Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
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- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
learn five basic swimming strokes, practice water safety and survival skills, improve their aquatic fitness, and participate in recreational activities
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
- Enhance physical performance, health, and appearance through cardiovascular endurance training.
- Be able to calculate target heart rate and keep it in a healthy zone.
- Be exposed to low/high impact aerobics, step, power balls, circuit training, etc.
- Design their own routines set to music.
- Understand the importance of proper nutrition.
- Loveland High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Men’s or Women’s Weights and/or instructor approval (at BHS/TVHS Instructor signature required)
- Know and understand the rules, techniques, and safety expectations of the weight room.
- Perform an individualized lifting program that is sport-specific and designed by the head coaches of various sports.
- Demonstrate and understand the concepts of plyometric training through participation.
- Demonstrate responsible behavior in all activities.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Recommended: Participant must be 15 by the last day of class
- Potential to earn American Red Cross certification.
- Have the opportunity to learn the skills necessary to be an effective “first responder.”
- Have the opportunity to be certified in Basic Cardiac Resuscitation (child and adult).
- Gain the knowledge to assess and treat common injuries, illnesses, and conditions.
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: 500-yard swim, retrieve 10-pound brick from 10-foot depth, must be 15 by the last day of the class
Fee: Set by Red Cross - approximately $65
- Meet the American Red Cross Lifeguard Training requirements.
- Develop cardiovascular conditioning, strength training, stroke proficiency, rescue techniques, lifeguarding, CPR and First Aid, professionalism, and employability.
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Fee: $15 per semester plus $5 trip fee
- Become proficiently skilled at individual lifetime activities, including golf, tennis, tennis-related activities, badminton, pickleball, table tennis, shuffleboard, Frisbee golf, etc.
- Know and understand the rules, techniques, and safety expectations of the activities.
- Participate in individual lifetime wellness activities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of fitness concepts by participating in warm-up and cool-down activities.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
- Be proficiently skilled in net games, including tennis, volleyball, badminton, pickleball, table tennis, etc.
- Know and understand the rules, techniques, and safety expectations of the activities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of fitness components by participating in warm-up and cool-down activities.
- Participate in lifetime activities.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
This course combines students of all abilities to participate in developmentally appropriate activities, including lifetime activities, physical fitness, and sport. Students will work together to increase competence and confidence in a variety of physical activities. Through ongoing leadership opportunities, members of this course will be empowered to help create a more inclusive and accepting school environment for all students.
- Berthoud High School
- Mountain View High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
This course combines students of all abilities to participate in developmentally appropriate activities, including lifetime activities, physical fitness, and sport. Students will work together to increase competence and confidence in a variety of physical activities. Through ongoing leadership opportunities, members of this course will be empowered to help create a more inclusive and accepting school environment for all students.
- Loveland High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
- Acquire techniques in avoiding potentially hazardous situations and respond appropriately when under personal attack.
- NOT learn aggressive violence or offensive attack methods.
- Learn basic common sense techniques on how to avoid or defensively escape from violent personal attacks.
- Gain confidence in themselves and have a greater sense of self-reliance.
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
- Become proficiently skilled in team games, including team handball, soccer, softball, indoor hockey, touch football, volleyball, basketball, ultimate Frisbee, etc.
- Know and understand the rules, techniques, and safety expectations of the activities.
- Participate in lifetime team activities.
- Demonstrate an understanding of fitness concepts by participating in warm-up and cool-down activities.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
- Develop skills and knowledge in weight lifting and muscle toning exercises to safely and successfully lift weights as a recreational activity or to utilize their weight lifting knowledge in pursuit of specific goals for personal or athletic improvement.
- Develop knowledge about safety, spotting techniques, muscles and their movement, cardiovascular conditioning, and work ethic.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
- Develop skills and knowledge in weight lifting and muscle toning exercises to safely and successfully lift weights as a recreational activity or to utilize their weight lifting knowledge in pursuit of specific goals for personal or athletic improvement.
- Develop knowledge about safety, spotting techniques, muscles and their movement, cardiovascular conditioning, and work ethic.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Weight Training 1
Grades 10, 11, 12 at Loveland High School
Learn lifetime fitness concepts, including the principles of Overload, Progression, and Specificity.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Career Pathway Elective
Recommended: Weight Training 1
Grades 10, 11, 12 at Loveland High School
Learn lifetime fitness concepts, including the principles of Overload, Progression, and Specificity.
- Berthoud High School
- Loveland High School
- Mountain View High School
- Thompson Valley High School
- Electives – Fitness/Physical Education
- Fitness/Physical Education
Credit: 0.5 Fitness or Career Pathway Elective
Fee: $10 for equipment upkeep (yoga mats, yoga blocks, etc.)
- Develop skills and knowledge in yoga movement, meditation, and breathing exercises.
- Know and understand yoga vocabulary, sequences, and poses.
- Apply the benefits of yoga to improve adolescent health and well-being (puberty, physiology, brain development).
- Apply yoga movement, meditation, and breathing to develop stress management skills, improve physical and mental health, and social emotional learning.
- Improve personal flexibility and balance.
- Design and create their own yoga sequences to present.
- Use yoga as a method of lifelong fitness.
- Thompson Valley High School