Grade 9/ Two Semesters/ Required
This course is designed to help students become more aware of the purpose and value of physical fitness for an active and healthy future. Students will gain an appreciation and understanding of a variety of team and individual sports, which will enable them to enjoy the role of participant or spectator. Physical Education class will include units in flag football, soccer, speedball, basketball, volleyball, softball, tennis, bowling, ice-skating, conditioning, weight training, and floor hockey. Adaptive physical education is offered as needed in the least restricted environment and on individual assessment.

Grade 9-10/ Semester/ Required
Health & Wellness, a course based on Indiana's Academic Standards for Health & Wellness, provides the basis to help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. Health education should contribute directly to a student's ability to successfully practice behaviors that protect and promote health and avoid or reduce health risks. Through a variety of instructional strategies, students practice the development of functional health information (essential concepts); determine personal values that support healthy behaviors; develop group norms that value a healthy lifestyle; develop the essential skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors. This course includes the application of priority areas in a planned, sequential, comprehensive health education curriculum. Priority areas include: promoting personal health and wellness, physical activity, healthy eating, promoting safety and preventing unintentional injury and violence, promoting mental and emotional health, a tobacco-free lifestyle and an alcohol- and other drug-free lifestyle and promoting human development and family health. This course provides students with the knowledge and skills of health and wellness core concepts, analyzing influences, accessing information, interpersonal communication, decision-making and goal-setting skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and health and wellness advocacy skills.

Grade 10-12/ Two Semesters/ Elective

This advanced physical education course emphasizes the development and maintenance of physical fitness of the total body through aerobic instruction, individual and team activities/sports, cardiorespiratory endurance, and muscular strength. This course is designed for students of all athletic levels and abilities who desire a physically fit lifestyle.

Grade 10-12/ Two Semesters/ Elective

This advanced physical education course features instruction in the techniques of weight training and conditioning as they pertain to athletic competition. This course involves a physically demanding program of weight training and fitness activities designed to enhance strength, speed, agility, flexibility, jumping, and coordination. This course is designed for students participating in competitive sports and is not designed for those with casual interest.

Grade 10-12/ Semester/ Elective

Introduction to Sports Psychology is designed to help students and student athletes both learn and then apply practical as well as theoretical information as it relates to the psychology of sports. A variety of mental training skills that can enhance one.s holistic athletic performance will be covered. Some of the areas related to this class that will be explored include stress, motivation, goal-setting, confidence, leadership, and visualization. Personality, as it relates to athletic competition, as well as competition in the 'real world' will also be explored.

Grade 10-12/ Semester/ Elective

The course is intended to provide a foundation for those who may desire to coach sports at any level. Through a series of presentations, readings, Internet activities and discussions, the learners will gain insight into the many intangibles of coaching that, until now, could only be learned through the trial and error of experience. Students will be exposed to the teachings of education forefathers and apply them to coaching. Students will be engaged in coaching through practical field experiences out in the community. The course will address the differences in levels of competitive sports, the personal roles that coaches should exhibit, the professional roles expected and the organizational influences on the world of a coach. Students will be able to explain and defend the role of the coach and the appropriate coaching behaviors to utilize with various age groups and abilities.