2008 09 Calendar.indd - Algoma District School Board

Health & Physical Education
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Girls Personal and Fitness Acvies Grade 11, Open (PAF3O)
This course focuses on the development of a healthy lifestyle and parcipaon in a variety of enjoyable physical acvies that have
the potenal to engage students’ interest throughout their lives. Students will be encouraged to develop personal competence
in a variety of movement skills and will be given opportunies to pracse goal-seng, decision-making, social, and interpersonal
skills. Students will also study the components of healthy relaonships, reproducve health, mental health, and personal safety.
Prerequisite: None Elliot Lake only
Outdoor Acvies, Grade 11, Open (PAD3O)
This course focuses on the development of a personalized approach to healthy acve living through parcipaon in a variety of
outdoor acvies that have the potenal to engage students’ interest throughout their lives. Students will develop and implement
personal physical fitness plans. In addion, they will be given opportunies to refine their decision-making, conflict-resoluon,
and interpersonal skills, with a view to enhancing their mental health and their relaonships with others. Prerequisite: None
Michipicoten only
Healthy Acve Living Educaon, Grade 11 Open (PPL3O)
This course focuses on the development of a healthy lifestyle and parcipaon in a variety of enjoyable physical acvies that have
the potenal to engage students’ interest throughout their lives. Students will be encouraged to develop personal competence
in a variety of movement skills and will be given opportunies to pracse goal-seng, decision-making, social, and interpersonal
skills. Students will also study the components of healthy relaonships, reproducve health, mental health, and personal safety.
Prerequisite: None All schools except WC Eaket – PPL30M (Boy’s Physical Educaon), PPL3OF (Girl’s Physical Educaon)
Health for Life, Grade 11 Open (PPZ3O)
This course helps students develop a personalized approach to healthy living. Students will examine the factors that affect their own
health and the health of individuals as members of the community. They will learn about the components of the Vitality approach
to healthy living – an iniave that promotes healthy eang, an acve lifestyle, and a posive self-image. Throughout this course,
students will develop the skills necessary to take charge of and improve their own health, as well as to encourage others to lead
healthy lives. Prerequisite: None CASS, Michipicoten, WC Eaket, and White Pines only. Also available as part of the ADSB Outdoor
Educaon Program at SJD.
Personal and Fitness Acvies/Health Care Grade 11 Open (IDC3O)
Personal fitness focuses on the development of a healthy lifestyle with an emphasis on physical fitness acvies including weight
training and cardiovascular workouts. Students will be encouraged to develop personal competence in a variety of fitness movement
skills and will develop and implement a personal physical fitness plan. Students will also study the components of healthy
relaonships, reproducve health, mental health, and personal safety. Cerficaons may include Fitness Appraisal.
Health care focuses on human anatomy, physiology, and basic medical terminology. Students will learn about the relaonships
between lifestyle and personal health, and convenonal and alternave methods of disease prevenon and treatment. They will
invesgate health care procedures and equipment in nursing, medicine, and denstry and will examine health and safety issues in
health care and the environment as well as social impacts. Cerficaons may include CPR and First Aid. Bawang only
Interdisciplinary Studies
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Applied Journalism, Grade 11 Open – 2 credits (IDP3O)
This course combines expectaons from Interdisciplinary Studies, Grade 11, Open with selected expectaons from Media Arts, Grade
11, Open and Communicaons Technology, Grade 11, Open. This course will help students create informave print, media, and
electronic products for school and community audiences in diverse formats (e.g., yearbook entries, newspapers, radio and television
broadcasts, photojournalism, web pages). Students will invesgate sources of informaon and compare differing perspecves on key
issues, developing both a sense of news and news judgement. They will also learn editorial convenons and pracces, principles of
print and web design, and management skills, and will explore legal and ethical uses of informaon that is made public, as well as
journalism careers. CASS only
ADSB 2008-2009 Course Calendar 51