Year 8 - Physical education
Analysing performance and identifying your best events
Athletics: train and perform in a sport education season
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' ability to perform in a range of athletic events with a focus on personal best improvements. They will learn about different components of fitness and the difference between aerobic and anaerobic exercise. Pupils will take responsibility for working in small teams.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to compare and contrast your relative performance in a range of events.
Key Notes
- Move: the skills that you can perform with the greatest level of fluency, control and consistency are your most refined.
- Think: applying reasoning to judgements about your performance helps to ensure accurate conclusions are made.
- Feel: reflecting on performance in a wide range of activities provides a sense of achievement.
- Connect: sharing opinions about the strengths of others offers an alternative view to make informed decisions.
Vocabulary To Learn
- assessment: the process to make a judgement of performance, knowledge and understanding
- evaluation: reviewing your results, techniques, and efforts to determine which events you excel in
- personal best: your highest recorded performance in an event, used to gauge potential and improvement
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- All throwing events have the same technique.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: the skills that you can perform with the greatest level of fluency, control and consistency are your most refined. Think: applying reasoning to judgements about your performance helps to ensure accurate conclusions are made.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'assessment'
the process to make a judgement of performance, knowledge and understanding.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: All throwing events have the same technique. Correction: While there is a common core technique across all throwing events, each event has a unique set of technical elements that range from the grip, stance, release and recovery phases.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Competing and contributing as a united team Study Guide
- Mini Olympic opening ceremony Study Guide
- Officiating, performing and supporting your team Study Guide
- The grand final, relays and medal tables Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in high jump Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in javelin Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in long jump and triple jump Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in middle distance events Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in shot put Study Guide
- Training in teams for personal bests in sprint events Study Guide
- Trials and team selection for a sport education season Study Guide
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