Physical education emphasizes the importance of teamwork, cooperation, communication, responsibility, positive attitude, effort, participation, and skill performance. Units taught in this course include team, individual, and lifetime sports, as well as a strong focus on personal fitness. This course provides the students with the opportunity to participate in a variety of experiences that contribute to a healthy lifestyle and allows the students to gain an understanding of how personal behavior impacts the ability to balance lifelong fitness.

Units include football, frisbee, soccer, tennis, basketball, floor hockey, challenge/team building games, badminton, pickleball, volleyball, lacrosse, softball, and other recreational games. In addition to these activities, fitness-specific activities include yoga, pilates, step aerobics, Dance Dance Revolution, physical fitness testing (Presidential or FitnessGram), agilities and plyometrics, stability ball exercises, Tae-Bo, walking/hiking, and dance.

The Wellness portion of this course addresses health and wellness as it relates to the “Health Triangle.” Students will discuss issues dealing with mental health such as anxiety, fears, and stress as well as social problems dealing with family and peers including abuse, harassment, bullying, and cyberbullying. Students will study the systems of the body with a focus on problems and prevention of diseases. Students also will study the reproductive system with an emphasis on puberty and body changes. Alcohol, tobacco products, marijuana, OTC and prescription drugs will be discussed along with refusal strategies.