Health & Physical Education

At Desert Oasis High School, the Physical Education and Health Department focuses on empowering students to build lifelong habits for a healthy, active, and balanced lifestyle. To meet Nevada graduation requirements, students must complete one semester of Health, which covers essential wellness, nutrition, and mental health concepts, and two full years of Physical Education. Recognizing that students have unique talents and busy schedules, the school offers multiple flexible pathways to earn these PE credits. Families can choose traditional, engaging elective courses like Lifetime Sports or Physical Conditioning, or students can earn credits through active participation on school-sponsored athletic teams, which frees up valuable space in their daily class schedule for other academic or creative interests.

Showcade Course Information for Students and Families

PE I

This one-year course provides students the opportunity to develop a health and skill-enhancing level of physical fitness. Students engage in movement and fitness activities at moderate to vigorous levels for a minimum of 50% of the instructional time. Through participation in physical activities, students execute motor skills, movement patterns, and safety within the course. Health and skill-enhancing fitness concepts are explored through personal goal setting and self-evaluation. This course fulfills one of the two physical education credits required for high school graduation.

Course Fee: $30 (Uniform & Lock)

PE II

This one-year course provides students the opportunity to develop a health- and skill-enhancing
level of physical fitness. Students engage in movement and fitness activities at moderate to
vigorous levels for a minimum of 50% of the instructional time. Through participation in physical
activities, students execute motor skills, movement patterns, and safety within the course. Health and skill-enhancing fitness concepts are explored through personal goal setting and self-evaluation. This course fulfills one of the two physical education credits required for high school graduation.

Course Fee: $30 (Uniform & Lock)

Health

This one-semester course examines the intricate relationships between personal, community, and environmental health, mental and emotional health, nutrition and physical activity, substance use and abuse, safety practices, injury prevention, CPR/AED, personal safety, human reproductive system, HIV/AIDS, related communicable diseases, and sexual responsibility within established guidelines. Topics include analyzing influences, accessing information, interpersonal communication, decision-making, goal setting, self-management, and advocacy. The course fulfills the one-half credit of health required for high school graduation.

Course Fee: $15 CPR Certification

Elective Courses

Dance I

This one-year course is designed to develop an appreciation of dance as an art form. Students will relate personal experiences to create movement. The students will communicate in a way that is different from the written or spoken word, or even from other visual or auditory symbol systems. Students develop higher order thinking skills through creating, performing, responding and connecting to dance. The student will examine the role and meaning of dance in diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts through a variety of dance forms. This course fulfills either the one Arts/Humanities/CTE credit, or one physical education credit required for graduation and may be repeated.

Course Fee: $30, plus uniform rental/cleaning fees

See Art Page for Additional Information

Dance II

This one-year course is an intermediate level course designed to build upon an appreciation of dance as an art form. Students will relate personal experiences to create movement. The students will communicate in a way that is different from the written or spoken word, or even from other visual or auditory symbol systems. Students develop higher-order thinking skills through creating, performing, responding, and connecting to dance. The student examines the role and meaning of dance in diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts through a variety of dance forms. This course fulfills either the one Arts/Humanities/CTE credit, or one physical education credit required for graduation and may be repeated.

Course Fee: $30, plus uniform rental/cleaning fees

See Art Page for Additional Information

Functional Fitness (Cross Fit)

This one-year course is an intermediate level course designed to build upon an appreciation of dance as an art form. Students will relate personal experiences to create movement. The students will communicate in a way that is different from the written or spoken word, or even from other visual or auditory symbol systems. Students develop higher order thinking skills through creating, performing, responding and connecting to dance. The student examines the role and meaning of dance in diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts through a variety of dance forms. This course fulfills either the one Arts/Humanities/CTE credit, or one physical education credit required for graduation and may be repeated.

Course Fee: $30, plus uniform rental/cleaning fees

Lifetime Fitness

This one-year course is an intermediate level course designed to build upon an appreciation of dance as an art form. Students will relate personal experiences to create movement. The students will communicate in a way that is different from the written or spoken word, or even from other visual or auditory symbol systems. Students develop higher order thinking skills through creating, performing, responding and connecting to dance. The student examines the role and meaning of dance in diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts through a variety of dance forms. This course fulfills either the one Arts/Humanities/CTE credit, or one physical education credit required for graduation and may be repeated.

Course Fee: $30, plus uniform rental/cleaning fees

Lifetime Fitness (Archery)

Military Science Pathway

Physical Conditioning with Weights

This one-year course is an intermediate level course designed to build upon an appreciation of dance as an art form. Students will relate personal experiences to create movement. The students will communicate in a way that is different from the written or spoken word, or even from other visual or auditory symbol systems. Students develop higher order thinking skills through creating, performing, responding and connecting to dance. The student examines the role and meaning of dance in diverse social, cultural, and historical contexts through a variety of dance forms. This course fulfills either the one Arts/Humanities/CTE credit, or one physical education credit required for graduation and may be repeated.

Course Fee: $30, plus uniform rental/cleaning fees

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