Astronomy: performance skills
I can apply technical and expressive skills to improve my performance.
Astronomy: performance skills
I can apply technical and expressive skills to improve my performance.
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Lesson details
Key learning points
- Move: applying and rehearsing technical skills improves accuracy in performance.
- Think: anticipating how an action looks to others involves imagination.
- Feel: giving feedback to others requires self-belief in our knowledge and opinions.
- Connect: giving and receiving feedback involves trust and cooperation from all involved.
Keywords
Extension - lengthening through the limbs and/or torso
Expressive - a set of skills that communicate character, mood or atmosphere
Performance - the act of showing work to an audience
Common misconception
The pupils should only use ideas introduced by the teacher.
Cross curricular lessons offer scope for pupils to include additional content by bringing, sharing and consolidating subject knowledge from other curriculum areas. Enabling pupils to expand the action content will increase motivation and engagement.
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Astronomy: performance skills, download all teaching resources for free and adapt to suit your pupils' needs...
To help you plan your year 10 physical education lesson on: Astronomy: performance skills, 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.
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The assessment exit quiz will test your pupils' understanding of the key learning points.
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Equipment
suggested music
Content guidance
- Risk assessment required - physical activity
Supervision
Adult supervision required
