Year 3 - Physical education
Communicating 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 solve problems by working and communicating within your team in order to be successful.
Key Notes
- Move: to be successful in the challenges, we have to move as fast as possible and react to make quick decisions.
- Think: thinking tactically and collaborating with our team can help us to be more successful in the team challenges.
- Feel: demonstrating resilience by always trying our best, even when we are frustrated, helps us to complete a challenge.
- Connect: collaborating with teammates using a range of communication styles helps us to be successful.
Vocabulary To Learn
- collaborate: to work together with one or more people to achieve a common goal
- success: to achieve a desired outcome or goal
- team: a group of people who work together with the objective of achieving the same goal
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils believe that all effective forms of communication are verbal.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: to be successful in the challenges, we have to move as fast as possible and react to make quick decisions. Think: thinking tactically and collaborating with our team can help us to be more successful in the team challenges.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'collaborate'
to work together with one or more people to achieve a common goal.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils believe that all effective forms of communication are verbal. Correction: Ensure pupils understand that there are many different ways they can communicate through both verbal and non-verbal communication.
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