Year 7 - Physical education
Build a successful team to cross the river
Outdoor adventurous activities: teamwork, fitness and movement skills
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Unit Summary
This unit explores skillful movement and physical fitness through teamwork challenges. Pupils will develop teamwork skills and understand both why and how to warm up for different types of physical activity.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to work as a team to solve a physical challenge at speed and with honesty.
Key Notes
- Move: using peers' arms and hands to help with balance and stability will increase success.
- Move: balancing involves coordinating your muscles, joints and nervous system to keep you stable and prevent falls.
- Think: logical thinking requires you to think carefully about your actions and possible outcomes.
- Feel: speaking and acting truthfully demonstrates honesty.
- Connect: effective leaders will be able to influence and guide a group to achieve a common goal.
Vocabulary To Learn
- leadership: the ability of an individual or a group of people to influence and guide followers or members of an organisation, society or team
- critical thinking: thinking carefully and logically about something to figure out the best solution or answer
- honesty: speaking and acting truthfully. Showing respect towards others with integrity and self-awareness.
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Rushing before figuring out a strategy and consequently making mistakes
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: using peers' arms and hands to help with balance and stability will increase success. Move: balancing involves coordinating your muscles, joints and nervous system to keep you stable and prevent falls.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'leadership'
the ability of an individual or a group of people to influence and guide followers or members of an organisation, society or team.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Rushing before figuring out a strategy and consequently making mistakes. Correction: Take time to plan your strategy first to avoid losing more time by being sent back to the start.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Explore your school site Study Guide
- Fitness challenges as a team Study Guide
- Orienteering Study Guide
- Playground games and fundamental movement skills Study Guide
- Problem solving Study Guide
- Problem solving challenges as a team Study Guide
- Sheep pen communication challenge as a team Study Guide
- Social skill challenges Study Guide
- Trust exercises Study Guide
- Understand how your body responds to exercise Study Guide
- Working as a team to raise your heart rate Study Guide
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