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Course Description: This is a semester-long course designed to improve health, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility through walking, and to give students an appreciation of the role regular physical activity plays in the quality of life. Students will learn basic cardiovascular system anatomy and physiology, as well as flexibility exercises for major muscle groups. Physical fitness levels will be measured at the beginning and end of the course, allowing students to notice the improvements regular exercise produces. Course topics also includes injury prevention specific to fitness walking.
A. PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES (PLOs):
The student will be able to:
1. Determine healthy lifestyles by describing the value of physical activity to a healthful
lifestyle and participating in regular physical activity for at least one semester.
2. Demonstrate professionalism, interpersonal skills, teamwork,
leadership and decision making skills.
B. STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES (SLOs): GENERAL
The student will be able to:
disease prevention, and athletic performance and value regular physical activity and its
contribution to a healthful lifestyle.
PLO |
SLO1 |
SLO2 |
SLO3 |
SLO4 |
1 |
ID |
DM |
ID |
ID |
2 |
ID |
IDM |
ID |
I |
I = Introduced
D = Demonstrated
M = Mastered
The student will be able to:
General SLO1. Explain physical fitness and wellness, as well as their importance to
overall health, disease prevention, and athletic performance and value regular physical
activity and its contribution to a healthful lifestyle.
Student Learning Outcomes |
Assessment Strategies |
1.1 List and explain the five factors of physical fitness. Identify and describe the basic components of wellness and physical fitness |
Quiz, Test items |
1.2 Identify the major components of the cardiovascular system. |
Quiz, Test items |
1.3 Identify the location of the major muscle groups on their own bodies. |
Assessment questionnaire |
1.4 Explain the importance of warm-up, formal activity, warm down and stretching. |
Individual oral and written report |
1.5 Explain the components of the acronym FITT: Frequency, Intensity, Time and Type. |
Test items |
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General SLO 2. Identify fitness components and perform the physical tests to determine
strengths and weaknesses necessary to perform a variety of physical activities.
Student Learning Outcomes |
Assessment Strategies |
measurements on resting heart rate, blood pressure, cardiovascular endurance (via Rockport One-mile walk test), erector spinae/hamstrings flexibility (via a sit and reach test), and percent body fat, accurately describe the changes in their fitness from the beginning of the course to the end of the course. |
Quiz, Test items |
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Quiz, Test items |
2.3 Perform flexibility exercises for each of the |
Practicum with rubrics |
check-ups play in lifetime fitness and wellness. |
Individual oral and written report |
General SLO 3. Design and demonstrate exercise regimes appropriate to improve health,
physical fitness, and athletic performance.
Student Learning Outcomes |
Assessment Strategies |
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Quiz, Test items |
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Quiz, Test items |
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Assessment questionnaire |
anaerobic activities. |
Individual oral and written report |
injuries (e.g. sprains, strains, heat exhaustion, blisters, corns & stress fractures), preventative measures, and basic treatment in a written format. |
Quiz, Test items |
General SLO 4. Demonstrate the values and effect of walking skills needed to gain
wellness, physical fitness and to maintain healthy lifestyle.
Student Learning Outcomes |
Assessment Strategies |
4.1 Compare the training heart beat upon finishing a |
Quiz, Test items |
4.2 Express how regular physical activity makes |
Assessment questionnaire |
4.3 Participate actively in the school and government |
Monitor by attendance |
2. Five Factors of Physical Fitness
3. Delayed Onset Muscular Soreness
4. Anatomy of cardiovascular system
5. Aerobic exercise
6. Calculating Target Heart Rate Zones
7. FITT principle
8. Importance of warm-up/cool-down
9. Interval training
10. Improving Flexibility
11. Anatomy of the lower body
12. Interval training
13. Review previous concepts
15. Injury Prevention
16. Benefits of Cardiovascular Fitness
17. Health & Wellness
18. Nutrition
19. Fitness assessments – post-tests
Demonstration, participation, lecture, individual assignments, group work. Assessment
will be in the form of attendance/participation in class exercises, individual assignments,
homework and quizzes given throughout the semester.
G. REFERENCE MATERIALS
Current publications and periodicals of relevance to Walking for Health and Fitness
None
J.CREDIT BY EXAMINATION
None
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