Health and Physical Education

All physical education courses follow state frameworks.

10, 11, 12 - 1 semester, 1/2 credit

Basic health offers information for healthy living. The course includes wellness, mental health, stress management and suicide prevention, physiology of exercise, information on diabetes, cancer and cardiovascular diseases, training in CPR, family life education, sexually transmitted diseases, and the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs on the body. This course is required for graduation.

10, 11, 12 - 1 semester, 1/2 credit

Open to students at ELL Levels 2 - 3

Health offers information for healthy living. The course includes: wellness; mental health; stress management and suicide prevention; the physiology of exercise; information on diabetes, cancer, and cardiovascular diseases; CPR training; family life education; sexually transmitted diseases; and the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and drugs.

10, 11, 12 - 1 semester, 1/2 credit

Bowling offers basic instruction in fundamentals and techniques of bowling. The first nine weeks are used to learn to keep score, establish average and handicap, and develop techniques. The second nine weeks are competition. Note: Bowling instruction requires that students go by school bus to local bowling lanes. The cost is 75 cents per day to bowl.

10, 11, 12 - 1 semester, 1/2 credit or 1 year, 1 credit

This course consists of general physical education activities, i.e. volleyball, tennis, soccer, basketball, weight training, social dance, badminton.

Updated 02/08/08