Physical Education Department
11 Physical Education
Unit 4
Semester 2, 2014
Focus Area A:
Learning Physical Skills –Biomechanics
STUDENT:
PC:
TEACHER:
Miss Ramsay
Key Dates:
Issue Date:
13 October, 2014
Draft Date:
30 October, 2014
Due Date:
12 November, 2014
Assessment Type:
Research Report
Instrument Number:
4a
Task Dimensions:
Acquire, Apply, Evaluate
Task Instructions
See following pages
Task Conditions:
Length: 800 -1000 words
Maximum of 1 draft per student - Teacher
Consultation and feedback allowed
Individual effort
Information from external sources must be referenced
using a Reference List.
Common Curriculum Elements embedded in this task:
Comprehend & Collect
Structure & Sequence
Analyse, Assess & Conclude
Create and Present
3. Recalling/Remembering
31. Interrelating
ideas/themes/issues
21. Structuring/organising
extended written text
30. Classifying
41, Hypothesising
43. Analysing
45. Judging/evaluating
48. Justifying
9. Using correct spelling,
punctuation, grammar
10. Using vocabulary appropriate
to a context
20. Setting out/displaying
St John Fisher College – Year 11 Physical Education
AUTHENTICITY STATEMENT:
I declare that the work submitted is my own and no part is written or
produced for me by any other person. The plan and draft/s that I have
submitted clearly reveal the development of my response.
I have
acknowledged in the task any other person/s that has provided assistance. Any
materials I have used in developing my response have been acknowledged
using the school referencing system.
Student Signature: ____________________
Date: __________
RESULTS:
Dimension
Standard Awarded
Knowledge Processes
Evaluative Processes
Research and Communication
Topic: Focus Area A
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St John Fisher College – Year 11 Physical Education
Task Focus:
During this unit you will be learning various lifesaving techniques and rescues which will be
performed in still water. An efficient freestyle technique is both streamline and powerful.
Proficiency in the freestyle swimming stroke is necessary in lifesaving to reach a struggling
swimmer as quickly as possible.
Task:
To complete a research report (800 – 1000 words). Conduct a biomechanical analysis of
your performance in freestyle to improve your technique. This will allow for improvement in
performance for the completion of a timed tow.
TASK GUIDELINES:
1. Videotape yourself executing a freestyle swim.
2. Using the video as feedback and other resources, analyse your performance to
identify:
 any technical problems you experience and
 what you do well in the execution of the skill.
3. Support your biomechanical analysis justifying your selection.
4. After two weeks of training, videotape yourself executing the skill again.
5. Evaluate the second performance of the skill in comparison to the first, identifying
areas of improvement within the execution of the skill and evaluate how this affects
your overall performance of the skill.
6. COMPLETE THE WRITTEN REPORT
Cover page.
Contents.
(a) Introduction – general performance in lifesaving more specifically freestyle.
(b) Analyse the skill in terms of elements of technique.
(c) Evaluate your initial execution of the skill using biomechanical terminology
and principles
(i) Compare and contrast your initial performance of the skill with the
ideal performance model.
(ii) Identify and comment on technical problems
(iii) Identify the things you do well (ie: your level of skill acquisition)
(d) Evaluate your second execution of the skill
(i) Compare and contrast with the initial performance
(ii) Discuss improvement in technical problems
(e) Conclusion - Biomechanically evaluate how this affects your overall
performance.
Bibliography
N.B. Throughout this report you are being assessed on the range of relevant
biomechanical principles you can identify, how you apply these to explain your
freestyle performance on both occasions, and evaluate how they affect the time taken
for you to complete your timed tow.
Topic: Focus Area A
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ST JOHN FISHER COLLEGE
Year 11 Physical Education
Research Report
LEARNING PHYSICAL SKILLS
Biomechanics and Lifesaving
4a
Assessment Task
DIMENSION
A
ACQUIRING
The student work has the
following characteristics:
 In-depth comprehension
of a wide range of
terminologies, principles
and concepts relevant to
the biomechanical
principles specific to the
performance of freestyle.
 Sustained and accurate
use of appropriate textual
features.
B
APPLYING
D
E
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
 Comprehension of a range
of terminologies, principles
& concepts relevant to the
biomechanical principles
specific to the
performance of freestyle.
 Comprehension of
fundamental
terminologies, principles
and facts relevant to the
biomechanical principles
specific to the
performance of freestyle.
 Recognition of simple
terminologies, principles
or facts relevant to the
biomechanical principles
specific to the
performance of freestyle.
 Recognition of some
information associated with
the biomechanical
principles specific to the
performance of freestyle.
 Accurate use of
appropriate textual
features
DIMENSION
A
STANDARDS
C
B
 Use of appropriate textual
features.
STANDARD
C
 Use of textual features.
D
 Use of texts.
E
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
 Insightful, independent and
appropriate analysis and
application of information
relating to the differences
in own initial performance
of the freestyle swim and
the ideal performance as
well as improvements
made using biomechanical
principles.
 Independent and
appropriate analysis and
application of information
relating to the differences
in own initial performance
of the freestyle swim and
the ideal performance as
well as improvements
made using biomechanical
principles.
 Appropriate analysis and
application of information
relating to the differences
in own initial performance
of the freestyle swim and
the ideal performance as
well as improvements
made using
biomechanical principles.
 Comparison and
categorisation of
information relating to the
differences in own initial
performance of the
freestyle swim and the
ideal performance as well
as improvements made
using biomechanical
principles.
 Comparison or
categorisation of
information with
assistance.
 Purposeful and effective
selection, sequencing and
organisation of relevant
and substantial subject
matter.
 Purposeful selection,
sequencing and
organisation of relevant
and substantial subject
matter.
 Suitable selection,
sequencing and
organisation of relevant
subject matter.
 Selection and sequencing
of subject matter.
 Selection of basic subject
matter.
DIMENSION
EVALUATING
A
Overall Results
Comments:
B
STANDARDS
C
D
E
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
The student work has the
following characteristics:
 Discerning, convincingly
justified and independent
evaluations, solutions and
recommendations
concerning the application
of biomechanical changes
to own performance.
 Justified and independent
evaluations, solutions and
recommendations
concerning the application
of biomechanical changes
to own performance.
 Defended evaluations and
solutions concerning the
application of
biomechanical changes to
own performance.
 Superficial evaluations or
solutions concerning the
application of
biomechanical changes
to own performance.
 Directed responses to
problems concerning the
application of
biomechanical changes
to own performance.
 Discerning and effective
choice of communication
strategies to enhance
meaning and impact.
 Effective choice of
communication strategies
that enhance meaning and
impact.
 Effective choice of
communicative strategies
that convey meaning.
 Communication
strategies that convey
meaning.
 Communication of some
meaning.
Acquire
Apply
Evaluate