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Course Information

PE Course 1
Physical Education Course 1 is designed to provide physical activity that promotes fitness, wellness, movement skills and knowledge, social interaction and development, self-image, self realizations, and the opportunity to reach individual excellence. The focus is on the Skill Related Components of Fitness and how they relate to different activities. Students have an opportunity to discover, apply, and improve these skills in a variety of activities. Students also discover how their own individual skill strengths and weaknesses affect their performance in, and enjoyment of different activities.

Possible Activity Units:
Dance
Pickleball
Volley Tennis / Tennis
Ultimate Frisbee
Lacrosse
Flag Football
Track and Field
Golf
Archery
Lawn Games
Aquatics/Swimming

Fitness Instruction:
Testing:
VO2 Max: PACER, 1 Mile Run, 1 Mile Walk
Push Ups
Curl Ups
Flexibility

Fitness opportunities:
Fitness Center
Weight Room
Track
Gym

PE Course 2
Physical Education Course 2 provides students with the tools necessary to maintain health promoting levels of physical fitness throughout their lives. Students in Course 2 are expected to actively participate in and develop skill, rule, and strategy proficiency in a variety of activities with an understanding of their effects on fitness. Students are expected to learn, and apply, research based concepts that affect personal fitness in

each of the five Health Related Components of Fitness (HRCOF) including various techniques of measurement and evaluation and the minimum requirements of each in order to maintain and enhance health and fitness. Students will also work to achieve and/or maintain health promoting levels of physical fitness.

Possible Activity Units:
Aquatics/Swimming
Badminton
Ultimate Frisbee
Volleyball
Soccer
Basketball
Hockey
Softball
Speed Away
Self Defense
Lawn Games

Fitness Instruction:
Testing:
VO2 Max: PACER, 1 Mile Run, 1 Mile Walk
Push Ups
Curl Ups
Flexibility

Fitness opportunities:
Fitness Center
Weight Room
Track
Gym

Performance PE
Performance Physical Education is intended for students serious and dedicated to achieving an advanced level of fitness beyond the Fitnessgram healthy fitness zone requirements. The course is designed using a functional training model to develop muscular strength, power, core strength, stability, mobility, speed, agility and quickness, as well as decreasing the risk of injury. This is a non-recreational course which demands a strong work ethic and is designed for the student who desires to perform at the highest level. Students will be placed in a class to meet their sport-specific needs if they are a participant in CIF sports offered through the NHS athletics department.

Daily Workouts:
Weight room: Olympic and Power Lifts
Fitness center: Mobility and total body fitness
Gym/Track: Conditioning and performance testing

Athletics:
Students enrolled in Performance PE are able to use this time to attend practices and competitions with their coaches who are available during 6th period.

Independent Study PE (CTE and AVID Only)
The Nipomo High School Independent Study Physical Education course will help students feel empowered as they create a personalized health and fitness program for themselves, along with learning the components of fitness. Throughout the course, students will: Participate in pre and post fitness assessments: 2-3 times a semester; Set Individualized goals; Create a workout log that caters to your fitness level, your goals, interests, and schedules; Practice applying proper training principles and techniques; Continually monitor and evaluate progress; Complete additional assignments, discussions, and quizzes

  • PE Course 1
    Physical Education Course 1 is designed to provide physical activity that promotes fitness, wellness, movement skills and knowledge, social interaction and development, self-image, self realizations, and the opportunity to reach individual excellence. The focus is on the Skill Related Components of Fitness and how they relate to different activities. Students have an opportunity to discover, apply, and improve these skills in a variety of activities. Students also discover how their own individual skill strengths and weaknesses affect their performance in, and enjoyment of different activities.

    Possible Activity Units:
    Dance
    Pickleball
    Volley Tennis / Tennis
    Ultimate Frisbee
    Lacrosse
    Flag Football
    Track and Field
    Golf
    Archery
    Lawn Games
    Aquatics/Swimming

    Fitness Instruction:
    Testing:
    VO2 Max: PACER, 1 Mile Run, 1 Mile Walk
    Push Ups
    Curl Ups
    Flexibility

    Fitness opportunities:
    Fitness Center
    Weight Room
    Track
    Gym

  • PE Course 2
    Physical Education Course 2 provides students with the tools necessary to maintain health promoting levels of physical fitness throughout their lives. Students in Course 2 are expected to actively participate in and develop skill, rule, and strategy proficiency in a variety of activities with an understanding of their effects on fitness. Students are expected to learn, and apply, research based concepts that affect personal fitness in

    each of the five Health Related Components of Fitness (HRCOF) including various techniques of measurement and evaluation and the minimum requirements of each in order to maintain and enhance health and fitness. Students will also work to achieve and/or maintain health promoting levels of physical fitness.

    Possible Activity Units:
    Aquatics/Swimming
    Badminton
    Ultimate Frisbee
    Volleyball
    Soccer
    Basketball
    Hockey
    Softball
    Speed Away
    Self Defense
    Lawn Games

    Fitness Instruction:
    Testing:
    VO2 Max: PACER, 1 Mile Run, 1 Mile Walk
    Push Ups
    Curl Ups
    Flexibility

    Fitness opportunities:
    Fitness Center
    Weight Room
    Track
    Gym

  • Performance PE
    Performance Physical Education is intended for students serious and dedicated to achieving an advanced level of fitness beyond the Fitnessgram healthy fitness zone requirements. The course is designed using a functional training model to develop muscular strength, power, core strength, stability, mobility, speed, agility and quickness, as well as decreasing the risk of injury. This is a non-recreational course which demands a strong work ethic and is designed for the student who desires to perform at the highest level. Students will be placed in a class to meet their sport-specific needs if they are a participant in CIF sports offered through the NHS athletics department.

    Daily Workouts:
    Weight room: Olympic and Power Lifts
    Fitness center: Mobility and total body fitness
    Gym/Track: Conditioning and performance testing

    Athletics:
    Students enrolled in Performance PE are able to use this time to attend practices and competitions with their coaches who are available during 6th period.

  • Independent Study PE (CTE and AVID Only)
    The Nipomo High School Independent Study Physical Education course will help students feel empowered as they create a personalized health and fitness program for themselves, along with learning the components of fitness. Throughout the course, students will: Participate in pre and post fitness assessments: 2-3 times a semester; Set Individualized goals; Create a workout log that caters to your fitness level, your goals, interests, and schedules; Practice applying proper training principles and techniques; Continually monitor and evaluate progress; Complete additional assignments, discussions, and quizzes