Health and PE

All students will have weekly health education lessons.  The health education curriculum is designed to teach students how to make healthy choices and equip them with the knowledge and skills to make healthy decisions.  

Elementary Health Resources

• CATCH
• QuaverED
• District Curriculum

The goal of health education is for students to demonstrate an understanding of the components of personal wellness. The health education curriculum is designed to help adolescents develop knowledge, attitudes, and skills to make responsible decisions and act in ways that prevent disease and reduce health-related risky behaviors.

Topics include tobacco/drugs/alcohol abuse prevention, safety, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), human growth and development, personal and social development,nutrition, fitness, mental health, and communicable and non-communicable diseases. 

Middle School Health Resources

• McGraw-Hill – Glencoe Teen Health
• Choosing the Best Path – Abstinence Curriculum (click here to view the program information)  
• Project Alert – Alcohol Education Curriculum
• District Curriculum
• Violence Prevention Programs (click here to view approved violence prevention programs).

The goal of health education is for students to continue to develop an understanding of the components of personal wellness. The curriculum content areas include healthy behaviors, physical activity, nutrition, mental and emotional health, promoting safe and healthy relationships, growth and development, tobacco, alcohol, and drug prevention, and communicable and non-communicable diseases.  

High School Health Resources

• Choosing the Best Journey – Abstinence Curriculum  (click here to view the program information)
• LifeSkills – Alcohol Education Curriculum
• P.A.P.A – Parenting Education Program
• District Curriculum
• Violence Prevention Programs (click here to view approved violence prevention programs).
• McGraw-Hill – Glencoe Health

Elementary PE is a class that teaches students spatial awareness, locomotor skills, manipulative skills and the health benefits of being physically active.   

Elementary PE Resources

• SPARK – Physical Education (PE)
• QuaverED
• District Curriculum

The middle school physical education program offers a variety of activities to enhance the physical and social development of each student. The activities include physical fitness, aerobics, team sports, as well as individual, dual, and lifetime activities.  

Middle School PE Resources

• Spark – Physical Education (PE)
• District Curriculum

High School PE Classes

Skill Based Lifetime Activities: ​The purpose of this course is to encourage students to find skill-based activities that they enjoy and can continue throughout their lifetimes. Students are expected to participate in a wide variety of activities that are skill based in order to achieve fitness and to promote interest in lifetime activities. 

Lifetime Wellness and Fitness Activities: The purpose of this course is to motivate students to strive for lifetime personal fitness with an emphasis on the health-related components of physical fitness. The knowledge and skills taught in this course include teaching students about the process of becoming fit as well as achieving some degree of fitness within the class. The concept of wellness is the cornerstone of this course and is exemplified by one of the course objectives - students designing their own personal fitness program. 

High School PE Resources

• Spark – Physical Education (PE)
• Goodheart-Willcox – Lifetime Fitness & Wellness
• District Curriculum