HEALTH & FITNESS 1: HEALTH/FITNESS SWIMMING (Grades 9 or 10)

HEALTH & FITNESS 1: HEALTH/FITNESS SWIMMING (Grades 9 or 10)
(HPE7004, HPE7005, HPE7006)

This fitness based course is required by all students to be taken either in 9th or 10th grade. The students will alternate classes between health, fitness, and swimming. This course provides students with classroom instruction dealing with a variety of current health related issues.  Topics will include physical fitness, body systems, wellness, drugs/alcohol and tobacco, and variety of fitness activities, including muscular strength and endurance training, circuit training, and cardiovascular endurance training. The swimming section of the course is based upon skill level and geared toward aquatic safety, stroke development, and/or refinement.  Please refer to the chart below to help aide in deciding which course is most appropriate for course selection. The health component for all three swimming levels is the same.     

1. LEVEL 1 (BEG SWIM)

   • Limited/no prior swimming experience
   • Needs/requires a floatation device to swim/float in the deep end
   • Focused primarily on basic stroke development and survival swimming

2. LEVEL 2 (INT SWIM)

   • Can comfortably swim four widths of freestyle and backstroke in the shallow and deep ends without a flotation device
   • Focused primarily on stroke technique and refinement
   • Students will gain additional survival swimming skills

3. LEVEL 3 (ADV SWIM)

   • Potential high school swim team member
   • Advanced in swimming freestyle, backstroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke, and breaststroke
   • Focused primarily on fitness based aquatic skills         
   • Students will gain the skills to prepare them for the lifeguarding course.