Health/Physical Education

Health/Physical Education 10*

Course #7400

1 Credit/Health and PE

36 Weeks

Description

  • Demonstrate an understanding of health concepts, behaviors, and skills that reduce health risks and enhance the health and wellness of oneself and of others throughout life

  • Analyze, synthesize, and evaluate the protective factors needed to make healthy decisions throughout life

  • Advocate for personal health and well-being and promote health-enhancing behaviors for others

  • Demonstrate proficiency and apply the concepts and principles of exercise physiology, biomechanics, and anatomy in a variety of lifetime activities that may include outdoor pursuits, fitness activities, dance and rhythmic activities, aquatics, selected individual performance activities, and net/wall and target games in at least two self-selected, lifelong, skill-related physical activities

  • Demonstrate the ability to apply basic principles of training and scientific concepts and principles to evaluate current fitness behaviors and identify strategies needed for health-enhancing fitness for the present and into adulthood

*The age-appropriate curriculum for this course is prescribed by College Board (Advanced Placement), International Baccalaureate (IBDP, IBCP), the Virginia Community College System (Dual Enrollment), the Virginia Department of Education Standards of Learning (SOLs), or is developed in alignment with best practices for the specialized elective course content. Instruction designed and delivered for this course is done so in alignment with standards developed by those organizations and institutions. As such, HCPS may not substitute, alter, or omit prescribed course content including that which relate(s) to human sexuality. In accordance with P7-05-008, a detailed list of assigned instructional material that contains sexually explicit content that must be taught during this course is available for parental review in advance of course enrollment. As this is an elective course and the materials may not be altered, Parents wishing to request alternative materials for their student may wish to enroll their student in a different course.