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The goal of Physical Education and Health courses at Lutheran High School is to give students opportunities to develop skills necessary for a lifetime of activity, and to achieve and maintain healthy behaviors to enhance overall health and wellness.

One semester of Physical Education is required for graduation and should be completed by the end of the sophomore year.  Students participate in a variety of activities designed to develop fundamental movement patterns and promote social interaction.  If a student wishes to only take Physical Conditioning, there will be a preliminary test to enter that class. This is an elective where students can continue to develop their flexibility, cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and endurance, balance, agility, speed, and power. Students can take this class multiple years while in high school. 

Lutheran High School offers an Alternative Physical Education Program; participation in an IHSAA sport at Lutheran can be substituted for PE. For details and requirements for the Alternate Physical Education Program, click here.

Students are required to take the semester course Health and Wellness for graduation, which is typically taken during the freshman year.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION/WELLNESS CURRICULUM

PHYSICAL EDUCATION (PE)

Credits:  1 credit

Recommended for Grades:  9 and 10

Prerequisites:  None, required for graduation.

PE emphasizes daily physical activity, achievement of health-enhancing physical fitness, and development of motor skills and movement patterns, so the student can achieve an active lifestyle.  Students will be empowered to make choices, meet challenges and develop positive behaviors towards physical fitness, wellness and movement activity. Through active participation in a wide variety of activities, students will demonstrate their fitness, movement proficiency, responsible personal and social behavior, and come to understand the value of physical activity for health, self-expression, and social interaction. 

Units of instruction include: Introduction to kinesiology and physical education, fitness, individual dual and team physical activities.  Multiple assessment tools will be used to measure student achievement of the Indiana Physical Education Standards. Recognizing that our bodies are temples created by God, this course integrates faith by encouraging students to honor Him through stewardship of their physical health and the cultivation of Christian character.

PHYSICAL CONDITIONING

Credits:  1 credit per semester.  This course may be repeated.

Prerequisites: Physical Education (PE) or test in to the class

This course provides an opportunity for an in-depth study of physical conditioning and provides opportunities for students to develop skills that promote lifelong physical fitness.  Students will participate in a variety of physical training and conditioning activities designed to improve their flexibility, cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, agility, power, speed, balance, and reaction time and learn the concepts behind why these activities condition the body.  Recognizing that our bodies are temples created by God, this course integrates faith by encouraging students to honor Him through stewardship of their physical health and the cultivation of Christian character. This course can be repeated for credit.

 

HEALTH & WELLNESS

Credits:  1 credit, this is a one semester course.

Recommended for Grades: 9 or 10

Prerequisite: None, required for graduation.

Required for graduation, Health & Wellness, a course based on Indiana’s Academic Standards for Health & Wellness, provides the basis to help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors. Total health; spiritual, physical, emotional, and social health will be emphasized. Health education contributes directly to a student’s ability to successfully practice behaviors that protect and promote health and avoid or reduce health risks. Through a variety of instructional strategies, students practice the development of functional health information (essential concepts); determine personal values that support health behaviors; develop group norms that value a healthy lifestyle; develop the essential skills necessary to adopt, practice, and maintain health-enhancing behaviors. Topics include: promoting personal health and wellness, physical activity, healthy eating, promoting safety and preventing unintentional injury and violence, promoting mental and emotional health, a tobacco-free lifestyle and an alcohol- and other drug-free lifestyle and promoting human development and family health. This course provides students with the knowledge and skills of health and wellness core concepts, analyzing influences, accessing information, interpersonal communication, decision-making and goal-setting skills, health-enhancing behaviors, and health and wellness advocacy skills. Special emphasis will be on how spiritual health impacts physical, emotional and social health. Central to this course is the integration of faith, where students explore health not merely as a personal goal, but as a means of stewardship over the life and body that God has provided.