Year 7 - Physical education
Officiating your own jumping challenges
Athletics: run, jump, throw and officiate
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore core techniques and use knowledge to become more technically proficient at sprinting, jogging and a range of both jumping and throwing events. Pupils will learn how the body responds to different types of exercise, how to be self-motivated and how to officiate fairly.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to participate in a range of jumping challenges and take responsibility for officiating.
Key Notes
- Move: using good jump mechanics will help to achieve a personal best score.
- Think: approaching the bar from 30-40 degrees is the ideal angle for a successful scissor technique.
- Feel: playing a role in ensuring the competition is officiated properly leads to a sense of responsibility.
- Connect: congratulating others on their performances can help them to feel good about their accomplishments.
Vocabulary To Learn
- rules: the restrictions of the challenge to ensure fairness among all competitors
- aim: the desired outcome of the challenge
- challenge: a task requiring skill and effort to overcome
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- There may be pupils who feel confident and enthusiastic and want to take over all officiating and not allow others to do so.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: using good jump mechanics will help to achieve a personal best score. Think: approaching the bar from 30-40 degrees is the ideal angle for a successful scissor technique.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'rules'
the restrictions of the challenge to ensure fairness among all competitors.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: There may be pupils who feel confident and enthusiastic and want to take over all officiating and not allow others to do so. Correction: All pupils should take some role in officiating. Assign roles such as scorecard keeper and person in charge of reading the aims and rules at each event.
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- Realising your potential at long jump Study Guide
- Relays Study Guide
- Running for distance and understanding pace Study Guide
- Running for speed and the relationship between distance and time Study Guide
- Shot put technique Study Guide
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