Scheme of Work
KS4
GCSE P.E.
Session
Learning Outcomes
Suggested activities
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Know the role of agonistic and antagonistic pairs and relate to
sporting movements.
1.
Origin/Insertion
Fast twitch and slow twitch
2.
Posture and Muscle tone and their importance in health and
fitness.
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Label the muscles on a
poster/picture of a
sportsperson.
Put class into groups and
give a picture of a sporting
movement that is occurring
(enough to cover all
muscles). Get each group to
identify what muscles are
creating the movement.
Take to fitness suite and
design/match up
machines/exercises linked to
muscles.
In the fitness suite
demonstrate to students the
bicep curl and discuss the
role of the agonist and
antagonist.
Students go around the
fitness suite machines and
write down the agonist and
antagonist of each machine.
In and discuss results.
Ensure students know the
definition and role of both
ag and antag.
Identify and discuss
- Pecs and lats
- Bicep and tricep
- Quadriceps and
hamstrings
- Trapezius and deltoids
Discuss the difference
between fast twitch and slow
twitch fibres and the sports
Resources
Assessment
Activities
Sticky labels
Pictures of sporting
movements (A4)
Muscle pack
Fitness suite
Link each muscle with
one type of movement
during an action in a
stated sport. E.g.
quadriceps flexing to
extend the knee to kick
a football.
Worksheets
Pencils
Fitness suite
Extended writing
opportunity with mark
scheme ‘in your own
words, describe how
muscles work in pairs
(6 marks)’.
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GCSE P.E.
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Isometric and isotonic contractions and sport example
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Short term effects of exercise on the muscles
Increased fuel/energy demands/lactic acid/muscle fatigue.
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Long term effects of exercise
1. Increased strength and size/hypertrophy
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3.
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Muscular Injuries
Strains and atrophy – how caused, symptoms and treatments.
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they are best suited to and
why.
Discuss the importance of
muscle tone and posture in
health and fitness.
Students compete in a
number of sporting
movements and after
identify the types of
contractions that have
occurred.
Ensure know definition of
contractions.
Students take part in a
vigorous activity session
(interval sprints/circuit
session) and write down
how their body/muscles are
feeling.
Discussion of effects of
exercise and why they
happen (could be a card
matching activity)
Students given a picture of
before and after photo of
somebody who has
increased muscle mass
through training.
Theory work on how
muscular hypertrophy
occurs and type of training
that increases strength and
muscle mass and why.
Students could take part in a
strength circuit and discuss
feeling of their muscles as a
starter point.
Picture game/brainstorm
ideas to identify types of
muscular injuries.
Worksheets
Cones
Tape measure
Pencils
Sports equipment
Choose four sporting
examples of each type
of contraction, stating
which muscle is
contracting in each.
Create exercise
sessions for a training
programme for
improving strength and
endurance
Describe and explain
the cause and treatment
of the 3 types of injury
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GCSE P.E.
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Training and performance
1. Rest - rest required for adaptation to take place, time
for recovery before next exercise session
2. Diet - effects of protein in building and repairing
muscles
3. performance enhancing drugs - use of steroids to aid
muscle building and recovery.
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2.
3.
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1.2.5
Role of Skeletal System in Physical Activity
Functions – movement/support/protection during physical
activity
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2.
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Joint movements - flexion, extension, rotation, abduction,
adduction at :Hinge – knee and elbow
Ball and Socket – shoulder
Linked to sporting activities.
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Long term effects of exercise
1. Increased bone density
2. Increased strength of tendons and ligaments
3. Importance of weight bearing exercise
(walking/running/tennis/aerobics) to prevent
osteoporosis.
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3.
Students in groups given
injury scenarios and
experience treatment of
injuries.
Students design a strength
training programme for an
individual and justify their
thoughts on reps/sets/times.
Theory behind rest periods
and overtraining.
Importance of protein in
diet. Students design an
ideal days meal for a body
builder.
Intro to steroids – pros and
cons.
Students watch a number of
video clips of a range of
sporting activities and have
to name the functions of the
skeleton.
Individually students give
their own sport example of
how these functions help
improve performance.
Introduction of the types of
joints and types of
movements.
Students design and deliver
a yoga/aerobic/warm up
routine that incorporates all
of them.
Brainstorm what students
think happens to bones and
joints after prolonged
exercise.
Theory and advantages of
the effects.
Intro and experience of
weight bearing exercise and
highlight the advantages.
associated with the
muscular system.
Discuss the different
factors associated with
maintaining a healthy
lifestyle, and potential
performance enhancing
drugs athletes may
come across.
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GCSE P.E.
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Injuries and causes
1. Fractures (compound, greenstick, simple, stress)
2. Joint (tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, dislocation, sprain,
torn cartilage)
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Treatment of injuries
1. Fractures (compound, greenstick, simple, stress)
2. Joint (tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow, dislocation, sprain,
torn cartilage)
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diet (effect of calcium and vitamin D on bones).
Intro and visual of the
dangers that osteoporosis
will cause.
1. Students match injuries to
pics on the board.
2. Video clip highlighting
some of the injuries in
action.
3. Brainstorm/group activity on
highlighting the symptoms
of different types of injuries.
4. Students to create scenarios
where the different injuries
occur.
1. Students take part in
scenario based activity
whereby they have attended
an accident and have to treat
them.
Introduction of calcium and vitamin
D.
Students create individual poster
highlighting the importance of them
and what foods are high in those
compounds.