Year 7 - Physical education
Running for distance and understanding pace
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 maintain a steady pace over an extended time and/or distance.
Key Notes
- Move: running over different distances or times requires different styles and paces to achieve your best performance.
- Move: starting an extended run at a pace which is sustainable will avoid creating an oxygen debt and tiring.
- Think: calculating how fast you can run and for how long will help you to select the right pace.
- Feel: listening to your body during extended running and striving to keep going demonstrates self-motivation
- Connect: contributing to a team effort and encouraging team mates can foster a sense of belonging.
Vocabulary To Learn
- calculate: determine the best pace considering how far you are running and how much time you want to take
- pace: the speed at which you are running
- sustainable: a speed that you can keep up with over the entire distance
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils start long distance running too fast through a mixture of excitement, copying each other and overestimating the pace they can maintain.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: running over different distances or times requires different styles and paces to achieve your best performance. Move: starting an extended run at a pace which is sustainable will avoid creating an oxygen debt and tiring.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'calculate'
determine the best pace considering how far you are running and how much time you want to take.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils start long distance running too fast through a mixture of excitement, copying each other and overestimating the pace they can maintain. Correction: Emphasise the need to calculate and find a suitable pace and consider how sustainable a fast pace is going to be.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Hurdles Study Guide
- Javelin technique Study Guide
- Jumping for distance Study Guide
- Jumping for height Study Guide
- Officiating your own jumping challenges Study Guide
- Officiating your own throwing challenges Study Guide
- Realising your potential at long jump Study Guide
- Relays Study Guide
- Running for speed and the relationship between distance and time Study Guide
- Shot put technique Study Guide
- Supporting others to successfully triple jump Study Guide
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