Year 3 - Physical education
Collaborate effectively as a team
Outdoor adventurous activities: team challenges
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Unit Summary
The unit of work will explore what makes an effective team through different problem-solving tasks and challenges. Throughout the unit, there will be a focus on pupils developing their communication skills, essential to working within a team to complete the challenges successfully.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to apply simple tactics to complete challenges by collaborating and communicating effectively within a team.
Key Notes
- Move: speed and balance are important skills when trying to complete challenges quickly.
- Think: understanding our role within a team and collaborating with our team members helps to ensure we are successful.
- Think: thinking tactically and considering ways to improve our performances in the challenges requires problem solving.
- Feel: taking on responsibility and leading others within our team demonstrates excellent self-motivation.
- Connect: encouraging others through effective collaboration and communication improves our ability to work as a team.
Vocabulary To Learn
- tactics: a carefully planned set of actions that are used by a team or an individual to achieve a certain goal
- collaborate: to work together with one or more people to achieve a common goal
- role: a set of responsibilities that we carry out as part of a team
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils believe that teams are only successful if they score the most points or win against their opposition.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: speed and balance are important skills when trying to complete challenges quickly. Think: understanding our role within a team and collaborating with our team members helps to ensure we are successful.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'tactics'
a carefully planned set of actions that are used by a team or an individual to achieve a certain goal.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils believe that teams are only successful if they score the most points or win against their opposition. Correction: Scoring the most points or goals is one way you can measure success. Including all team members, playing fairly and improving are all equally important ways of being successful when competing.
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