Middle M/J Fitness - Grade 6
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Number of Credits
0.5
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Estimated Completion Time
1 Semesters
Description
Get ready to move and learn what makes you move! You’re ready to take some big steps from the playgrounds of elementary school to embarking on your own personal fitness journey in this course. As you discover ways to stay physically fit—and why that’s so important—you’ll learn that fitness has different health and skill components and how those work. Take a deep dive into matters of the heart when you learn about target heart rate and zones and how those help you stay fit, too. As you progress, get ready for some big goals—how to set them, meet them, and keep reaching past them! You’ll also discover that fitness is more than muscle when we all follow the rules and treat each other fairly. All set? Let’s get moving!
Follow the link below for the Department of Education description for this course:
Major Topics and Concepts:
• Fitness Activity Selection
• Benefits of Physical Activity
• Fitness Safety
• Monitoring the Heart
• Target Heart Rate Zone
• Analyzing Fitness Results
• Principles of Fitness: Body Composition
• Nutrition
• Health- and Skill-Related Fitness
• Cardiovascular Fitness
• Muscular and Skeletal Fitness
• Flexibility
• Equipment Creation and Care
• Goals and Motivation
• Peer Pressure and Choices
• Sportsmanship
• Diversity in Sports
• Culture and Sports
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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