Kinetic Wellness

The Kinetic Wellness Department promotes a student-centered, performance-based curriculum model to promote healthy lifestyles for students. The Department incorporates research which shows that physical activity promotes fitness, enhances performance, and increases overall cognitive development. Students are taught why the activities implemented within the classroom support overall well being and a healthy lifestyle, further incentivizing them to participate.

Introduction to Kinetic Wellness

Introduction to Kinetic Wellness

Grade: 9, 10, 11, 12

Credit: 0.5

Course Description: Students will learn to live their healthiest lives possible maximizing their opportunities for healthy living, engagement in physical fitness, and growth as individual leaders. Students will demonstrate knowledge of nutrition, fitness workouts/regimen, and business within the sports arena. Students will also engage in team sports activities in order to maintain and enhance their current fitness levels.

Health Education

Health Education

Grade: 10

Credit: 0.5

Course Description: Students will learn to make decisions and take appropriate action towards leading a healthy, fulfilling life. The class will be introduced to a variety of health related concepts and issues that the students can control towards leading a healthy lifestyle. The students will become aware of basic health concepts such as building/maintaining healthy relationships as well as avoiding situations in which they could acquire disease related illnesses. The course also teaches students how to manage and maintain mental and emotional wellness while making them aware of disease and violence prevention. The material taught in this course is student-centered instruction and appeals to the interests and concepts that students preparing for college may encounter. The students will be able to develop their literacy skills along with skills pertaining to other academic areas through a variety of interdisciplinary learning and journal documenting. The information shared throughout this course will allow the students to be more knowledgeable in a variety of health concepts allowing them to make better decisions in life pertaining to their personal health and wellness.

Physical Education 2, 3, 4

Physical Education 2, 3, 4

Grade: 10, 11, 12

Credit: 0.5

Course Description: This course is an extension to Introduction to Kinetic Wellness (Max Life 1) in which students continue to examine the most proficient practices in living their healthiest life possible. Students will maximize opportunities for healthy living, engagement in physical fitness, and address morality in amateur/professional sports. Students will demonstrate knowledge of nutrition, fitness workouts/regimen, and documented scandals in the world of amateur and professional sports. Students will also engage in team sports activities in order to maintain and enhance their current fitness levels.

Strength Training

Strength Training

Grade: 11, 12

Credit: 0.5

Course Description: This course introduces the students to the concept of strength training and cardiovascular conditioning. Class is conducted using student-centered lectures, demonstration instruction, and student hands-on experience. The class covers different strength building exercises and training workouts in order to build muscular strength and endurance. It also covers a conditioning component that is essential towards strengthening an individual’s level of cardiovascular fitness as well as their respiratory output. Workout routines and different training regimens will also be covered so that an individual is given the tools to create their own fitness workout regimen towards leading a healthy lifestyle. Students will have opportunities to connect concepts learned in this course with concepts introduced in academic content areas such as English, Mathematics, and Health.

Alternative Fitness

Alternative Fitness

Grade: 11, 12 Credit: 0.5

Course Description: Students will learn to implement an appropriate fitness plan to enhance the opportunity of living a healthy lifestyle through the use of non-traditional exercises and fitness activities. The content for this course is focused on three major concepts of fitness including but not limited to cardiovascular fitness, strength training, and overall nutrition. Students will be introduced to a variety of cardiovascular workouts that range from step aerobics to Zumba. The strength training focus will aim towards strengthening the core and building lean muscle in the arms and legs. Lastly, the nutrition portion of this course will teach students how to develop, implement, and maintain a healthy diet. The nutrition concept will be centered around the highly endorsed Food Pyramid which students have been introduced to previously during the DePaul College Prep Health course.

Kinetic Wellness Captains

Kinetic Wellness Captain

Grade: 12 Credit: 0.5

Course Description: Students have an opportunity throughout this course to demonstrate and build on their leadership capabilities and teaching/coaching practices. Students in this class would have already completed the general courses of Kinetic Wellness and look to be aspiring trainers, coaches, or teachers in the future. Students will assist the lead teacher in stretching, warm-ups, instruction, and supervision of a Kinetic Wellness course. Students will lead as instructors, assist as mentors, and participate in the activities during class time. Students in this course are expected to be sociable, responsible, mature, and active participants in the physical education class. They should understand that they are to be a role model to the students that are participating in the regular physical education class. (Students may only take this course if accepted by the Counseling Department and the Kinetic Wellness division head.)