Physical Education

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Key unit competence: By the end of this unit, students will be able to perform exercises of rolling safely and refining techniques.

Learning objectives:

Knowledge and understanding
 State types of rolling and its importance to the body.
 Explain the importance of physical exercises for circulatory and respiratory systems.
 Identify the basic techniques in gymnastics.

Skills to develop:
 Perform different aerobic exercises.
 Develop basic techniques in gymnastic.
 Use gymnastics equipment appropriately  Take account of their own safety and that of others during gymnastics
 Coordination.

Attitudes and values:
 Endurance
 Perception
 Precision
 Creativity
 Fair play
 Self confidence

Number of lessons: 2
By the end of this unit, learners should be able to demonstrate basic exercises.

LESSON 1: ROLLING EXERCISES

Lesson objective
By the end of the lesson,learners should be able to perform the forward roll perfectly.

Teaching methods:

 Demonstration
 Guided discovery
 Instruction
 Command

Teaching materials:

 Mat
 Playground
 Stopwatch

Lesson Development:

 Asking one learner to lead others in warm-up exercises. This may include jogging, stretching.
 Instructing learners to perform forward roll and backward roll following the steps below;
– Lowering the body towards ground with straight legs by hands following body down.
– Keeping chin on chest and making back round.
– Placing hands fl at on ground with thumbs close to ears. Legs locked straight.
– Using strong arm movement pushing body to upright position.
– Keeping legs in pike and putting feed down first and using momentum to move to standing
position.

Assessment
 Set the learners to perform various rolling exercises.
Relaxation
 Command learners to sit down in circle and swing hands left and right, up and down.
Final discussion
 What steps did you go through while performing the forward and backroll.
 How are rolls important in our daily life?

LESSON 2: AEROBIC PROLONGED EXERCISES

Lesson objective
By the end of the lesson,learners should be able to gymnaestic exercises following sagital plane
movements.

Teaching methods:

 Instruction
 Guided discovery
 Command
 Explanation

Teaching materials:

 Cones
 Playground
 Stopwatch
 Dumbbells

Teaching points for rotational exercise:  Briefing learners about the importance of performing rotational exercise. Tell them that in every day life, we move forward and backwards, we also move side to side. We move up and down. We rotate. This means, we move in every direction. This calls for flexibility to be able to use our bodies well in all directions of movement.
 Telling learners about the planes of motion that we move in everyday life.
– Right and left (flexion and extension) here you can move forward and backward or up and down. It is also called sagittal plane movements.
– Front and backside movement. (abduction and adduction) Here one can move side to side, This is called frontal plane movement.
– Top and bottom halves movements. This is movement in the transverse which is both internal and external rotation.
– Instructing learners to perform the following sagittal plane movements.

Note: All the above exercises are done after learners have warmed-up their bodies. This can be done by engaging in around the play field jogging, leg, arm, trunk stretch. Tell learners not to rotate or stretch their bodies beyond their limit.

General assessment
Set learners various acrobic exercises to perform and evoluate their level of achievement.
Relaxation
 In what sport activity can you use transverse movement.
 What are the benefits of performing plane movements.
Final discussion
Guide the learners to discuss the values of gymnastics in our daliy life so that they can be able to apply them.
Ask the learners how gymnastic exercises can be useful to them in their daily life.

Unit summary
In this unit, you have taught about performing different exercises of gymnastic movement done on the ground and gymnastics exercises using apparatus.
In the next unit, you are going to teach about athletics performing different techniques stressing their importance.

Glossary
Rolling : Turning over
Clasping : To hold some thing very tightly in your hands