Trials and team selection for a sport education season
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can take part in a range of athletics activities and identify where my confidence levels are.
Key learning points
- Move: an optimal stride balances speed and efficiency, with each foot landing under your body, reducing injury risk.
- Think: having a positive mindset to trying a range of activities helps to understand your physical activity preferences.
- Feel: trying new activities helps to build self-belief in your ability to perform.
- Connect: recognising when athletes give their best, regardless of outcome, will help to build confidence and motivation.
Keywords
Mindset - staying positive, focused and determined, believing in your ability to improve and succeed, even when finding things difficult
Effort - trying your hardest, staying determined and working hard to do your best, no matter what the outcome is
Sporting behaviour - competing fairly, following rules, respecting everyone, cheering others on and accepting wins or losses positively
Common misconception
A trial is where people are judged to see who makes the cut and who doesn't.
A trial is an opportunity for everyone to show what they can do and also learn where they could focus on as priority areas for improvement.
Teacher tip
This lesson is a diagnostic assessment of prior learning on basic pacing, sprinting, jumping and throwing to inform future groupings to ensure balanced competition for the remainder of the sport education season. It works well to introduce all learning cycles and rotate pupils on a carousel.
Equipment
30+ cones; 10+ stopwatches; tape measures; lesson worksheet
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What does confidence mean?
Q2.What can being part of a team build?
Q3.What are the core athletic activities?
Q4.Which word best describes sporting behaviour?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What should your effort level be in continuous running?
Q2.What does good sporting behaviour include?
Q3.How can we support others to achieve their personal best?
Q4.What does taking part in trails allow us to identify?
To help you plan your 8 physical education lesson on: Trials and team selection for a sport education season, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 8 physical education lesson on: Trials and team selection for a sport education season, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs.
The starter quiz will activate and check your pupils' prior knowledge, with versions available both with and without answers in PDF format.
We use learning cycles to break down learning into key concepts or ideas linked to the learning outcome. Each learning cycle features explanations with checks for understanding and practice tasks with feedback. All of this is found in our slide decks, ready for you to download and edit. The practice tasks are also available as printable worksheets and some lessons have additional materials with extra material you might need for teaching the lesson.
The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
Our video is a tool for planning, showing how other teachers might teach the lesson, offering helpful tips, modelled explanations and inspiration for your own delivery in the classroom.
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