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Lifetime Fitness

Course Description

Students taking Lifetime Fitness will learn activities essential to overall health and wellness. Activities include fitness walking, running, weight
training, aerobics, yoga, pilates, stability and bosu balls, resistance bands, jump rope and other fitness-based activities based on teacher
discretion and available facilities.  The course is designed to develop a student’s desire to pursue and plan for lifelong physical fitness.

Grade Level(s):  9th-12th grades

Related Priority Standards (State &/or National):

Essential Questions

  • What concepts, principles, strategies, and tactics are related to movement and performance?
  • How can I achieve and maintain health-enhancing levels of physical activity and fitness?
  • How can I demonstrate responsible personal and social behavior that respects self and others?
  • What is the value of physical activity?

Enduring Understandings/Big Ideas

Students will responsibly and cooperatively work together to achieve a (course, unit, skill) goal with focus, effort (grit), and consistency, where each student develops an intrinsic appreciation for the pursuit of wellbeing.

Course-Level Scope & Sequence (Units &/or Skills)

Unit: Individual Lifetime Wellness Activities

Students will understand and participate in a variety of activities that promote lifetime fitness.

  • Aerobics
  • Jump Rope
  • Pilates
  • Running
  • Yoga

Unit: Strength & Conditioning

Students will understand and participate in a variety of activities that promote lifetime strength and conditioning.

  • Fitness Walking
  • Running
  • Circuit Training
  • Cross Fit
  • Super Sets
  • Giant Sets
  • Resistance Bands
  • Weight Training
  • Stability and Bosa Balls
  • Exercise Routines

Date Last Revised/Approved: 2018