High Personal Fitness
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Number of Credits
0.5
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Estimated Completion Time
1 segment / 16-18 weeks
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Earliest Start Date
March 2025
Description
Take it personally! Your health and fitness, that is. There’s no one-size-fits-all solution, so this course is designed with you at the center of achieving a lifetime of overall health and physical fitness. Learn about why and how your body moves with the components of fitness, as well as how to set and reach goals to keep improving. Stay safe with injury and disease prevention and keeping your body free of harmful substances. Emotional health is important, too. You’ll learn skills like building resiliency, managing stress, and maintaining healthy relationships. Let’s get started on your personal journey!
Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course:
Module One:
- Benefits of Physical Activity
- MVPA Guidelines
- Safety
- Sport Etiquette
- Teamwork
- Sportsmanship
- Skill Related Components of Fitness
- Biomechanics
Module Two:
- Health Related Components of Fitness
- Principles of Fitness
- Cardiorespiratory Endurance
- Flexibility
- Muscular Strength and Endurance
- Goal Setting
- Personal Fitness Plan
Module Three:
- Community Health
- Environmental Health
- Prescription Drugs Abuse
- Opioids
- Alcohol Abuse
- Illegal Narcotics
- Tobacco
- Nicotine
- Vaping
Module Four:
- Nutrition
- Preventative Health Care
- Stress Management
- Mental Health
- Emotional Health
- Social Media
- Peer Relationships
- Peer Pressure
- Personal Responsibility
- Resiliency
Besides engaging students in challenging curriculum, the course guides students to reflect on their learning and evaluate their progress through a variety of assessments. Assessments can be in the form of practice lessons, multiple choice questions, writing assignments, projects, research papers, oral assessments, and discussions. This course will use the state-approved grading scale. Each course contains a mandatory final exam or culminating project that will be weighted at 20% of the student’s overall grade.***
***Proctored exams can be requested by FLVS at any time and for any reason in an effort to ensure academic integrity. When taking the exam to assess a student’s integrity, the exam must be passed with at least a 59.5% in order to earn credit for the course.
Courses subject to availability.
Pursuant to s. 1002.20, F.S.; A public school student whose parent makes written request to the school principal shall be exempted from the teaching of reproductive health or any disease, including HIV/AIDS, in accordance with the provisions of s. 1003.42(3). Learn more about the process and which courses contain subject matter where an exemption request can be made.
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