PHYSICAL EDUCATION 10 COURSE OUTLINE Teacher: Mrs. I. Bauer Office Phone: 403-948-4360 ext. 5362 Office Hours: 8:00am - 4:00pm E-mail: baueri@rvvs.com Program Rationale: Alberta's vision for education focuses on students and their ability to achieve their individual potential, creating a positive future for themselves, as well as enhancing their quality of life. The objective of this course is to help you learn the value of physical activity and how to integrate it into your daily lives. This is achieved through an emphasis on active living. This course is designed to encourage you to be active and enjoy physical activity. Curriculum General and Specific Outcomes: The aim of the physical education program is to enable individuals to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to lead an active, healthy lifestyle. This will be achieved through the following four general outcomes: General Outcome A: (ACTIVITIES) Students will acquire skills through a variety of developmentally appropriate movement activities; in an alternative environment; i.e., aquatics and outdoor pursuits; and dance, games, types of gymnastics and individual activities. Basic Skills Application of Basic Skills General Outcome B: (BENEFITS HEALTH) Students will understand, experience and appreciate the health benefits that result from physical activity. Functional Fitness Body image Well-being
General Outcome C: (COOPERATION) Students will interact positively with others. Communication Fair Play Leadership Teamwork General Outcome D: (DO IT DAILY...FOR LIFE) Students will assume responsibility to lead an active way of life. Effort Safety Goal Setting/Personal Challenge Active Living in the Community Content: The five-credit program requires 125 hours of time devoted to physical education. The outcomes listed above are to be achieved through a number of different activities in the following dimensions: alternative environment, dance, games, gymnastics, and individual activities. In order to complete a balanced physical education program, students must complete a minimun of 15 hours in each dimension. Students will be credited with no more than 40 hours of activity in each dimension. The following are lists of possible activities for each dimension. Should you have another activity that is not listed here, please discuss it with Mrs. Bauer. Alternative Environment Activities: Aquatics (survival techniques, stroke development, snorkeling, water games, diving, synchronized, swimming, water safety), Water Based (canoeing, rowing, kayaking, sailing, sailboarding, water skiing, scuba diving), Outdoor Pursuits (hiking, backpacking, climbing, camping (time spent being active only), orienteering, snowshoeing, skiing, snowboarding, skating (ice, inline), horseback riding, cycling, tobogganing, luge. Dance Activities: Rhythmic 'Creative' (aerobic dance, interpretive, modern), Multicultural (folk, square), Contemporary Social (line, jive, partner, country and western), Jazz (traditional hip hop, funk), Ballroom Social (waltz, fox trot, tango, two step, polka). Note: The local library is a great place to find dance dvds that you can borrow and bring home to practice new types of dances.
Gymnastics Activities: Rhythmic Gymnastics (hoop, ball, ribbon, clubs, scarf, rope, lummi sticks, gymnic balls), Artistic Gymnastics (uneven bars, parallel bars, high bar, vault box, pommel horse, rings, balance beam), Acrobatic (stuntnastics, tumbling, balance/pyramids), Educational Gymnastics, Floor and Large Equipment: (balances, travels, shapes, suspensions, flight rotations, sequence development), yoga, stretching (must be accompanied with a stretching routine noting a minimum of 10 stretches with a description of each stretch and which muscles are stretched), core conditioning exercises using large gym balls (must be accompanied with a detailed description of each exercise). Games Activities: Innovative (creative or novel, initiative tasks, cooperative, challenge, multicultural), Target (archery, bocci, bowling, curling, golf, trap shooting, croquet, horseshoes, frisbee type), Net and Wall (volleyball, tennis, badminton, pickleball, table tennis, handball, netball, racquetball, squash, asian foot volleyball, lacrosse (box), tchouck), Goal Oriented (softball, cricket or rounders, soccer, basketball, touch football, hockey type (field, floor, ice), team handball, lacrosse (field), rugby, broomball, ringette, frisbee, omnikin). Individual Activities: Athletics (Track and Field) (running, jumping, throwing events), Combatives (fencing, wrestling, self-defense), Individual (juggling, skipping), Movement Arts (Tai Chi, Yoga), Tranining Program (aerobics, rope jumping, walking, jogging, lap swimming, cycling/mountain biking, use of exercise equipment, weight training, inline skating, circuit plyometrics, triathlon). Important! If there are activities that you would like to count for your PE time that are not listed, make sure you check with your teacher for approval. Do not assume that ALL types of activity will be permitted (ie. such as work related activity, cleaning etc). Restricted Activities: The following activities may not be counted for your PE program based on safety guidelines established by Alberta Ed: Aerial gymnastics (inversions) American gladiator-style events Auto racing Bicycle motocross (BMX) Boxing or kick boxing Bungee jumping Caving (spelunking) Demolition derbies Drag racing Activities involving dunk tanks
