Physical Education stresses team and individual sports with an emphasis on physical fitness. Each sport is chosen so that it will contribute to the student's physical fitness, skill, and knowledge of that sport. Team sports include basketball, volleyball, softball, floor hockey, wiffle ball, soccer, flag football, kickball, team handball, and pillow polo. Individual sports include badminton, shuffleboard, pickle ball, tennis, table tennis, golf, bowling, and tumbling. A $5 fee is charged for this course, which covers lock, shorts, and towel usage.

PERSONAL FITNESS
Grades 9-12

In this fitness course, students will develop positive health and fitness attitudes, skills, and behaviors that they can adopt and enjoy for the rest of their life. Students will become educated about their own personal levels of physical activity and physical fitness, experience the benefits of physical activity, physical fitness conditioning, and lifetime sports. Students will also assess their own level of physical fitness and progress, and design a physical activity and physical fitness program that can meet their individual needs now and in the future. Students will be required to dress out daily.

HEALTH
Grades 9-12

The purpose of the health education program is to make students more health conscious and to instill in each student the basic ideas of the physical, mental, and social aspects of health. The areas that are discussed are: systems of the body; mental and social health; effect of environment on one's health; heredity; social drugs; human sexuality; communicable diseases; food, diet, nutrition; and health careers.

DRIVERS EDUCATION
Grades 9-12

This .5 course is designed to provide the student with the knowledge and skills to become a safe, efficient user of the highway system. The course consists of approximately two weeks of classroom study in which the student first prepares for the driver's licensing exam, then studies safe driving techniques, map reading, maintenance of the automobile, etc. After this, each student drives one day per week for the remainder of the term. A student must have a valid license or learner's permit and have earned a grade point average of at least 2.0 for the previous semester in order to enroll in this course.
NOTE: Drivers Education can be requested only as an alternate. If you request it, indicate the 9-week course that it will replace.