Health and Fitness Online High School Course

Description:

Health and Fitness emphasizes the importance of knowledge, attitudes, and practices relating to personal health and fitness. It is a course designed to expose students to a broad range of issues and information relating to the various aspects of personal health, which include the physical, social, emotional, intellectual, and environmental aspects.

Textbook: Health and Fitness - Excel Education Systems, Inc.

Course objectives:

Throughout the course, you will meet the following goals:

  • Demonstrate knowledge base for various aspects of personal health.
  • Research various personal health related topics.
  • Analyze, integrate and translate personal health information.
  • Apply critical thinking in differentiating between health facts and myths.
  • Apply knowledge gained and values clarified into personal health plan for the future.

 

Contents:

Semester A Semester B
1: Course Resources - Introduction 15: Personal Care
2: Healthy Decision Making 16: Alcohol
3: Emotions, Self-Esteem, and Personality 17: Tobacco
4: Managing Stress 18: Preventing Drug Abuse
5: Mental Disorders and Suicide 19: Reproduction and Heredity
6: Family Relationships 20: From Pregnancy to Baby to Child
7: Developing Positive Peer Relationships 21: Adolescence and Adulthood
8: Preventing Violence 22: The Study of Infectious Disease
9: Food and Nutrition 23: Sexually Transmitted Infections and AIDS
10: Making Healthy Food Choices 24: Chronic Diseases and Disabilities
11: Digestion and Excretion 25: Safeguarding the Public
12: Movement and Coordination 26: A Healthy Community and Environment
13: Cardiovascular and Respiratory Health 27: Preventing Injuries
14: Exercising and Fitness for Life

Grading Scale                                                                                    

A = 90-100%                                                                          

B = 80-89%                                                                            

C = 70-79%                                                                                                                   

D = 60-69%                                                                           

F = under 59%

Grade Weighting

Quizzes……………………......  35%

Written Assignments..... 35%

Final Exam ……………….....  30%

                                        100%

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