Year 4 - Physical education
Sequence work in groups combining concepts
Gymnastics: symmetry and asymmetry
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Unit Summary
This unit will focus on exploring movements and balances in symmetrical and asymmetrical ways. Pupils will create and perform sequences that incorporate symmetrical and asymmetrical balances on apparatus, applying flow. Pupils will learn how to include canon and unison in their sequence creation.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to work as part of a group to design a sequence that must include group symmetrical and asymmetrical balances linked by movements in both canon and unison.
Key Notes
- Move: quality sequences must consistently show control, extension, accurate timing and fluidity from start to finish.
- Think: designing a group sequence to include all the required components shows decision making and resourcefulness.
- Connect: listening to everyone's ideas and ensuring everyone is included and enjoying their learning requires respect.
- Feel: motivating everyone to keep trying their best to develop the sequences further demonstrates responsibility.
Vocabulary To Learn
- design: creating a plan for how something should be put together
- sequence: combination of controlled movements and balances that have been linked together in a particular order
- group: several people working together as a unit
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils insist on including the movements and balances that they want to perform as part of the sequence, even if some members of the group cannot perform these correctly.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: quality sequences must consistently show control, extension, accurate timing and fluidity from start to finish. Think: designing a group sequence to include all the required components shows decision making and resourcefulness.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'design'
creating a plan for how something should be put together.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils insist on including the movements and balances that they want to perform as part of the sequence, even if some members of the group cannot perform these correctly. Correction: Groups need to agree on the movements and balances that they are including in the sequence and ensure everyone is able to perform them correctly and safely.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Asymmetry Study Guide
- Canon in sequences Study Guide
- Create sequences in canon on apparatus with symmetrical balances Study Guide
- Create sequences in unison on apparatus with symmetrical balances Study Guide
- Sequence completion and peer review Study Guide
- Sequence completion and performance Study Guide
- Sequence formation in pairs Study Guide
- Sequences on apparatus in pairs using symmetrical and asymmetrical balances Study Guide
- Symmetrical and asymmetrical learning on apparatus Study Guide
- Symmetry Study Guide
- Unison in sequences Study Guide
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