9th Grade Syllabus

9^th Grade

Foundations of Physical Education

OBJECTIVES

To promote a desire for physical fitness and understanding and how to achieve fitness.
To provide students the opportunity to maintain and increase their level of physical fitness through exposure to a variety of activities.
To promote cooperation and sportsmanship through a variety of activities.
To test and evaluate physical fitness levels.
To encourage an interest in lifetime and team sports and activities.
To enrich skills, rules and strategy of playing sports and activities correctly.
To encourage proper etiquette, concern and care of activities and equipment we utilize.
To develop refusal skills, goal setting, drug awareness as part of drug education.

Physical fitness activities and testing, including fitness gram, weight training and aerobics.
Team sports: basketball, volleyball, softball, lacrosse, football, soccer, floor hockey and other small games.
Lifetime activities: tennis, badminton, golf, archery, pickleball, bowling and other small games.