GACE Health and Physical Education (737) study guide
GACE Health and Physical Education (737) · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
The GACE Health and Physical Education (737) assessment is one of the content-area tests Georgia uses within its educator certification system for teachers. It is intended for candidates who plan to teach health and physical education in Georgia schools, typically at the middle or secondary level, and who need to demonstrate content knowledge before or alongside certification. The GACE Health and Physical Education (737) study guide has 9 sections and about 4,506 words.
01Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
This domain tests whether you can apply prevention science inside a school: how disease and injury are classified, which behavior-change models explain student choices, and how epidemiologic data drive school policy. Expect scenario items that ask you to name the level of prevention, the stage of change, or the link in the chain of infection.
492 words, about 2 min02Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Healthy Weight Management
This domain tests your command of nutrient math, current dietary and activity guidance, and energy balance, plus your ability to plan and defend nutrition and fitness instruction for preK–12 students. Most items are numeric or guideline-specific, so know the reference values cold.
443 words, about 2 min03Health Education: Mental and Emotional Health
This domain tests your ability to teach mental and emotional health and to recognize when a student needs referral. Items cover self-concept and self-esteem, stress physiology, coping and resilience, social-emotional learning, common adolescent disorders, and the legal and ethical boundaries of the teacher's role.
408 words, about 2 min04Health Education: Family and Interpersonal Relationships
This domain tests how well you can teach communication, conflict resolution, refusal skills, family dynamics, and the recognition and reporting of abuse. Items often supply a short dialogue or family vignette and ask you to classify the behavior or choose the most appropriate response.
412 words, about 2 min05Health Education: Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drug Prevention
This domain tests drug classification, the physiology of alcohol and nicotine, accurate standard-drink and blood-alcohol reasoning, and evidence-based prevention strategies for schools. Expect quantitative items on standard drinks and qualitative items on prevention program design.
420 words, about 2 min06Health Education: Safety, Injury Prevention, and Emergency Response
This domain tests your ability to teach injury prevention and to perform and sequence emergency care correctly. Items use realistic scenarios and reward precise numbers: compression rate, depth, ratio, and the order of actions.
470 words, about 2 min07Physical Education: Motor Development and Motor Learning
This domain tests whether you can match instruction to a student's developmental stage and apply motor-learning principles to practice design. Items present a learner of a given age or skill level and ask what to expect, what to teach next, or how to structure practice and feedback.
404 words, about 2 min08Physical Education: Movement Forms, Biomechanics, and Fitness
This domain tests mechanics, fitness components and prescription, and knowledge of movement forms and game categories. Quantitative items on heart rate, levers, and training principles are common, so be able to show the arithmetic.
478 words, about 2 min09Physical Education: Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment
This domain tests instructional design: building standards-based units, writing measurable objectives, choosing teaching styles and management routines, and selecting assessments that actually measure the objective. Items reward alignment - objective, instruction, and assessment must match in verb and condition.
979 words, about 5 min