Health Education
A planned, sequential, K-12 curriculum that addresses the physical, spiritual,
intellectual, emotional, and social dimensions of health and wellness. The
curriculum is designed to motivate and assist students to maintain and improve
their health, prevent disease, and reduce health-related risk behaviors. It
allows students to develop and demonstrate increasingly sophisticated health-related
knowledge, attitudes, skills, and practices. The comprehensive curriculum
includes a variety of topics such as personal health, family health, community
health, consumer health, environmental health, sexuality education, mental
and emotional health, injury prevention and safety, nutrition, prevention
and control of disease, and substance use and abuse. Qualified, trained teachers
provide health education.
Physical Education
A planned, sequential K-12 curriculum that provides cognitive content
and learning experiences in a variety of activity areas such as basic movement
skills; physical fitness; rhythm and dance; games; team, dual, and individual
sports; tumbling and gymnastics; and aquatics. Quality physical education
should promote, through a variety of planned physical activities, each student's
optimum physical, mental, emotional, and social development and should promote
activities and sports that all students enjoy and can pursue throughout their
lives. Qualified, trained teachers teach physical education.
Drivers Education
This course teaches students the laws of the road, positive driving attitudes
and moral responsibilities. This course is in two phases:
Phase I:
Meets the state requirement of 30 hours of mandatory classroom instruction
extending over one and a half marking periods. The aim of Phase I is to acquaint students
with the driving knowledge, techniques, strategies and attitudes that will enable them to
become safe, responsible drivers.
Phase II:
An optional behind-the-wheel training course. Students become eligible for this
phase upon successful completion of Phase I and after having met all state requirements.
Scheduling for behind-the-wheel will be based on seniority according to age, subject to the availability
of a car and a teacher.
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