Grade 11-12
One Semester, 1 Credit

Advanced Health provides advanced knowledge and skills to help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. Students will:

• practice the development of functional advanced health information (essential concepts)
• determine personal values that support health behaviors
• develop group norms that value a healthy lifestyle
• develop essential skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors

This course provides students with an in-depth study of promoting personal health and wellness, physical activity, healthy eating, promoting safety and preventing unintentional injury and violence, promoting mental and emotional health, a tobacco, alcohol, and other drug-free lifestyle, and promoting human development and family health.

The scientific components of health and wellness, health issues and concerns, health risk appraisals, individual wellness plans, health promotion and health careers are expanded and explored.

Grade 10
One Semester, 1 Credit
Required of all Mater Dei Sophomores

Health and Wellness provides the basis for continued methods of developing knowledge, concepts, skills, behaviors, and attitudes related to student health and well-being. This course includes the major content areas in a planned, sequential, comprehensive health education curriculum, including:

1. growth and development
2. mental and emotional health
3. community and environmental health
4. nutrition
5. family life
6. consumer health
7. personal health
8. alcohol, tobacco and other drugs
9. intentional and unintentional injury
10. health promotion and disease prevention.

Grade 11-12
One Semester, 1 Credit

Current Health Issues, an elective course, focuses on specific health issues and/or emerging trends in health and wellness.

Topics include but are not limited to:

• personal health and wellness
• non-communicable and communicable diseases
• Nutrition
• mental and emotional health
• Tobacco-prevention
• alcohol and other drug-prevention
• human development and family health; health care and/or medical treatments
• national and/or international health issues

This course provides students with the knowledge and skills of health and wellness core concepts, analyzing influences, accessing information, interpersonal communication, decision making and goal-setting skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and health and wellness advocacy skills.

Grade 9-10
One Semester, 1 Credit
Required of all Mater Dei Freshmen

Flex credit meets state requirement

Physical Education I emphasizes health-related fitness and developing the skills and habits necessary for a lifetime of activity. This program includes skill development and the application of rules and strategies of complex difficulty in at least three of the following different movement forms:

1. Health-related fitness activities
2. Aerobic exercise
3. Team sports
4. Individual sports
5. Outdoor pursuits
6. Dance
7. Recreational games

Ongoing assessment will include both written and performance-based evaluations.

Grade 9-10
One Semester, 1 Credit
Required of all Mater Dei Freshmen

Flex credit meets state requirement

Physical Education II continues the emphasis on personal commitment to lifetime activity and fitness for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression and social interaction. This class provides students with opportunities to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness and increase their knowledge of fitness concepts. It includes at least three different movement forms without repeating those offered in PE I. Movement forms may include:

1. Health-related fitness activities
2. Aerobic exercise
3. Team sports
4. Individual sports
5. Outdoor pursuits
6. Dance
7. Recreational games

Ongoing assessment will include both written and performance-based evaluations.

Grade 9, 10
1 Activity, 1 Credit
completed by end of sophomore year

The goal of a physically educated student is to maintain appropriate levels of cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition necessary for a healthy productive life. Through a rigorous school-sponsored extracurricular activity or Marching Band, student-participants practice skills that demonstrate:

• competency in motor skills and movement patterns
• understanding of movement concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics as they apply to the learning and performance of physical activity
• regular participation in a physical activity to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness
• responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others in physical activity settings
• value for physical activity for health, enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and/or social interaction
• physical activity as critical to the development and maintenance of good health.

Physical activity includes the study of physical development concepts and principles of sport and exercise as well as opportunities to develop or refine skills and attitudes that promote lifelong fitness.

Priority areas include:

• promoting personal health and wellness
• physical activity
• healthy eating
• promoting safety and injury prevention
• supporting mental and emotional health
• establishing a tobacco-free
• Alcohol-free
• other drug-free lifestyle

A student can fulfill the state requirement for Physical Education with Flex Credit for two (2) school sponsored activities or Marching Band, OR one (1) semester of Flex Credit for one (1) activity and one (1) semester of coursework.

Scheduling for Physical Education Flex Credit must be approved through the Guidance Office. Ongoing assessment includes performance-based skill evaluation, daily attendance and student journal. A maximum of two credits can be earned provided that there is no course or skill level duplication. Must meet criteria of a school-sponsored extracurricular activity. The role of team managers does not qualify for flex credit in physical education.

Grade 10-12
One Semester, 1 Credit
Pre-requisite: Physical Education I and II or Flex

Elective Physical Education promotes lifetime sport and recreational activities and provides an opportunity for an in-depth study in specific areas. These courses cover the physical development concepts and principles of sport and exercise as well as opportunities to design and develop an appropriate personal fitness program that enables students to develop and achieve a desired level of fitness. Ongoing assessment will include written and performance-based evaluations. Elective Physical Education courses in weightlifting may be taken for a total of four (4) semesters, one each year. Only one (1) Physical Education course may be taken during a semester.

Grades 10-12 Lifetime Sports includes:

• Disc Golf
• Handball
• Tennis
• Recreational Games
• Archery
• Bowling

Grades 10-12 Weight Lifting incorporates machine and free weights, plyometrics, and core exercises to strengthen the body.