Updated 12/2023
Physical Education
3205 Lifetime Physical Education (Previously P.E. 1)
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
Lifetime Physical Education provides students with the knowledge, experience, and opportunities to participate in individual/dual sports, team sports, lifetime and recreational sports, and fitness-based activities. Lifetime Physical Education emphasizes moving, participating, being fit, playing fairly and valuing physical activity. This class can be repeated.
3026 Health & Wellness
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Health Education/Physical Education/Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
Wellness is defined as the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal. This class teaches student how to pursue an active lifestyle along with making positive health choices. Topics of study include those aspects of wellness reflected in the Colorado Academic Standards for Physical Activity and Comprehensive Health including physical activity; healthy eating; sexual health; health promotion; emotional and social wellness; alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention; violence-free relationships; and safety.
3010 Beginning Weight Training
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
This course is designed to improve muscular strength and endurance. It is designed to be a basic weight-training course, not a bodybuilding course. The students will be introduced to a variety of weight training techniques, methods, and principles. Students will learn the terminology, anatomy and physiology necessary to understand the basic principles behind weight training. Emphasis will be on proper lifting technique, spotting technique, and safety throughout the course. Students will learn to use the available machines, as well as free weights. This class can be repeated.
3012 Advanced Weight Training
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Beginning Weights
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 and 12
This course is open only to those students who have successfully completed a beginning weight training course at this high school. Students will review the techniques, methods and principles presented in the beginning course. Additional training methods will be introduced and practiced. This class can be repeated.
3044 Beginning Dance
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirements: Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
This course will develop and extend the artistic, affective cognitive and psychomotor potential of all levels of dancers. The student will be provided with opportunities to explore, choreograph, organize, evaluate, and perform a variety of dance forms. At FRHS: This course is designed to introduce rhythmic fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle. Activities would include aerobics, step aerobics, Zumba, fitness drumming, and other rhythmic dance and fitness activities. This class can be repeated.
3077 Team Sports
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 and 12
The students will be introduced to the basic skills, strategies and formations needed to play a variety of team sports. Skills will be developed through drill and game situations. Rules, terminology and safety precautions will be presented. Cooperation and the elements of effective teamwork will be stressed in all situations, as well as lifetime movement opportunities. This class can be repeated.
3590 Integrated Physical Education
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
This course is designed to allow able-bodied juniors and seniors to become teaching assistants in adapted physical education. They will be assisting physically and mentally disabled students participating in modified physical education activities. These students will be matched up either one to one or in small groups of special need students to work in conjunction with the paraprofessional aide. At FRHS: This course combines an approximately equal number of students with disabilities and peers without disabilities. Students with disabilities will be paired with a partner. Students are introduced to the basic skills, strategies and formations needed to play a variety of team sports. Skills will be developed through drill and game situations. Rules, terminology and safety precautions will be presented. Cooperation and the elements of effective teamwork will be stressed in all situations. This class can be repeated.
3006 Yoga and Fitness
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
Yoga will be the emphasis in this course. This course will offer students a chance to explore the connection between mind and body and to use this understanding as a basis for a lifelong commitment to wellness. The course is designed to give students an introduction to Yoga as a means of physical and emotional wellness. This course will also include a variety of cardiovascular, strength and flexibility exercises to address all of the health-related fitness components. In addition, Mindfulness practices will also be taught. At FRHS: This course will offer students a chance to explore lifelong commitment to wellness through yoga. The course is designed to give students an introduction to yoga as a means of physical and emotional wellness. This course will also include a variety of cardiovascular, strength and flexibility exercises to address all of the health-related fitness components. This class can be repeated.
3030 Sports Medicine
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 and Level 2 courses
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 11 & 12
This course provides an opportunity for the study and application of the components of sports medicine including but not limited to: sports medicine related careers, organizational and administrative considerations, prevention of athletic injuries, recognition, evaluation, and immediate care of athletic injuries, rehabilitation and management skills, taping and wrapping techniques, first aid/CPR/AED, emergency procedures, nutrition, sports psychology, human anatomy and physiology, therapeutic modalities, and therapeutic exercises.
3600 Adventure Physical Education
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 and Level 2 courses
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 11 & 12
This class will address intermediate or highly skilled individuals who wish to continue with traditional activities in an advanced level, as well as being exposed to new and non-traditional sports. Past examples of classes include wall climbing, mountain bike, polo, archery, scuba diving, ropes course, and orienteering. At FRHS: “Adventure Ed” is an elective designed to promote lifelong fitness. Students will be introduced to a variety of sports and activities that promote an active healthy lifestyle such as Ultimate Frisbee, Frisbee Golf, Street Hockey, Biking, Rock Climbing, Kayaking, Paddle boarding, and Scuba Diving. Students will be required to wear clothing appropriate for the activities. [Students must provide or have access to transportation (driver’s license is recommended). Fees will be charged to cover field trip expenses and students will be expected to provide their own bike and helmet. This class does not meet a graduation requirement.]
3032 Sports Officiating
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirement(s): Elective
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
This sports officiating course will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to serve as a referee, umpire, judge, or other official for a sports contest, emphasizing rule interpretation and the proper mechanics of officiating.
