Year 7 - Physical education
Orienteering
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 orientate a simple map of a netball court and follow a predetermined path.
Key Notes
- Move: changing direction when running requires you to run on the balls of your feet and turn your hips.
- Think: different symbols are used to represent different features on the map.
- Think: maps should be orientated in the same direction as the terrain around you.
- Feel: imagination is required to visualise an area from an aerial view.
- Connect: working as a team requires us to share responsibility and support each other.
Vocabulary To Learn
- warm up: a pulse raiser and stretching/mobility exercise that helps prepare the body for activity and reduces the risk of getting injured
- orienteering: a competitive sport where participants run around a predetermined course using a map and sometimes a compass
- orientate: line up the map to match the key features in front of you to help when following a predetermined route
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Confusion transferring the route from the map to real life.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: changing direction when running requires you to run on the balls of your feet and turn your hips. Think: different symbols are used to represent different features on the map.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'warm up'
a pulse raiser and stretching/mobility exercise that helps prepare the body for activity and reduces the risk of getting injured.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Confusion transferring the route from the map to real life. Correction: By orientating the map and holding it facing the same way relative to key features/north, you can quickly navigate around and avoid confusion every time you change direction.
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- Explore your school site Study Guide
- Fitness challenges as a team 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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