Fitness challenges as a team
Lesson details
Learning outcome
I can contribute to team fitness challenges by performing exercises to the best of my ability.
Key learning points
- Move: running fast requires you to slightly lean forwards, keep your head up and pump the arms and legs simultaneously.
- Think: fitness is having the speed, strength and stamina to meet the needs of the activity.
- Feel: completing a task with positive outcomes can lead to a sense of accomplishment.
- Connect: collaboration involves working as a team to meet shared goals or outcomes.
Keywords
Fitness - your ability to meet the needs of the activity using speed, strength and stamina
Success - the accomplishment of an aim or purpose
Endurance - the ability to keep going for a long period of sustained exercise (also known as stamina)
Common misconception
Believing that hard work involves rushing to complete the maximum number of repetitions but with poor form.
Doing less movements with the correct technique will have a more positive impact on fitness than blasting out lots with poor form/range of movement.
Teacher tip
Prepare Learning Cycle 2 in advance by printing Additional materials pages 2 and 3, cutting the pictures out and sticking them under your cones so it is quick to place them out.
Equipment
whiteboard and pen per team of 4-5 pupils, 1 mat between 2, 12 cones, page 1 of Additional materials, 1 between 2, Page 2 of Additional materials printed, cut up and stuck under cones, 1 mat between 2
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 happens to our heart rate, breathing rate and temperature during exercise?
Q2.When things are challenging, what do we need to enable us to keep going?
Q3.What can we provide for others to help them keep going to achieve higher outcomes?
Q4.To continue working for an extended period of time, what do we need to apply?
Assessment exit quiz
4 Questions
Q1.What should our upper body position look like when running fast?
Q2.To meet the needs of the activity, which components of fitness are most important?
Q3.Which skills enable us to be good at collaborating?
Q4.Completing a task with positive outcomes can lead to ...
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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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