ITV is getting ready for another year of celebrities hitting our screens to face their demons, mainly snakes and creepy crawlies, for our entertainment. For some students, extended questions may be their demon but they can’t shout “I’m a celebrity get me out of here!” in their exams.
Let’s get your students to face their fears head on and gain the confidence to achieve higher marks in their exams. Answer Perfect has linked PE and extended writing into the curriculum to create some fun and engaging teaching and learning resources, let us walk you through them…
#1 Wheel Of Doom…
The ‘Wheel of Doom’ is a practical bushtucker trial aimed at all practical PE lessons throughout Key Stages 3 and 4. You can download a copy of our example session here. Students are challenged to an interval training session, which can also be linked to training methods in GCSE.
The wheel has multiple spaces for different exercises e.g. spider squats, potent press ups. Spin the wheel to decide the first exercise for the students to complete and the work:rest time can be set based on existing fitness levels. Students could work individually or in groups to win stars by putting in the most effort each round. At the end of the session, the winner will have achieved the most stars. Why not bring your Design and Technology department into this by creating mini acrylic stars which you can use over and over again?
This fitness trial has been tried and tested and students absolutely love it! It is a great way to bring theory into practical lessons and build up students’ knowledge and understanding from Year 7 upwards adjusting the session and content to suit the ability and fitness levels of the students in your class. It is so easy to link in easy topics such as training methods, principles of training, planes and axis, and anatomy and physiology and begin to make cross curricular links with Biology and even Maths for the timing of the exercises.
Why not challenge GCSE PE students to create their own fitness ‘Wheel of Doom’ for specific athletes? Challenge them to apply the FITT principles of training and become Ant and Dec themselves.
Why stop there?
#2 Wheel Of Words…
After the practical lesson, you can follow up and reinforce learning with a second bushtucker trial that we like to call the ‘Wheel of Words’. An exciting way to create extended questions for students to practice applying their knowledge to different examples and writing the perfect answer.
You start by creating 3 wheels:
- Command Words
- Training Methods or Principles of Training
- Application e.g. swimmer, 100m sprinter etc
Next, spin each wheel in turn to reveal the command word, topic and focus area and devise an extended question to answer. It is an engaging and exciting way for the students to be involved in creating the extended questions and it provides them with the opportunity to practice answering in different ways depending on the command word used.
You can download the AQA Command Words and definitions here to use as a help sheet for students studying this exam board. All exam boards have their own version on their website and it is important that students have access to these throughout the course so that they can increase their familiarity with the definitions.
Wheel 1 – Command Words
- Describe
- Evaluate
- Analyse
- Explain
- Justify
Wheel 2 – Topic
- Interval training
- Circuit training
- Principles of training
- Frequency
- Intensity
- Time
- Type
Wheel 3 – Focus/Application
- Footballer
- Netballer
- Weight lifter
- 100m sprinter
- Endurance Swimmer
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