Strand: Developing Concepts and Skills for Physical Activity

 

4.1 Students create and perform movement sequences in games, sports or other physical activities, implementing ways to enhance their own and others’ performances.

4.2 Students demonstrate basic tactics and strategies to achieve identified goals in games, sports or other physical activities.

4.3 Students identify and take part in a variety of physical activities that contribute to the development of particular components of health-related fitness.

4.4 Students explain how images of physical activity influence their own and others’ participation in, and attitudes towards, physical activities.

 

Ways to enhance their own and others’ performances:

·       practise movement skills and sequences

-     the importance of practice

-     physical and mental practice

-     length and frequency of practice

·       provide and respond to feedback

-     the importance of feedback

-     general versus specific feedback

-     positive versus negative feedback

-     monitor, analyse and evaluate feedback

·       implement suitable tactics and strategies

·       apply knowledge of stability, force and projectiles

-     force and speed to run and jump for distance and height

-     bases of support, transfer of weight and changes in body position

-     biomechanical principles to throw and strike (transfer of weight, angle of trajectory)

 

 

Basic tactics and strategies to achieve identified goals:

·       deny space and time

-     minimise runs scored against team by fielding a ball quickly

-     increase number of players ‘home’ by stealing between the bases

-     move to centre of court in racquet sports

·       create space and time

-     move to a space to receive a pass

-     use the body to protect the ball

-     reduce course time in orienteering by using the strategy of ‘aiming off’

·       utilise environmental conditions

-     paddle against the wind when fresh and with the wind when tired

-     shorten stride when running into the wind or uphill, lengthen stride when running with the wind or                             downhill

·       use short passes in ball games in windy conditions

·       use low passing shots rather than lobs in windy conditions

 

 

Activities that contribute to particular components of health-related fitness:

·       continuous running, swimming, cycling and aerobic dance contribute to cardio-respiratory endurance

·       regular stretching of body joints contributes to flexibility

·       lifting weights, pushing medicine balls and participating in weight-bearing activities that use the arms and legs contribute to muscular strength and endurance

 

Images that influence participation in, and attitudes towards, physical activity:

·       images of gymnasts as elite performers as slim prepubescent girls

·       images of footballers as strong, solid body types

·       portrayal of male and female participants as athletic, tanned, toned

·       images of lawn bowlers as elderly, passive and having low fitness levels

·       limited images of, or lack of role models for, the disabled

·       images of golfers portraying the game as elitist and for the wealthy

·       images of elite athletes only, suggesting that participants must be highly skilled

·       lack of images of people from a range of cultural backgrounds