District 11 Curriculum & Instruction Department
Health & Physical Education



Grade 9 -12, Fitness for Life

Course Number: PE.FITLIFE


Overview                                                                              
View the Video Introduction. How would you describe your ideal self one year, five years, and twenty-five years from now?  Do you envision yourself as an overweight couch potato who doesn’t even have the energy to play with your own children?  Most likely this isn’t your visualization, but it could easily be your reality if fitness does not become an important ingredient of your daily life. This unit offers you the opportunity to continue to learn about and participate in a variety of fitness activities.  All activities will fulfill one or more of the components of fitness.  You will build upon your current knowledge of fitness not only to participate at an advanced level but to also devise and implement your own fitness program.  You will be exposed to a variety of fitness activities such as: circuit training, swimming, running, bicycling, aerobics, yoga, Pilates, and much more.

Prerequisite: None
Course Length: 2   Period Length: 0   Grade Level:  9-12  Credit per Semester: 1
Additional Credit Information: Credit per Semester: 1.0 (Physical Education or Elective)

 
For Teachers
Quarter 1  2
Quarter 3  4
Prerequisite
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Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

  • A complete fitness program promotes participation in grade level skills and activities that build health and wellness including cardiovascular, flexibility, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and lifetime activity.

  • Good sportsmanship includes following rules of play and being responsible for yourself and the safety of others.

  • We can increase our health and wellness by participating in the physical activities we lead or participate in by ourselves and with others.

  • Rules help keep games and activities safe and fair.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

  • How does movement, muscle stretching, doing sit ups, push ups and pull ups increase body strength and overall health?

  • How can people protect themselves sore muscles or injury from over exercising? 

  • Why do we have to be responsible for our own behavior?

  • What is the purpose for rules of play in athletic or competitive sports?

  • How do class rules and team rules help make competitive sports and individual sports more enjoyable?

  • Why is cooperation important in games and in life?

  • How does cooperation in games impact the final outcome?

  • What does good sportsmanship look like?

Standards

Standard 1: Demonstrates skills in a variety of activities
Benchmark: Loco motor, non-loco motor, manipulative skill development and movement
District Indicator: Repeatedly performs loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Standard 2: Exhibits components of physical fitness
District Indicator: Demonstrates cardiovascular endurance
District Indicator: Demonstrates flexibility
District Indicator: Demonstrates muscular strength and endurance
Essential Skills
Demonstrates loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
 Demonstrates cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and flexibility.
Participates in a standardized fitness test.
Cardiovascular - Participated in games that increase breathing, heart rate, sustains activity for increasingly longer periods of time.

Resources

Performance Indicator  Assessments
Life Skills and Sportsmanship Assessment

Lessons

 

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