Woodrow Wilson Senior High School Course Syllabus

 

Course: Health and Physical Education P-16 (10th Grade)

Department: Health and Physical Education

Credit: 1.0 After Successfully Completing the Course

 

Course Description:

            Focuses on application of health skills in the areas of coping with life’s situations, human sexuality, environmental and consumer concerns, personal health appraisal and other health related issues.  The physical education component provides fitness assessment, intermediate advanced skill performance individual and team sports, aquatics, and other lifetime sports.  Application of theory of game play and officiating will be related to selected sports. 

Content Standards:

            Students must understand, explain, and apply concepts related to health promotion and disease prevention in order to achieve and maintain healthy lifestyles.

 

            Students must access, interpret, evaluate, and communicate health information and influence of ethnicity, media, and technology.

 

            Students shall demonstrate competence in the knowledge of and experience in the development of performance skills in a variety of physical activities.

 

Course Outline:

            Aquatics will be taught for one advisory; health for one advisory; indoor activities for one advisory; outdoor activities for one advisory.

 

            Health education will consist of reading, writing, reporting, test taking and home assignments.  The course is designed to enable students to acquire knowledge and master required course objective pertaining to any and all of the subjects listed below:

  1. Human Sexuality
  2. Sexually Transmitted Diseases
  3. Nutrition
  4. Tobacco, Alcohol, and other Drugs and Assimilated Substances
  5. Decision Making/Refusal Skills
  6. Consumerism, Health Products and Services
  7. Suicide, Depression, and Stress Management
  8. Cancer and Terminal Illnesses

 

Students will complete the following objectives for each sport covered in the Physical Education component:

  1. Give historical background
  2. State the rules of the game or activity
  3. Describe game play
  4. State the meaning of terms
  5. Describe violations and fouls
  6. Demonstrate basics skills

 

The Physical Education activity segment may be chosen from the following sports:

  1. Touch football
  2. Soccer
  3. Basketball
  4. Badminton
  5. Tennis
  6. Volleyball
  7. Softball
  8. Dance
  9. Aerobics
  10. Weight Training
  11. Swimming
  12. Frisbee

 

Materials:

  1. Woodrow Wilson Senior High Physical Education uniform (Wilson Tiger shorts and Wilson Tiger tee-shirt)
  2. Tennis shoes and white socks
  3. Notebook
  4. Pad lock
  5. Towel

 

Course Requirements:

            Attendance and participation is required.  Any absence must be supported by a note from home.  Three unexcused absences in a double-period class or five unexcused absences in a single-period class within an advisory may result in failure.

 

            Medical statements are to be submitted on the first day of class if a student is to be exempt from a Physical Education component.  As part of your personal hygiene, it is mandatory that all students take a shower.

 

Grading:

  1. Participation, Preparation, and Skills- 60%
  2. Written Test(s)- 20%
  3. Special Projects/Reports/Notebook- 20%