Major Concepts/Content: This semester course, which is required for graduation, is designed to enable students in grades nine through twelve to develop the movement skills and conceptual knowledge to make personal physical fitness decisions for a lifetime.  Developmentally appropriate concepts of movement, physical fitness, and personal and social development are included in this course.  Students apply appropriate information and problem solving that will help them achieve an individual, optimal level of fitness.  The course focuses on why fitness is important, assessing an individual’s exercise and activity needs, and how to exercise safely. 

 Major Instructional Activities: Instruction is activity-based to engage students’ in the development of personal lifelong physical fitness.  Students participate in research, discussions, fitness self-assessment, formal fitness assessment, data analysis, goal setting, and developing a personal fitness plan. 

 Major Evaluative Techniques: Multiple assessment strategies are used to enable students to develop their personal fitness skills; e.g.,  checklists, written summaries, authentic performance tasks, activity logs, selected and constructed response tests, and product assessment by the teacher, self, and peers.  The approved DoDEA Physical Fitness Education and Assessment program is implemented in this course.  It is important that the level of fitness not be used as grading criteria for this course.

Last Revised: March 7, 2006