Myths about teaching can hold you back
- Year 8
- Year 8
Balanced competition
I can respectfully participate in balanced competition.
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Lesson details
Key learning 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.
- 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.
Keywords
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 misconception
Pupils seek the easiest opportunity to guarantee a win.
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.
To help you plan your year 8 physical education lesson on: Balanced competition, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 8 physical education lesson on: Balanced competition, 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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Equipment
30+ cones; selection of balls that could include footballs, handballs, basketballs, tennis balls etc.
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
