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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