PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND WELLNESS PROGRAM

The District 200 physical education program operates under the assumption that fitness, quality , and good nutrition are life-long goals, and the foundation for achieving those goals can be realized through daily practice in the high school years. District 200 expects all students to pass the equivalent of eight semesters of physical education. Health education counts the equivalent of one semester of the requirement and driver education may also substitute for one semester.

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Freshman Sophomore Responding to Physical Physical Emergencies Two Semesters Selected Education and Education and (RTE) from Senior Electives: Wellness Wellness - Competitive Team and/or Sports - Dance Health Education Designer - Fitness and Nutrition Fitness Plan - Group and/or (DFP) - Intermediate Team Sports Driver Education - Leisure and Recreational Sports - Self-Defense - Strength and Cardio Training

ADAPTIVE PHYSICAL EDUCATION (I) competitions. Students are expected to compete Length: Multiple Semesters on a daily basis in seasonal team sports that may Grades: 9, 10, 11, 12 include flag football, soccer, basketball, floor Adaptive Physical Education is designed to hockey, and softball. Students must be familiar provide a variety of activities and teaching with the rules of the games, and they should procedures that are adapted to the specific have mastered fundamental skills and strategies physical limitations of individual students. of the identified sports. Students will also work Students, through medical verification and/or in exercise sessions for muscle fitness, cardio- special education identification processes, must respiratory fitness, and personal wellness. be unable to participate in a regular Physical Education program because of short or long- term convalescence, physical injury, or DANCE (I) permanent, non-corrective disability. Length: Multiple Semesters Grade: 12 Dance includes instruction in a variety of dance COMPETITIVE TEAM SPORTS (I) forms. Students practice dance movement that Length: Multiple Semesters includes jazz, modern, tap, ballet, and popular Grade: 12 recreational dance styles. Culturally diverse Competitive Team Sports engages participants dance and movements are introduced and in rigorous athletic team activities and practiced within the context of various routines.

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DESIGNER FITNESS PLAN (DFP) (I) semesters. The change also applies to Length: One Semester commercial driving schools, which must Grade: 11 verify through a written confirmation form Designer Fitness Plan (DFP) includes a with the high school that the student has met background of knowledge necessary to provide this requirement before enrolling him/her in each student with a comprehensive, personal their commercial school. fitness-training program. Basic concepts relating to , anatomy and will provide the student with the framework FITNESS AND NUTRITION (I) necessary to understand general fitness training Length: Multiple Semesters concepts. Personal assessments, goal sets and Grade: 12 program design will allow each student to Qualifies for: PE Requirement or Elective monitor individual progress. The course will Credit provide specific exercise prescriptions, logged This course is subject to a consumable fee. workouts, personal goal setting and analysis of Fitness and Nutrition develops exercise current nutritional choices along with programs based on the fitness and nutritional implementation of a personal nutritional plan. evaluation of each student. Students will develop a portfolio containing personal fitness assessments, exercise prescriptions, weight DRIVER EDUCATION (I) control management strategies, and individual Length: One Semester nutritional analysis. Students will develop Grade: 10 personal wellness strategies by using the Driver Education is a three-phase correlated technology laboratories in family and consumer program that fulfills the state requirement for sciences and physical education fitness room. obtaining a driver's license before a student's 18th birthday. The classroom phase emphasizes the theory of good driving practice and safety FRESHMAN PHYSICAL EDUCATION precautions. The development of good attitudes AND WELLNESS (I) toward driving will be stressed. The simulator Length: Two Semesters phase introduces the student to proper driving Grade: 9 techniques, giving exposure to a variety of Freshman Physical Education and Wellness simulated driving conditions. The car phase includes an introduction to the principles of “fit permits practice and perfection in the skill of for life,” the primary goal of the District 200 driving. secondary level physical education program. Units of study include personal health and Important Additional Driver Education fitness assessments, creating wellness profiles, Information: developing guidelines for appropriate life-long exercise, and participation in a variety of • Driver Education requires a $250.00 per physical skill activities that include traditional student fee. sports and games. Additional classroom • A Social Security number must be secured instruction includes units and/or activities before beginning this course. related to violence prevention, personal safety, • House Bill #418 (Public Act 88-188) mental health, communication skills, listening dictates that in order for a public or private skills, coping skills, and strategies for self-help. school student to be eligible for enrollment Seasonal activities are included as part of the in Driver Education, he/she must have program and vary dependent on weather received a passing grade in at least eight (8) conditions and availability of facilities and courses during the previous two (2) outdoor resources.