Hang gliding, paragliding, parachuting, sky-diving Horse jumping Hot air balloon rides Ice climbing Mechanical bull riding Motorcycling of any nature Mountain scrambling and technical mountaineering Activities involving firearms including winter biathlon Rodeo events Use of trampolines White water canoeing White water kayaking White water rafting Open water scuba diving In addition, please note that you may not count time for: playing video games or games on the Wii pool (billiards) Paintball and laser tag Safety Guidelines: Alberta Education has published a document called Safety Guidelines for Physical Activity in Alberta Schools. It is important that you adhere to the safety guidelines that are outlined in this document. RVVS is unique in that students design, organize and participate in their own activities. Since I am not always aware of the environment that you are exercising in, the safety guidelines provide some important feedback to you so that you can participate in an activity that is safe. What I would like you to do, is review the activities that you do regularly in the safety guidelines document and make sure that you are paying attention to the safety guidelines. When you try a new or different activity, make sure you quickly read the blurb in the safety guidelines document. If you do this regularly, and follow the recommendations for each activity, you will be meeting the safety outcome in the curriculum and you will be able to check this off when you submit your activity record. This is how you can access the information that you need: Here is the link to the web site: http://www.med.ualberta.ca/acicr/ Please bookmark this site under your favourites.
When you enter the site, on the left side of the screen (in black), please click on documents and reports. The second item in the list is Safety Guidelines for Physical Activity in Alberta Schools. Please click on it. This is an adobe document. At the beginning of the document is a table of contents that tells you what page your activity is on. Each document has information on Equipment/Facilities, Instructional Considerations (most of this information is directed to teachers, however, there may be some safety info there for you), and Supervision. Units of Study: Unit of Study Unit 1: Safety Unit 2: Active Living Unit 3: Games Unit 4: Basic Skills Time Line Sem 1 - September Sem 2 - February Sem 1 - Oct, Nov. Sem 2 - March, April Sem 1 - Dec. Sem 2 - May Sept. 1 - January Sem 2 - June Evaluation: Activity Record... 47% Mark for attending a minimum of one school activity... 3% Exams...... 20% Assignments...... 20% Heart Saver First Aid Course Completion...10%
Activity Record: The majority of your mark will based on your "Activity Record" which will be due every two weeks. It is in the Activity Record that students will provide detailed information on the activities that they have done, set goals, reflect on their fitness, and note the time spent being active. The Activity Record must then be checked over and verified by the key parent and e-mailed to Mrs. Bauer from the key parent e-mail account. If the key parent does not authorize the activities, the student will not receive credit for the hours spent. Students should also keep an ongoing record of the number of hours of activity they have completed in each dimension so that they can track their own progress. Your activity record will be marked out of 15 marks. (10 marks will be given for completing 1 hour and 15 minutes of daily physical activity and 5 marks will be given for completing the Activity Record questions thoroughly). Please note that you should record any activity that you do...even if it does not amount to 1 hr and 15 minutes per school day. Any time that you do will count towards your mark. For example, if a student completes 1 hr and 15 mins. of activity per school day, they will receive 10/10 on time component in their Activity Record mark for that time period. If a student does 1 hr. of physical activity per school day, they could earn 8/10. Likewise, if a student only did 37 minutes of activity per school day, they could earn 5/10 on their time component mark. Students may also count time spent being active on nonschool days (ie. the weekend) and count that time in lieu of physical activity time during the school week. This flexibility may assist students with a rigid schedule. CPR (Level A) Certification: A requirement for the PE10 course is that you complete a Level A CPR course. This is a four hour course that is offered by the Red Cross and St. Johns. If you already have current certification in Level A CPR or better (eg. Standard First Aid), you do not have to retake the course -- you just need to fax a copy of your certification to me before the end of the semester. In the Level A CPR course, students learn the first aid skills necessary to help somone who does not have an airway or a pulse.
