Year 3 - Physical education
Moving well: can you challenge your personal best through strength activities?
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Unit Summary
This unit will teach pupils the meaning of strength, flexibility, agility, balance and general movement competence to support overall fitness. Pupils will complete focused circuits developing their own movement skills, enhancing their understanding of the importance of healthy active lifestyles.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to challenge your own personal best by completing different strength-focused challenges.
Key Notes
- Move: developing strength and challenging our personal best requires using the correct technique for each action.
- Think: knowing how to safely perform each activity requires concentration.
- Feel: striving to challenge our personal best and improve our strength requires determination.
- Connect: watching the technique of others and suggesting ways to improve demonstrates respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- strength: the ability to overcome resistance
- personal best: the best effort or performance you have achieved so far
- challenge: a test of ability or skill
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Strength training can only be done in a gym or fitness suite.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: developing strength and challenging our personal best requires using the correct technique for each action. Think: knowing how to safely perform each activity requires concentration.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'strength'
the ability to overcome resistance.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Strength training can only be done in a gym or fitness suite. Correction: Strength training can easily be completed at home with different resources.
More Lessons In This Unit
- I can apply the correct technique for a range of actions in a movement circuit. Study Guide
- Moving well: can you balance on a range of body parts and link them together? Study Guide
- Moving well: can you challenge your personal best through aerobic activities? Study Guide
- Moving well: can you challenge your personal best using flexibility activities? Study Guide
- Moving well: can you jump for distance using the correct technique? Study Guide
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