Year 8 - Physical education
Capture the flag
Outdoor adventurous activities: physical and intellectual challenges
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Unit Summary
This unit explores pupils' ability to respond effectively to problems and physical challenges, both individually and in cooperation with others. Developing awareness of others and ability to work in teams is essential to success in life and in this unit.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to work as a team to mobilise a strategy and reflect on individual contributions.
Key Notes
- Move: rapid hip and knee flexion enables you to duck and avoid capture.
- Move: controlled slow and steady movements will help us stay in time with others.
- Think: adjusting plans in response to the opposition's actions improves our chance of success.
- Feel: stretching yourself beyond your comfort zone helps develop confidence in situations.
- Connect: we must sometimes take the lesser roles to secure overall success by the team.
Vocabulary To Learn
- strategy: a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim
- contribution: the part played by a person in achieving the overall result
- pacing: the controlled speed and rhythm of our movements
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- All players are desperate to get the opposition's treasure so they have a high risk of getting caught and neglecting the protection of their own treasure.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: rapid hip and knee flexion enables you to duck and avoid capture. Move: controlled slow and steady movements will help us stay in time with others.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'strategy'
a plan of action designed to achieve a long-term or overall aim.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: All players are desperate to get the opposition's treasure so they have a high risk of getting caught and neglecting the protection of their own treasure. Correction: Let pupils do it however they like first but then give time to regroup and plan a smarter team strategy.
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