Year 4 - Physical education
Unison in sequences
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 create a sequence in unison using a range of movements and balances that flow.
Key Notes
- Move: creating movements in unison requires moving in time with our partner.
- Think: performing in unison with our partner requires concentration to ensure we are both moving with accurate timings.
- Think: selecting the movements and balances to perform in unison requires decision making.
- Connect: strong collaboration and respect helps to ensure the movements are performed with accurate timings in unison.
- motivating our partner to perform with maximum effort and accurate timing requires resilience.
Vocabulary To Learn
- unison: performing the same movement at exactly the same time as a partner
- accurate timings: performing movements and balances at the exact time you planned
- sequence: combination of controlled movements and balances that have been linked together in a particular order
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils find keeping accurate timings hard and struggle to see how to adapt the sequence to improve this and make this easier.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: creating movements in unison requires moving in time with our partner. Think: performing in unison with our partner requires concentration to ensure we are both moving with accurate timings.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'unison'
performing the same movement at exactly the same time as a partner.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils find keeping accurate timings hard and struggle to see how to adapt the sequence to improve this and make this easier. Correction: Encourage pupils to slow down their movements and to include simpler movements that both pupils in the pair can perform with confidence.
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
- Sequence work in groups combining concepts 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
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