endurance.

Week 6: Muscular Strength and Endurance

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Describe the benefits of good muscular fitness.
  • Explain the principles of exercise and how they relate to a fitness plan.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on muscular strength and endurance.

Week 7: Flexibility and Balance

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Research and share sports and exercise science professions.
  • Examine the general functions of the skeletal system and joints.
  • Investigate stretching techniques and the benefits of keeping body flexibility.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on stretching and flexibility.

Week 8: Self-Expression and Exercise

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Create and explain a choreographed fitness activity.
  • Relate functional movements and exercises to strength and conditioning.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Assess your fitness levels and reflect on your results.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on self-expression and/or functional movement.

Unit 3: Connecting Fitness to Physical Health (Weeks 9-11)

Unit Level Essential Questions

  • What is the relationship between disease risk factors and exercise?
  • How are injuries prevented during exercise?
  • How does food culture affect diet and health?

Week 9: Disease Prevention

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Analyze the ways in which activity and fitness contribute to health and wellness.
  • Examine hypokinetic diseases and their effect on health.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on disease prevention.

Week 10: Injury Prevention

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Describe the benefits of a warm-up and cool-down.
  • Research ways to reduce common injuries from physical activity.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on ways to reduce the risk of injury.

Week 11: Nutrition

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Discuss the role of food culture on one's diet.
  • Investigate dietary nutrients and their health function.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on nutritional intake.

Unit 4: Finding Balance (Weeks 12-15)

Unit Level Essential Questions

  • How can we maintain a healthy body?
  • What are the proper stress management techniques we can use to help reduce the impact of stress in our lives?
  • How will our fitness goals of today help us in the future?
  • How is nutrient intake associated with diet and exercise?

Week 12: Energy Balance

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Investigate nutrition practices that enhance performance when physically active.
  • Reflect on your energy balance and consider if it is healthy or not.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on energy expenditure.

Week 13: The Health Triangle

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Examine the relationships between culture, body image, and health.
  • Share a favorite outdoor activity and how that affects your emotional health.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity in relation to the health triangle.

Week 14: Stress and Wellness

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Define stress and explain how the body responds to it.
  • Evaluate your hardiness and develop strategies for stress management.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity with a focus on stress management.

Week 15: Set Your Future Goal

Weekly Learning Objectives

  • Analyze your fitness levels.
  • Assess all that you've learned in the course.
  • Exercise weekly throughout the course.
  • Track and reflect on physical activity.
  • Predict what your future holds for your personal fitness.