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GROUP EXERCISE (I) LEISURE AND RECREATIONAL SPORTS Length: Multiple Semesters (I) Grade: 12 Length: Multiple Semesters Group Exercise provides students with Grade: 12 opportunities to participate in group-fitness This course is subject to a bus transportation fee exercise workouts that will improve their (South only). personal fitness levels in flexibility, muscle Leisure and Recreational Sports seeks to achieve fitness, and cardio-respiratory health. Workouts lifetime health and fitness through a will include: yoga, Pilates, step aerobics, cardio combination of recreational sports participation, kick boxing, cardio resistance training, basic fitness training and wellness concepts. This core training, and dance instruction. Students course introduces students to those physical will also be involved in the participation and activities that can provide life-long participation. tracking of weekly fitness-training Units such as bowling, cross country skiing, programming. biking, walking, , golf, and cardio fitness develop and maintain through recreational sports participation. HEALTH EDUCATION (I) Length: One Semester Grade: 10 RESPONDING TO EMERGENCIES (RTE) Health is a district requirement for graduation (I) completed during the sophomore year. Topics Length: One Semester are divided into three units of study that include Grade: 11 mental health, drugs and substance abuse, and This course is subject to a consumable fee. human relationships. Each unit includes Responding to Emergencies (RTE) instructs assigned readings, classroom lecture and students about the fundamentals of first-aid, the discussion, and regular homework assignments. required skills for cardio pulmonary The course challenges students to think resuscitation certification, and the most current critically, by developing problem solving and practice in how to respond to physical, life- decision-making skills that enhance personal threatening emergencies. In addition to health choices. emergency care lessons, the course emphasizes the value of a safe and healthy life-style in preventing injury and illness. The course INTERMEDIATE TEAM SPORTS (I) includes lecture, discussion, and training Length: Multiple Semesters simulations of emergency situations. Grade: 12 Intermediate Team Sports offers a basic experience in popular team sports. Topics and SELF-DEFENSE (I) activities include history of sport, basic rules, Length: Multiple Semesters equipment requirements, and basic skills and Grade: 12 strategies. Students participate in team Self-Defense is designed to help students competition in seasonal sports including flag develop greater awareness of their surroundings, football, soccer, basketball, volleyball, tennis, learn preventative and precautionary measures to badminton, and softball. avoid becoming a possible victim of crime, and acquire basic knowledge in self-defense tactics to use if preventative measures fail. Cardiovascular conditioning, flexibility, and muscular will be conducted twice weekly to fulfill a complete self-defense program.

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SOPHOMORE PHYSICAL EDUCATION STRENGTH AND CARDIO TRAINING (I) AND WELLNESS (I) Length: Multiple Semesters Length: One Semester Grade: 12 Grade: 10 Strength and Cardio Training includes a Sophomore Physical Education and Wellness background of knowledge necessary to provide expands on the concepts, skills, and practices each student with a comprehensive, personal experienced in the freshman program. While fitness-training program. Basic concepts fitness, nutrition, and personal health remain the relating to exercise physiology, anatomy, and focus of sophomore program, students begin to kinesiology will provide the student with the develop and evaluate their individual activities framework necessary to understand general and fitness programs. Body composition, fitness training concepts. Personal assessments, weight control, diet and nutrition, and high-risk goal sets, and program design will allow behaviors are all topics addressed and developed students to monitor their progress. The instructor in the sophomore program. The program for all students, along with the individual includes classroom activities as well as program design, will plan specific exercise traditional physical activity and varies by season prescriptions. Students will keep a folder and facility availability throughout the school including daily-logged workouts, goal sets, and year. assessments.

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