Photo finish and all aboard
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can operate as a valuable team member ensuring everyone feels valued and included.
Key learning points
- Move: coordination is essential for maintaining control and allowing smooth transitions between movements.
- Move: balance is required to transfer weight forward onto the other foot in time with others.
- Think: everyone needs to be clear on the task and focused to achieve it together.
- Feel: valuing others shapes how we interact with people and builds meaningful positive relationships.
- Connect: coordinating movements to be in time becomes tougher as group size increases.
Keywords
Value - recognising the importance, worth or usefulness of something/someone
Inclusion - providing equal access to opportunities to everyone and ensuring they have a voice
Resilience - the ability to withstand or recover quickly from difficulties.
Common misconception
Rushing to complete the task and therforemfailing to listen to, or consider, all group members.
Together Everyone Achieves More, it is essential to work as a TEAM and ensure everyone is valued.
Teacher tip
Allow the first game of capture the flag to get started straight away without insisting on time to strategise. Come back together after game one to address the mistakes they inevitably will make, which links to the misconception.
Equipment
2x hoops and 2x buckets per 6 pupils, stopwatches, plastic cups, rope / chalk
Content guidance
Risk assessment required - outdoor learning
Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
Licence
Prior knowledge starter quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What does the word ‘pacing’ mean in a sport or physical activity context?
Q2.What can challenging ourselves beyond our comfort zone enable us to develop?
Q3.When our opposition changes their strategy, what must we do in response?
Q4.What important part of a team strategy is often forgotten?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What does everyone achieve when they work together?
Q2.What is the most important thing about a task to ensure that everyone can achieve it together?
Q3.If you have good coordination, what will your physical movements look like?
Q4.Why is valuing our team mates contributions so important?
To help you plan your 8 physical education lesson on: Photo finish and all aboard, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your 8 physical education lesson on: Photo finish and all aboard, 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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