Health & Fitness courses online
Health
Course Code: OPE016
State Code: 08051
Grades: 9-10th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Edmentum
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: Health/GE
Course Designation: Online
Description: Everyone needs to take care of their body, but we aren’t necessarily born with the knowledge of how to go about it. It’s important to invest time and energy into understanding what it means to be healthy. There are many activities you can engage in which are dangerous for your long-term health, so you need to know how to identify and avoid these activities. It’s also important to identify lifestyles which will lead to a longer, more enjoyable life. This course will guide you through lifestyle choices you will make which will ultimately impact your life in meaningful ways.
Physical Education (PE I)
Course Code: OPE001
State Code: 08001
Grades: 9th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Edmentum
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: PE/GE
Course Designation: Online
Description: Your body is a machine that has certain needs—if you treat it well, it should be able to serve you well. But what can you do to promote a fit and healthy body? A course in physical education can show you. By definition, physical education is instruction in exercise and physical activity. It teaches you how to maintain your personal fitness, how to measure different aspects of physical fitness, and how to avoid injury while exercising. It’s all about getting active and setting your body in motion. By measuring health and fitness with objective data, it’s possible to improve your health in a methodical way. Exercise helps you feel good about yourself and helps you sidestep the health problems that often accompany poor levels of fitness.
Physical Education (PE II)
Course Code: OPE002
State Code: 08001
Grades: 10th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Edgenuity
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: PE/GE
Course Designation: Online
Description: Exploring fitness topics such as safe exercise and injury prevention, nutrition and weight management, consumer product evaluation, and stress management, this course equips high school students with the skills they need to achieve lifetime fitness. Throughout this one-semester course, students assess individual fitness levels according to the five components of physical fitness: cardiovascular health, muscular strength, muscular endurance, flexibility, and body composition. Personal fitness assessments encourage students to design a fitness program to meet their individual fitness goals.
PE III HOPE Fitness
Course Code: OPE004
State Code: 08001
Grades: 11th
Length: Semester
Online Platform: Apex Learning
Credit: 0.5
Prerequisite: None
Graduation Requirement: PE/GE
Course Designation: Online
Description: Physical Education combines the best of online instruction with actual student participation in weekly cardiovascular, aerobic, and muscle toning activities. The course promotes a keen understanding of the value of physical fitness and aims to motivate students to participate in physical activities throughout their lives. Specific areas of study include: Cardiovascular exercise and care, safe exercising, building muscle strength and endurance, injury prevention, fitness skills and FITT benchmarks, goal setting, nutrition and diet (vitamins and minerals, food labels, evaluation product claims), and stress management. The course requires routine participation in adult-supervised physical activities. Successful completion of this course will require parent/legal guardian sign-off on student-selected physical activities and on weekly participation reports to verify the student is meeting his or her requirements and responsibilities. Physical Education is built to state standards and informed by the Presidential Council on Physical Fitness and Sports standards.
