Choosing a Homeschool Health Curriculum

When we were homeschooling high school, wecombined it with their sports activities to make it
used the book "Total Health" as our curriculum.a PE credit. I didn't list Health separately on their
We used both the Jr. High and the Sr. High texts.transcript. With their sports activities, I did have
My boys liked them both. If you are getting justan EASY 150 hours of PE, and I did give them a
one, I would get the one that best meets thefull credit, but they were doing soccer, swim
age of your child. If they are 9th grade or under,team and baseball at the time.
or if they are highly sheltered and older, get theIf I had listed Total Health alone on the transcript,
Jr. High. If they are over 9th grade, or hang outI think I would have given it 1/2 credit, because
with their youth groups, other secular kids, etc.,even with the tests, I don't think it would take
then I would get the Sr. High version.the time for a full year at 1 hour a day to
We chose not to get the workbooks, however. Icomplete. In Washington State, we are required
wanted them to learn the content but I had soto teach health at some point in their lives, but
many other high powered courses at the time, Ithey don't specify when or how much, so I had
didn't want to have yet another thing for them tono requirement as to it being a whole credit in
be tested on. We were doing Latin and Biologyhigh school. If you want to supplement for high
and stuff at the time, and it would have been justschool health to make it a full credit, consider
too much. Both times I used Total Health, Itaking a CPR or basic first aid course.