Physical Education

About this course

Tenth grade is the most technical year of the course. The fitness units teach periodization with foundation, development, peak, and deload phases, resistance training principles, progressive overload, VO2 max, heart rate zone training, recovery nutrition, and the three energy systems, and then walk your student step by step through writing an actual 12-week training program with a stated goal, a baseline assessment, mesocycles, exercise selection, and scheduled rest days. One lesson teaches how to evaluate commercial fitness programs with five screening questions, which is a genuinely useful piece of consumer discernment. Team sports move to systems rather than skills: basketball read-and-react offense, half-court defensive schemes, and the pick-and-roll; soccer positional play and set pieces; volleyball serve receive, rotations, and the back row attack; softball situational hitting, base running, and the double play; flag football route concepts; plus sports psychology, visualization and pre-performance routines, composure under pressure, and a lesson on giving a Christian testimony through sport.

Health and nutrition is essentially an introductory nutrition science unit: nutritional biochemistry, glycemic index and glycemic load, anti-inflammatory foods, gut health and immunity, sleep stages, the physiology of the stress response, and the link between exercise and mental health. Weight is handled through self-discipline and stewardship rather than diet culture, and there is a careful lesson on biblical fasting that presents the scriptural pattern and the research on intermittent fasting while stating plainly that fasting for body image is unhealthy and that anyone with a history of disordered eating should involve a doctor. First aid and CPR each get a full lesson, and the outdoor unit adds wilderness first aid for situations far from help. There is no sex education in the tenth grade course.

There are 108 lessons in nine units of twelve. Units seven through nine revisit fitness, team sports, and individual activities, and a few individual topics, notably archery and cycling, come around several times, so expect some repeated practice there. Each lesson is planned for about 35 minutes with seven minutes of introduction, seventeen of activity, and a seven-minute review, and each ends with a ten-question quiz that grades itself. The reading is dense but shorter than ninth grade, around 220 to 470 words, and much of it is written as instructions your student carries out on paper, particularly the training program, the personal health assessment, and the training log. That makes this the year with the most planning and writing relative to gym time. The flexibility unit includes a direct lesson on yoga alternatives for Christians, which explains why yoga as a system is bound to Hindu spirituality and offers stretching to worship music, pilates, mobility work, and barre as substitutes. Outdoor lessons include backpacking, wilderness survival, foraging, paddling, camp cooking, and nature photography, and reward real access to trails and water.

What the course covers

• Periodization, deload weeks, progressive overload, VO2 max, and energy systems
• Evaluating commercial fitness programs and marketing claims
• Basketball read-and-react and half-court defense, soccer set pieces, volleyball systems
• Sports psychology: visualization, routines, and composure under pressure
• Sprint mechanics, middle distance pacing, swimming strokes, tennis, golf, archery
• Nutritional biochemistry, glycemic load, anti-inflammatory foods, and gut health
• Biblical fasting, weight management as self-discipline, sleep stages, and stress
• First aid, CPR, and wilderness first aid
• Muscle anatomy, foam rolling, balance boards, and yoga alternatives for Christians
• Backpacking, wilderness survival, foraging, paddling, and camp cooking

What your student will be able to do

• Write and follow a periodized 12-week training program with a measurable goal
• Run a personal health assessment and set training zones from the results
• Execute team offensive and defensive systems, not just individual skills
• Judge a commercial fitness or nutrition claim against its evidence
• Perform CPR and basic first aid, including care when help is far away
• Backpack, navigate, and cook in the outdoors under Leave No Trace ethics

Scope and sequence

All 9 units of Physical Education for Grade 10, in the order they are taught.

Every lesson, by title

All 108 lesson titles are listed here — nothing is withheld until you download. Open a unit to read its contents.

One whole lesson, exactly as it comes

This is a real lesson taken from the middle of the course — the teaching text, the practice, the homework, and the first three quiz questions with their answers. It is not a marketing excerpt.

What you will need

Drawn from the materials named across all 108 lessons of this course. Most families already own most of it.