Year 1 - Physical education
Team activities: cooperating successfully
Outdoor adventurous activities: working with others
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore how to work with a partner and then within a team. Pupils will learn the importance of turn taking, fair play, following rules, and how to adjust a game so that everyone feels they can succeed and have fun.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to complete tasks through teamwork by being cooperative.
Key Notes
- Move: moving in a variety of different ways requires coordination and agility.
- Think: tasks are completed when everyone on the team concentrates.
- Feel: trying our hardest throughout an activity requires self-belief.
- Connect: team success requires everyone in the team to cooperate.
Vocabulary To Learn
- coordination: the ability to move 2 or more body parts at the same time and move with others
- cooperate: working with others to achieve a shared goal
- success: trying your best, learning new things, and being confident
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think they must be standing up to create letter shapes. When creating words, pairs make their letter shapes in the wrong order, or facing the wrong way, so that the whole word is not seen.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: moving in a variety of different ways requires coordination and agility. Think: tasks are completed when everyone on the team concentrates.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'coordination'
the ability to move 2 or more body parts at the same time and move with others.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think they must be standing up to create letter shapes. When creating words, pairs make their letter shapes in the wrong order, or facing the wrong way, so that the whole word is not seen. Correction: Letter shapes can be formed standing or lying down. Encourage teams to imagine that they are another team looking at their word, are all letters in the correct order and facing the same direction?
More Lessons In This Unit
- Partner activities: cooperating successfully Study Guide
- Partner activities: developing communication Study Guide
- Partner activities: playing against each other Study Guide
- Partner activities: scoring points with a partner Study Guide
- Partner activities: solving problems Study Guide
- Partner activities: taking turns Study Guide
- Team activities: cooperating in a team game Study Guide
- Team activities: decision making in a team game Study Guide
- Team activities: developing communication Study Guide
- Team activities: playing fairly in groups Study Guide
- Team activities: solving problems Study Guide
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