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
Lifetime Physical Education provides students with the knowledge, experience, and opportunities to participate in individual/dual sports, team sports, lifetime and recreational sports, and fitness-based activities. Lifetime Physical Education emphasizes moving, participating, being fit, playing fairly and valuing physical activity. This class can be repeated.
3026 Health & Wellness
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Health Education/Physical Education/Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
Wellness is defined as the quality or state of being in good health especially as an actively sought goal. This class teaches student how to pursue an active lifestyle along with making positive health choices. Topics of study include those aspects of wellness reflected in the Colorado Academic Standards for Physical Activity and Comprehensive Health including physical activity; healthy eating; sexual health; health promotion; emotional and social wellness; alcohol, tobacco, and drug prevention; violence-free relationships; and safety.
3010 Beginning Weight Training
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
This course is designed to improve muscular strength and endurance. It is designed to be a basic weight-training course, not a bodybuilding course. The students will be introduced to a variety of weight training techniques, methods, and principles. Students will learn the terminology, anatomy and physiology necessary to understand the basic principles behind weight training. Emphasis will be on proper lifting technique, spotting technique, and safety throughout the course. Students will learn to use the available machines, as well as free weights. This class can be repeated.
3012 Advanced Weight Training
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Beginning Weights
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 and 12
This course is open only to those students who have successfully completed a beginning weight training course at this high school. Students will review the techniques, methods and principles presented in the beginning course. Additional training methods will be introduced and practiced. This class can be repeated.
3044 Beginning Dance
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirements: Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
This course will develop and extend the artistic, affective cognitive and psychomotor potential of all levels of dancers. The student will be provided with opportunities to explore, choreograph, organize, evaluate, and perform a variety of dance forms. At FRHS: This course is designed to introduce rhythmic fitness as part of a healthy lifestyle. Activities would include aerobics, step aerobics, Zumba, fitness drumming, and other rhythmic dance and fitness activities. This class can be repeated.
3077 Team Sports
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 and 12
The students will be introduced to the basic skills, strategies and formations needed to play a variety of team sports. Skills will be developed through drill and game situations. Rules, terminology and safety precautions will be presented. Cooperation and the elements of effective teamwork will be stressed in all situations, as well as lifetime movement opportunities. This class can be repeated.
3590 Integrated Physical Education
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
This course is designed to allow able-bodied juniors and seniors to become teaching assistants in adapted physical education. They will be assisting physically and mentally disabled students participating in modified physical education activities. These students will be matched up either one to one or in small groups of special need students to work in conjunction with the paraprofessional aide. At FRHS: This course combines an approximately equal number of students with disabilities and peers without disabilities. Students with disabilities will be paired with a partner. Students are introduced to the basic skills, strategies and formations needed to play a variety of team sports. Skills will be developed through drill and game situations. Rules, terminology and safety precautions will be presented. Cooperation and the elements of effective teamwork will be stressed in all situations. This class can be repeated.
3006 Yoga and Fitness
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: None
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 9, 10, 11 & 12
Yoga will be the emphasis in this course. This course will offer students a chance to explore the connection between mind and body and to use this understanding as a basis for a lifelong commitment to wellness. The course is designed to give students an introduction to Yoga as a means of physical and emotional wellness. This course will also include a variety of cardiovascular, strength and flexibility exercises to address all of the health-related fitness components. In addition, Mindfulness practices will also be taught. At FRHS: This course will offer students a chance to explore lifelong commitment to wellness through yoga. The course is designed to give students an introduction to yoga as a means of physical and emotional wellness. This course will also include a variety of cardiovascular, strength and flexibility exercises to address all of the health-related fitness components. This class can be repeated.
3030 Sports Medicine
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 and Level 2 courses
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 11 & 12
This course provides an opportunity for the study and application of the components of sports medicine including but not limited to: sports medicine related careers, organizational and administrative considerations, prevention of athletic injuries, recognition, evaluation, and immediate care of athletic injuries, rehabilitation and management skills, taping and wrapping techniques, first aid/CPR/AED, emergency procedures, nutrition, sports psychology, human anatomy and physiology, therapeutic modalities, and therapeutic exercises.
3600 Adventure Physical Education
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 and Level 2 courses
Meets requirement(s): Wellness
Open to Grades: 11 & 12
This class will address intermediate or highly skilled individuals who wish to continue with traditional activities in an advanced level, as well as being exposed to new and non-traditional sports. Past examples of classes include wall climbing, mountain bike, polo, archery, scuba diving, ropes course, and orienteering. At FRHS: “Adventure Ed” is an elective designed to promote lifelong fitness. Students will be introduced to a variety of sports and activities that promote an active healthy lifestyle such as Ultimate Frisbee, Frisbee Golf, Street Hockey, Biking, Rock Climbing, Kayaking, Paddle boarding, and Scuba Diving. Students will be required to wear clothing appropriate for the activities. [Students must provide or have access to transportation (driver’s license is recommended). Fees will be charged to cover field trip expenses and students will be expected to provide their own bike and helmet. This class does not meet a graduation requirement.]
3032 Sports Officiating
Credits: 5
Prerequisites: Completion of any Level 1 course
Meets requirement(s): Elective
Open to Grades: 10, 11 & 12
This sports officiating course will provide students with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to serve as a referee, umpire, judge, or other official for a sports contest, emphasizing rule interpretation and the proper mechanics of officiating.