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COURSE OVERVIEW:
This course provides students with opportunities to experience
personal fitness through assessment, individualized program design,
use of leisure time, and lifetime sports skills. Emphasis is placed on
improving or maintaining physical fitness and teaching self awareness.
Individualized assistance is given in skill related activities and
fitness programming.
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UNITS OF INSTRUCTION:
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| UNIT I |
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Weight Training |
| UNIT II |
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Cardiovascular Fitness |
| UNIT III |
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Leisure Skills |
| UNIT IV |
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Lifetime Sports |
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COURSE OUTCOMES:
- Improve or maintain physical fitness.
- Acquaint students with the basic principles of
exercise.
- Increase ones own body awareness.
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UNIQUE/SPECIAL
STUDENTS RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THIS COURSE:
- Participate in class activities; individually and
in groups.
- Dress daily in required physical education uniform.
- Apply effort to physical fitness training and
assessments.
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ADOPTED TEXT OR
PRINCIPAL MATERIALS USED:
- Corbin and Lindsey. Fitness For Life.
Glenview, Illinois: Scott, Foresman & Co., 1993.
- Rimmer, James Ph. D. Adapted PE Activities for
Special Students. DeKalb, Illinois: Department of Physical
Education/College of Education, 1994.
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