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** Health and Human Performance Curriculum **

__**Course Description**__ - This course is designed to firmly lay the foundation for a physically active and healthy lifestyle, so that students become independent learners who initiate and monitor their own participation in physical activity and fitness progress. This course utilizes components associated with both health-related and skill-related practices and techniques. To accomplish the goals of the curriculum such components include, fitness and conditioning, resistance training, basic yoga practices, nutrition, alcohol/drug and tobacco awareness, disease prevention, life-saving skills, and much more. Lastly, it is the intent of this course to provide a safe and positive environment which will meet students’ interest and skill levels so they may thrive individually, as well as with their peers.

 **Standard #1** Students demonstrate knowledge of and competency in motor skills, movement patterns, and strategies needed to perform a variety of physical activities. ** Standard #2 ** Students achieve a level of physical fitness for health and performance while demonstrating knowledge of fitness concepts, principles, and strategies. Standard #11 Students demonstrate knowledge of psychological and sociological concepts, principles, and strategies that apply to the learning and performance of physical activity.