PART III: UNIT DEVELOPMENT :UNIT 1 :GYMNASTICS
Key unit competence: Apply rules and regulations of Gymnastic.
1.1 Prerequisite (Knowledge, skills, attitudes and values)
Students of senior six will learn better Gymnastic rules if they can perform
ground and apparatus gymnastics learnt in senior four.
1.2 Cross-cutting issues to be addressed
• Gender:
In teaching and learning of Gymnastics rules, the teacher must prepare and
provide activities that engage both girls and boys equally to exploit their full
potential and talents without any discrimination or prejudice.
• Inclusive education:
The teacher as a facilitator he/she must consider different special education
needs and select physical activities to adapt his teaching approaches to all
students. This creates a positive attitude and helps all learners to participate
actively and develop their competence levels.
• Financial education:
The teacher should integrate Financial Education into his teaching/learning
activities by providing the local and no cost teaching material where is possible.
He/she must encourage students to make their own materials that can help
them to develop competences not only in sport at school but also in their daily life.
• Standardization culture:
The teacher must choose and select the standardized materials to use in his/
her teaching/learning process. It is necessary to provide appropriate materials
required to the levels of students and help them to develop culture of checking
and using the quality of sport materials for the competitions before to use them
in order to prevent injuries and other accident.
• Environment and sustainability:
The teacher should provide materials and deliver the lesson with encouraging
students to protect the environment and well use of materials. The teacher
helps them to develop the spirit of keeping safe the environment they use in
sports activities.
• Peace and values education:
The teacher helps students to develop fair play and social values by planning
physical activities that Avoid violence and conflict in the game and by setting
clear and relevant instructions. He/she should provide the activities that help
students to develop their competence peacefully.
• Comprehensive sexuality education:
A teacher provides physical activities and sets instructions that prevent sexual
harassment, any kind of gender based violence like sexual abuse and physical
contacts oriented to the sexuality intention.
• Genocide studies:
While conducting gymnastics rules lesson a teacher should take a time to explain
students how sports should be used to fight against Genocide ideology and
how to prevent it. For example, to organize Genocide memorial tournaments at
school and give the message related to the Genocide.
1.3. Guidance on introductory activity
Before introducing the lesson one of this unit, teacher must introduce the whole
unit. The teacher as a guide, facilitator and expert, ask questions or give activity
related to Gymnastics exercises in order to help them to predict what to belearnt in the whole unit.
1.4. List of lessons/sub-heading
Lesson 1: Gymnastics exercises rules
a) Learning objective
List and explain elements of ground and apparatus gymnastics rules.
b) Teaching resources
Books, internet videos, pictures on manila paper, projector and laptop.
c) Prerequisites/Revision/Introduction
Student of senior six will learn better Gymnastics rules if they can perform ground
and apparatus gymnastics learnt in senior four.
d) Learning activities
Opening discussions
Teacher as a facilitator and a guider facilitates students in the following ways:
– Ask questions about types of ground and apparatus gymnastics exercises
learnt in senior four.
– Introduce the lesson of the day by asking question related to gymnastics
rules, like to brainstorm different rules and regulations to follow when
executing gymnastics exercises.e) Lesson body
Application activity 1.1
Divide students into 5 groups, and distribute to them questions in the table
based on group numbers and let them discuss given questions into their
respective groups. Distribute Gymnastics rules for each group based on
questions given and facilitate students to get resources (if possible, you may
use smart classroom and let them use soft copy of gymnastics rules, videosshowing officiating procedures etc.)
Pass though groups and help them where is necessary. Request students to
choose a secretary to record their findings and group representative who will
present their findings.– Request group representative to present their findings and group members
may support where is necessary.
– After presentation of all groups, use a projector to recap presentations,
show them different event format used in gymnastics competition.
Closing discussions (RCA)/ Conclusion
Summarize the lesson on different rules in gymnastics (event format, scoring,
teams and players, fouls and penalties) and ask students to write them in their
notebooks.
Lesson 2: Officiate a gymnastic competition
a) Learning objective
Interpret elements of apparatus and ground gymnastics during gymnastics
competition.
b) Teaching resources
Parallel bar, Horizontal bar, Playground.
c) Prerequisites/Revision/Introduction
Student of senior six will better officiate a Gymnastics competition if they can
list and explain element of gymnastics rules learnt in lesson one of this unit.
d) Learning activities
Opening discussions
– Ask questions related to gymnastics rules learned in lesson 1 in this unit.
