This innovative new textbook, with a full suite of related
resources, has been created to support student development and
enhancement of healthy behaviors that influence their lifestyle
choices and fitness, health, and wellness. A key feature of this
curriculum is the complete integration of physical education and
health concepts and skills to maximize student interest, learning,
and application. This objective was accomplished by combining the
expertise of our author teams from two related textbooks--Fitness
for Life, Sixth Edition, and Health for Life. This is not just a
health textbook with a few physical education concepts thrown in.
School systems that want a single textbook to help them address
both physical education and health education standards will find
that this book provides them a unique and cost-effective option.
Health Opportunities Through Physical Education is available in
print and digital formats, including an iBooks interactive version
for iPads plus other e-book formats that students can use across a
variety of platforms. Part I, Fitness for Life, will help students
become physically literate individuals who have the knowledge,
skills, and confidence to enjoy a lifetime of healthful physical
activity. The book will guide students in becoming informed
consumers on matters related to lifelong physical activity and
fitness, taking responsibility for setting individualized goals,
and making their own plans for active living. To accomplish this
overarching goal, they learn a variety of self-management skills,
including self-assessment. The program is based on established
educational theory, which is outlined in the teacher web resources.
And they learn all of this through a combination of classroom and
physical activity lessons that meet national, state, and local
physical activity guidelines and help instill a love for lifetime
fitness activities. Part I also enables students to achieve the
following goals: * Meet college and career readiness standards by
learning and using critical thinking, decision making, and
problem-solving skills * Use the Stairway to Lifetime Fitness
concept, created by author Chuck Corbin, to encourage higher-order
learning (move from dependence to independence) * Perform
self-assessments, including all tests in the Fitnessgram battery
and the Presidential Youth Fitness Program Part I includes many
features that actively engage students by allowing them to: *
Assess their own fitness and other health and wellness factors to
determine personal needs and assess progress resulting from healthy
lifestyle planning. * Use Taking Charge and Self-Management
features to learn self-management skills (e.g., goal setting,
self-monitoring, self-planning) for adopting healthy lifestyles. *
Learn key concepts and principles, higher-order information, and
critical thinking skills that provide the basis for sound decision
making and personal planning. * Do reading and writing assignments
as well as calculations that foster college and career readiness. *
Try out activities that are supported by lesson plans offered in
the teacher web resources and that can help students be fit and
active throughout their lives. <
* Take part in real-life activities that show how new information
is generated by using the scientific method. * Become aware of and
use technology to learn new information about fitness, health, and
wellness and learn to discern fact from fiction. * Use the web and
the unique web icon feature to connect to relevant and expanded
content for essential topics in the student web resource. * Find
Academic Connections that relate fitness topics to other parts of
the curriculum such as science, language arts, and math. * Use
other features such as fitness quotes, consumer corner, Fit Facts,
and special exercise features (including exercise and
self-assessment videos) that promote higher-order learning. * Focus
their study time by following cues from Lesson Objectives and
Lesson Vocabulary elements in every chapter. * Use the
chapter-ending review questions to test their understanding of the
concepts and use critical thinking and project assignments to meet
educational standards, including college and career readiness
standards. Part II, Health for Life, teaches high school students
the fundamentals of health and wellness, how to avoid destructive
habits, and how to choose to live healthy lives. This text covers
all aspects of healthy living throughout the life span, including
preventing disease and seeking care; embracing the healthy
lifestyles choices of nutrition and stress management; avoiding
destructive habits; building relationships; and creating healthy
and safe communities. Part II also has an abundance of features
that help students connect with content: * Lesson Objectives,
Lesson Vocabulary, Comprehension Check, and Chapter Review help
students prepare to dive in to the material, understand it, and
retain it . * Connect feature spurs students to analyze various
influences on their health and wellness. * Consumer Corner aids
students in exploring consumer health issues. * Healthy
Communication gets students to use and expand their interpersonal
communication skills as they share their views about various health
topics. * Skills for Healthy Living and Making Healthy Decisions
help students learn and practice self-management so they can make
wise choices related to their health and wellness. * Planning for
Healthy Living assists students in applying what they've learned as
they set goals and establish plans for behavior change. *
Self-Assessment offers students the opportunity to evaluate their
health habits and monitor improvement in health behaviors. * Find
Academic Connections that relate fitness topics to other parts of
the curriculum such as science, language arts, and math. * Take It
Home and Advocacy in Action prepare students to advocate for health
at home and in their communities. * Health Science and Health
Technology focus on the roles of science and technology as they
relate to health and where science and technology intersect
regarding health issues. * Living Well News challenges students to
integrate health literacy, math, and language skills to better
understand a current health issue.
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