Bloomingdale High School – Hope

Mar 2026 · 2nd Semester

The purpose of this course is to develop and enhance healthy behaviors that influence lifestyle choices and student health and fitness. This course will meet the graduation requirement for Physical Education with the integration of health topics. The content includes applying fitness and health concepts, analyzing of health related fitness components (FITNESSGRAM), risk and benefits of varying fitness levels, biomechanical and physiological principles, development of an individual wellness plan, responsible decision making, development of an individual nutrition plan, completion of a behavior change project, analyzing of skills-related fitness, safety and injury prevention (hydration, injury, violence, environmental issues, CPR), mental and emotional health, including depression and suicide, stress management, coping skills, disease prevention and control (risk factor assessments, includes communicable and non-communicable diseases such as HIV/AIDS, other STDs, heart disease, diabetes, cancers, asthma), tobacco, alcohol, and other drug use and abuse factors, teen pregnancy prevention, advocating for health and fitness promotion and technology application to facilitate health and fitness.