Year 7 - Physical education
Playground games and fundamental movement skills
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 play simple games that help develop fundamental movement skills.
Key Notes
- Move: performing fundametal movement skills accurately and consistently will improve performance in games.
- Think: following the nuance in rules is what makes games distinctive from each other.
- Feel: frustration when struggling to master an unfamiliar task is overcome with patience.
- Connect: when working as a team, being accountable for your actions can help build trust.
Vocabulary To Learn
- fundamental movement skills: the basic building blocks for more complex skills such as running, jumping, throwing and catching
- agility: the ability to change direction at speed and keep control of the body. It is important when dodging
- coordination: the ability to use two or more body parts at the same time. For example, hand-eye or foot-eye coordination
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- fundamental movement skills (FMS) are only needed at primary school.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: performing fundametal movement skills accurately and consistently will improve performance in games. Think: following the nuance in rules is what makes games distinctive from each other.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'fundamental movement skills'
the basic building blocks for more complex skills such as running, jumping, throwing and catching.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: fundamental movement skills (FMS) are only needed at primary school. Correction: FMS underpin good movement in any activity and in wider life, so it is essential that we continue to practise and hone these basic movements.
More Lessons In This Unit
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- Explore your school site Study Guide
- Fitness challenges as a team Study Guide
- Orienteering 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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