Year 7 - Physical education
Fitness challenges as a team
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 contribute to team fitness challenges by performing exercises to the best of your ability.
Key Notes
- Move: running fast requires you to slightly lean forwards, keep your head up and pump the arms and legs simultaneously.
- Think: fitness is having the speed, strength and stamina to meet the needs of the activity.
- Feel: completing a task with positive outcomes can lead to a sense of accomplishment.
- Connect: collaboration involves working as a team to meet shared goals or outcomes.
Vocabulary To Learn
- fitness: your ability to meet the needs of the activity using speed, strength and stamina
- success: the accomplishment of an aim or purpose
- endurance: the ability to keep going for a long period of sustained exercise (also known as stamina)
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Believing that hard work involves rushing to complete the maximum number of repetitions but with poor form.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: running fast requires you to slightly lean forwards, keep your head up and pump the arms and legs simultaneously. Think: fitness is having the speed, strength and stamina to meet the needs of the activity.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'fitness'
your ability to meet the needs of the activity using speed, strength and stamina.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Believing that hard work involves rushing to complete the maximum number of repetitions but with poor form. Correction: Doing less movements with the correct technique will have a more positive impact on fitness than blasting out lots with poor form/range of movement.
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- Explore your school site 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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