Fitness for Life is a comprehensive K-12 program designed to help students take responsibility for their own activity, fitness, and health and to prepare them to be physically active and healthy throughout their adult lives. This standards-based program has been carefully articulated following a pedagogically sound scope and sequence to enhance student learning and progress. The program includes three sets of coordinated resources:
- A K-6 nutrition, physical activity, and wellness program
- A personal fitness text for middle school students
- The nation’s first personal fitness textbook for high school students, now in its updated fifth edition
The K-6 program, Fitness for Life: Elementary School, is an innovative multimedia program. It facilitates total school involvement by using physical education lessons, classroom activities and discussions, recess, before- and afterschool activities, and even family nights to deliver appropriate physical activity, and teaches concepts to promote health-related fitness and active lifestyles. The program features
- 9 books
- 10 bound-in DVDs
- 1 CD-ROM
- 1 music CD
The Fitness for Life: Middle School text sets the stage for the high school text by continuing to instill knowledge about the benefits of a healthy, active lifestyle. The book emphasizes the importance of physical activity for all, while exposing students to a variety of activities in the Physical Activity Pyramid. The program includes a
- student text
- teacher’s guide
- CD-ROM bound into the teacher’s guide
The high school text, Fitness for Life, Updated Fifth Edition, offers more detailed fitness and wellness concepts and focuses on self-management skills for healthy lifestyle change. Students learn to select the physical activities they enjoy and develop individualized lifetime physical activity and wellness plans that put them on the path to lifelong fitness and health. The program includes
- a student text
- a wraparound teacher’s edition
- 4 CD-ROMs
- 2 DVDs
- 2 music CDs
