​​​​​​​Health Education and Physical Education are integral parts of the total education of every child from kindergarten through grade 12. Therefore, every student should have the opportunity to participate in a quality health and physical education program. 

It is the role of quality health education programs to provide young people with the knowledge and skills they need to become successful learners and healthy and productive adults. To help students adopt and maintain healthy behaviors, health education should contribute directly to a student’s ability to successfully practice behaviors which protect and promote health and avoid or reduce health risks. ​

It is the role of quality physical education programs to help students develop health-related fitness, physical competence in movement activities, cognitive understanding, and positive attitudes toward physical activity so that they can adopt healthy and physically active lifestyles. Quality programs are also important because they provide learning experiences that meet a student’s developmental needs, which in turn helps to improve the mental alertness, academic performance, readiness, and enthusiasm for learning.

Good health and academic success are directly related. Healthy children are better students and better students become healthy, successful, productive adults.

_Updates

Health Education Georgia Standards of Excellence

Health Education Georgia Standards of Excellence were approved on March 25, 2021, by the State Board of Education.

The use of the revised GSE for Health Education is voluntary for the 2021-2022 school year. Full implementation begins in the 2022-2023 school year.​

Georgia Standards of Excellence for Health Education

K-12 Georgia Standards of Excellence for Health Education

 

GaDOE HPE Community​

GaDOE has launched a new innovative platform to provide the opportunity for science teachers, leaders and GaDOE staff to collaborate, connect and share thoughts and resources. ​ See our GaDOE community flyer ​​for steps on how to get started. We look forward to connecting!​

_{Resources for Health and Physical Education Teachers} ​

_{​​Remote Learning Resources}

_{​​​Health Education Resources​}

_Elementary

_{Red Ribbon Lesson Plans K-5​​​}​

_{Middle and High​}

• _{​Stanford's Tobacco Prevention Toolkit​}
• _{INDEPTH  Intervention for Nicotine Dependence: Education, Prevention, Tobacco and Health} 
• _{Georgia DPH E-Ciga​rette Tool Kit for Schools​​}
  

• _{Red Ribbon Lesson Plans 6-12}​​

_{​​HPE Requirements, Rules and Policy​}

• ​​_{1​​60-4-2-.12 COMPREHENSIVE HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATIONPROGRAM PLAN​}

_{​Fitness Assessment Program}

• ^{Fitness Assessment General Information}
• ^{Fitness Assessment 101}
• ^{FitnessGram 2015 Extract Import Process}
• ^{District Import Process}

  _{General Information}

• _{Georgia Fitness Assessment Training Manual}
  
• _{Fitnesssgram Data 2016-2017}
  
• _{Fitnessgram Data 2015-2016} 
• _{Fitnessgram Data 2013-2014}
  
• _{Fitnessgram Data 2012-2013}
• _{Fitnessgram Data 2011-2012} 
• _{Georgia Annual Fitness Report 2017​}
  
• _{Georgia Annual Fitness Report 2016}
• _FAQ
• _{Fitness Webinar Series 2013 (Recorded)}
  

  _{Sample Scope and Sequence}

• _{Grades K-5}
  

  _{Georgia Standards of Excellence}

• Please visit Georgiastandards.org to view and download the Physical Education Georgia Standards of Excellence
  

  _{Physical Education GSE Resources}

​​​Instructional Frameworks

_{​​  Grades K - 8​}

• _{​Grade K​} 
• _{Grade 1​}
• _{Grade 2}
• _{Grade 3​}
• _{Grade 4}
• _{Grade 5}

• _{Wei​​ght Training}​
  

  _Other​

• _{Adapted Physical Education General Information Webinar}
  

• _Webinar
• _{PowerPoint Sample Learning Objectives}
  

• _{School Bus Safety Elementary Curriculum}
• _{School Bus Safety Elementary PowerPoint}
• _{School Bus Safety Elementary PowerPoint Narrative}
• _{School Bus Safety Elementary Rules and Consequences}
• _{Grade K - 1 Bus Safety Organizer}
• _{Grade 2 - 3 Bus Safety Organizer}
• _{Grade 4 - 5 Bus Safety Organizer}

• _{School Bus Safety Middle School Curriculum}
• _{School Bus Safety Middle School Power Point}
• _{School Bus Safety Middle School PowerPoint Narrative}
• _{School Bus Safety Middle School Rules and Consequences}
• _{Grade 6 Bus Safety Lesson Organizer}
• _{Grade 7 Bus Safety Lesson Organizer}
• _{Grade 8 Bus Safety Lesson Organizer}

_{High School}

• _{School Bus Safety High School Curriculum}
• _{School Bus Safety High School Rules and Consequences}

• _{Georgia Gender Equity Compliance Report 2015}
• _{Georgia Gender Equity Compliance Report 2016}
  
• _{Georgia Resource Manual}
  
• _{Georgia Gender Equity Survey Questions}
  
• _{US Department of Education Guidance}
  

• _{​​OPEN Resources​​}
  
• _{Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta}
  
• _{HealthMPowers}
• _{Georgia Department of Public Health}
• _{​​Georgia DPH E-Ciga​rette Tool Kit for Schools​​}
  
• _{American Lung Association E-Cigarettes and Vaping​}
  
• _{Presidential Youth Fitness Program}
• _{SHAPE American}
• _{Georgia Association for Health, Physical education, Recreation, and Dance}
• _{Centers for Disease Control and Prevention}
• _{CDC E-Cigarettes Talk to Youth​}
  
• _{Georgia S.H.A.P.E.}
• _{The Skin Cancer Foundation Sun Smart U}
• _{Good to Go Gang  - Classroom physical activity resource}

• _{Sudden Cardiac Arres​t}
• _{GHSA Sample Participation Physical Evaluation Form}
• _{GHSA Forms}