Year 8 - Physical education
Balanced competition
Inclusive sports: teamship, communication and awareness of others
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Unit Summary
This unit explores how to measure success beyond the outcomes of competition, how to balance competition, and how to ensure games are inclusive, respectful, supportive and engaging for all. Pupils will develop their teamship skills through improved communication, empathy and awareness of others.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to respectfully participate in balanced competition.
Key Notes
- Move: taking smaller steps and keeping a low centre of mass when cornering in a slalom will help to maintain balance.
- Think: to overcome conditions that are placed upon an individual or a team, problem solving and teamwork is required.
- Feel: embracing challenges will enable you to make more progress, building a greater sense of achievement.
- Connect: adapting competitive situations to make them more balanced maintains motivation and enjoyment levels.
Vocabulary To Learn
- balanced competition: conditions are applied to teams or individuals to ensure fairness and equal chances of winning
- respect: regard for the feelings, wishes or rights of others
- challenge: something that needs great mental or physical effort in order to be done successfully and therefore tests a person's ability
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils seek the easiest opportunity to guarantee a win.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: taking smaller steps and keeping a low centre of mass when cornering in a slalom will help to maintain balance. Think: to overcome conditions that are placed upon an individual or a team, problem solving and teamwork is required.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'balanced competition'
conditions are applied to teams or individuals to ensure fairness and equal chances of winning.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils seek the easiest opportunity to guarantee a win. Correction: Winning an unfair or unbalanced race/competition is a hollow victory and greater satisfaction comes from winning a balanced contest where both individuals/teams have a good chance of winning.
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