About Us
Missie Dickerson, Department Chairperson
Department email: mdickerson@blueblazers.org
Department telephone: 574-295-4718

Educators in the department are:
Trudy Battjes | Tim Borg | | Matt Erlacher | Mark Hummel

Description of classes...

Health Education   #9041

A State Graduation Requirement and A Core 40 & AHD Course

Level: 9                     Length: 1 term                Credit: 1 credit/term

High school health education provides the basis for continued methods of developing knowledge, concepts, skills, behaviors, and attitudes related to student health and well-being.  This course includes the major content areas in a planned, sequential, comprehensive health education curriculum as expressed in the Indiana Health Education Standards Guide:  (1) Growth and Development in the Body Systems; (2) Mental and Emotional Health; (3) Community and Environmental Health; (4) Weight Management; (5) Family Life; (6) Consumer Health; (7) Personal Health; (8) Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs; (9) Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

Students are provided with opportunities to explore the effect of health behaviors on an individual's quality of life.  This course assists students in understanding that health is a lifetime commitment by analyzing individual risk factors and health decisions that promote health and prevent disease as it relates with real world and real life situations.  Students are also encouraged to assume individual responsibility for becoming competent health consumers.  A variety of instructional strategies, including technology, are used to further develop health literacy.

Physical Education I   #9131

A State Graduation Requirement and A Core 40 & AHD Course

Level: 9                           Length: 1 term          Credit: .5 credit/term

Physical Education I continues the emphasis on health-related fitness and developing the skills and habits necessary for a lifetime of activity.  This program includes skill development and the application of rules and strategies of complex difficulty in at least three of the following different movement forms:  (1) health-related fitness activities (cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition), (2) aerobic exercise, (3) team sports, (4) individual and dual sports, (5) outdoor pursuits, (6) dance-dance revolution and (7) recreational games.  Ongoing assessment includes both written and Performance-based skill evaluations. 

* Classes are coeducational unless the activity involves bodily contact or groupings are based on an objective standard of individual performance developed and applied without regard to gender.

  * Adapted physical education must be offered, as needed, in the least restricted environment and must be based on individual assessment.

Adv. P. E. 4 ---

Life Guard Certification   #9271

Level: 10, 11, 12                  Length: 1 term              Credit: 1 credit/term

Life Guarding is an aquatics course designed to prepare the student to qualify for the American Red Cross Life Guard Certificate.  The student will also be able to qualify for certifications in Automated External Defibrillation (AED), Disease Transmission, CPR for the Professional Rescuer, Oxygen Administration, and First Aid.

Prerequisite:  Must have recommendation from a PE teacher.  Must be able to swim 300 yards using the freestyle and breaststroke technique.  Must be 15 years of age by the end of the course.

Adv. PE IV: Life Guard Internship                           #9265

Level: 11, 12                  Length: 1 term              Credit: 1 credit/term

This class is offered  to those students that have received certification as an American Red Cross Lifeguard.  This class is for one credit and  those students that  qualify  to take this class will  be guarding for the Physical Education classes.  Students are  paid  by Elkhart Community Schools.  When students are not guarding, they will act as student assistants for the Physical Education staff.

Prerequisite:  16 years old & Life Guard Certification

Physical Education II   #9231

A State Graduation Requirement and A Core 40 & AHD Course

Level: 10            Length: 1 term                       Credit: .5 credit/term 

Physical Education II  emphasizes a personal commitment to lifetime activity and fitness for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.  This course provides students with opportunities to achieve and maintain a health-enhancing level of physical fitness and increase their knowledge of fitness concepts.  It includes at least three different movement forms without repeating those offered in Physical Education I.  Movement forms may include:  (health-related fitness activities (cardio respiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility, and body composition), (2) aerobic exercise, (3) team sports, (4) individual and dual sports, (5) outdoor pursuits, (6) dance-dance revolution, and (7) recreational games.  Ongoing assessment includes both written and performance-based skill evaluations..  This course will also include a discussion of related careers.

* Classes are co-educational unless the activity involves bodily contact or groupings are based on an objective standard of individual performance developed and applied without regard to gender.

Prerequisite:  Physical Education I

Adv. P.E. 5 --- Females

Weight Training and Fitness   #9251

Level:  10, 11, 12                  Length:  1 term           Credit: 1 credit/term

This course offers a personal exercise program designed to meet each individual's fitness goal.  This class is for athletes who need to condition or prepare for an upcoming sport, or for anyone just wishing to tone and strengthen their body.

Activities include the use of the weight room and exercise equipment, land and water aerobics, dyna-band workouts, cardio-kickboxing, and pilates.  Class size is limited to 26 and is not available to anyone who has not completed PE 1.

Adv. P. E. 5 --- Males  

Weight Training and Fitness    #9273      

 Level: 10, 11, 12                  Length: 1 term             Credit: 1 credit/term

Weight training is a course designed to introduce body development  and physical fitness through the use of weight equipment.  Exercises will be taught that stress strength development, endurance, and flexibility for each individual student.  Running and speed improvement drills are an important part of the program.

Prerequisite:  This class is for any student wishing to improve their muscular strength and tone.  All students must have completed PE 1 before enrolling in this class.  Class size is limited to 26 students.