– Let students answer asked questions and support their answers where is
necessary.
– Introduce the new lesson and invite students to start warm up.
Warm up exercises
– Let students perform general warm up exercises and specific warm up
based on the most body’s parts to be used while performing gymnastics
exercises and stretch their muscles properly.
– One student can lead warm up and stretching exercises.
e) Lesson body
Activity 1.2
Competition situation
– Organize a gymnastic competition between students of the same class.
– Form three groups A, B and C of students. Competition is organized in
this way:
Group A and B will be players and compete on floor ground gymnastics
exercises and apparatus exercises), C group will act as officials by providing:
judges other remaining players will record fouls and misconduct happened
and how officials have been reacted for those fouls and misconducts.
Points to be inspected by judges are:
– How difficulty exercise was.
– How exercises are being executed.
– Fouls made by players and penalties to be given.
Rotate groups until everyone have been a player and a judge.
Or Prepare a video of Olympic gymnastics competition or world championship,
and present if to students and ask them to judge the gymnasts performing in
that video. Each student must have a pen and note book, they must take note on
what they can do according to the performance of each athlete, and after they
must give score accordingly.
Points to check are:
How difficulty exercise was;
How exercises are being executed;Fouls made by players and penalties to be given.
Cool down
Choose one student to lead cool down and invite them to start after Competition
discussion.
1.5 additional information for tutors
Gymnastics, is a competitive sport in which individuals perform optional
and prescribed acrobatic exercises, mostly on special apparatus, in order to
demonstrate strength, balance, and body control.
It is a part of the ancient Olympic Games; gymnastics was virtually reinvented in
the modern era by the German Friedrich Jahn (1778–1852). The sport became
part of the revived Olympics in 1896; women’s gymnastics was instituted in
1936. Men’s events include the horizontal bar, parallel bars, pommel horse,
vaulting, rings, and floor exercises. Women’s events include the balance beam,
uneven parallel bars, vaulting, floor exercises, and rhythmic sportive gymnastics.
A lot of gyms will not allow you to participate in gymnastics if you don’t wear an
appropriate attire/clothes. Attire is not only a requirement to meet the standards
of a gym or competition but it is required for safety.
Loose clothing and gymnastics are a match that do not go well together, as a
baggy clothes can get in your way and lead you to injure yourself.
Girls: Wear either a leotard or biketard during a competition.
Boys: Wear t-shits that are tucked into pair of pants or shorts that are not baggy
will do the trick.
– No shoes are allowed on gym floor; bare feet or beam shoes are recommended
to avoid injuries or damaging the gymnastics floor.
– Jewelry are not allowed during competition or training.
– Gymnastics can either compete in a team or as an individual. There is a
team competition, an all- round competition and individual competition
for each event. The team event consists of four athletes, with three of them
competing in each event. There is a specific order in which athletes rotate
between apparatuses.– Women’s gymnastics consists of vault, bars, beam and floor.
– Men’s gymnastics consists of floor, pommel horse, rings, vault, parallel
bars and high bar.
– Athletes are scored on both difficulty and execution. The score is determined
based on the execution and an artistry of routine with deductions for falls,
errors in technique and execution. Deductions range from 0.1 to1.0. errors
such as tie violations, stepping out of bounds, behavior faults, or falls are
penalized using neutral deductions.
– Gymnastics meet have no set time limit, but finish when every athletes has
performed on their specific event.
– Penalties are deciding by the judges, with the most common penalties
coming from a fall off an apparatus.
– The Jury is composed by the D-panel that judges the difficulty of an exercise,
and the E-panel that judges the execution of an exercises, and the R-panel
(or reference panel) that acts as a check on the athlete with the highestscore after everyone competes is named the winner.
1.6 End of unit assessment
Prepare a video demonstrating a gymnasts performing floor exercises
(ground gymnastics exercises) or apparatus gymnastics exercises, and
present it to the students in smart classroom. Students must watch the
video and decide the winner of the competition by providing the score and
penalties each athlete received and why he received it. This work is doneindividually.
1.7 Additional activities
Remedial activities
In groups, students watch a gymnastics video and identify and explain
elements of ground and apparatus rules and regulations.
Consolidation activities
Participate in competitions between small groups at school and choose
records.
Extended activities
their own officials to be parts of the jury to judge the performance and make
Organize a school competition of gymnastics (apparatus and ground
exercises) and asks students to become members of jury that is officiatingthe competition