A Level A CPR course will be offered at the RVVS office in Airdrie this semester. If you are unable to attend the course, you will need to take a course on your own through a first aid provider such as Red Cross or St. Johns at your own expense. Check your schedule/calendar and note the date of the Heart Saver course this semester. Exams: Students will be notified in advance of an exam date. It is expected that an exam will be completed between 8am and 10pm on the day it is issued or a mark of zero will be assigned. There is not a final exam in PE10. Late Deductions: Students are encouraged to submit their assignments on the due dates which are noted in the course schedule. At the teacher's discretion, if an assignment is handed in late, the penalty is as follows: 1 day - less 10% 2 day - less 20% 3 day - less 30% More than 3 days late - Students may hand in an assignment 3 days beyond the due date, however, they will only receive 40% of the full mark as "completion marks". Important -- Activity records that are submitted over two weeks late will receive a mark of zero and will not be counted toward the student's activity hours. Marks You are encouraged to regularly check your marks which will be emailed to you weekly in a progress report. You can access your marks by checking the marks and comments for marked assignments in the drop box. "Ex" - excused. This means that this particular assignment or test does not count for or against the student and is NOT part of the weighted average. Receiving an "excused" for an assignment is at the teacher's discretion ONLY and this occurs very rarely. "Miss" = a mark of zero. This means that the assignment or test was not completed at all.
E-mail & Drop Box Assignments for lessons should be submitted through the drop box. Students are asked to complete their assignments in a word document and then to attach it to the drop box. Please label your word documents with the assignment's name followed by the user name. eg. PE10U1L1ibauer. If you have a question for your teacher, indicate this in your subject window of your email as follows: PE10Question. It is important that you indicate that you have a question so that your email does not get filtered which may cause a delay in your teacher's reply. Textbooks: There is not an assigned text for PE10. However, other readings and resources will be made available to students when required. How RVVS Physical Education Works: As noted above, the goal is for you to complete 125 hours of time devoted to Physical Education. In doing so, you will need to complete a minimum of 15 hours in each of the dimensions noted above and will be credited with no more than 40 hours in a dimension. It is therefore important for you to plan your activities so that you participate in a balanced physical education program. In addition, you will need to become familiar with the general and specific outcomes noted above. Activities that you participate in should meet one or more of those outcomes. As a requirement in this course, you will be expected to complete a number of activities from the Alberta Education "Physical Education Home Schooling" website shown below. Alberta Education Home Schooling Web Site http://education.alberta.ca/physicaleducationonline/homeeducation/student/in dex.htm
You will be expected to complete 1 hour and 15 minutes of activity on each school day, as 'daily physical education' is a curriculum requirement. It is in your Activity Record (noted above) that you will record all of the activities that you have completed and explain to me the outcomes that you feel that activity has addressed. This is how the teacher is able to monitor your progress throughout the course. You will be given a sample Activity Record to look at at the beginning of the semester to clarify how it is to be filled out. In addition to physical exercise, you will be expected to complete assigned lessons, assignments and tests. You will be informed in advance of what these are. Numerous activities have been scheduled for students to participate in around the city. These will be informal gatherings, designed to meet some of your fellow classmates while engaging in a physical activity. All students are encouraged to attend these sessions if possible. You must attend a minimum of one of these activities sometime in the semester. Further information will be forwarded to you regarding these activities. Good Luck and Enjoy Your Semester!! :-)