Physical Education and Sports

1.1 Key unit competence

Perform muscular exercises and gymnastic movement with agility and flexibility.

1.2. Prerequisite knowledge and skills

Learners of senior three will learn better physical conditioning if they can perform

muscular and different gymnastic exercises with agility and flexibility.

1.3. Cross- cutting issues to be addressed

Gender Education

In teaching and learning process, the teacher must prepare and provide physical

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 must consider different special education needs and select

activities to adapt his teaching approaches to learners. 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 activity by

providing the local and no cost teaching material where possible. He must encourage

learners to make their own materials that can help them to develop competences not

only in sport but also in their life.

Standardization culture

The teacher must select the standardized materials to use in his teaching/learning

process. It is necessary to provide appropriate materials required to the levels of

learners and help them to develop culture of checking the quality of sport materials

before their use to prevent injuries and other accident.

Environment and sustainability

The teacher should provide materials and deliver the lesson by encouraging learners

to protect the environment and proper use of materials. The teacher helps them to

develop fair play avoiding violence in the game.

Peace and values education

The teacher helps learners to develop fair play and avoiding violence and conflict in the

game by setting clear and relevant instructions. He should provide the activities that

help learners 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 “bad touches”.

1.4. List of lessons and assessment

Lesson 1: Motor control and balance exercises

a. Prerequisites

Learners of senior three will learn better motor control and balance exercises if they

can execute muscular development exercises, create physical exercises and explain the

importance of physical exercises to the body.

b. Teaching resources

Playground, whistle, rope, stick, mat

c. Introduction

Opening discussions

Ask questions related to physical and muscular development exercises based on motor

control and balance.

Example of questions

What sports do you like to practice?

What is the importance of motor exercises?

Why is it necessary to do body balance exercises?

What are other reasons of motor development?

Warm-up activities

Organizing learners and telling them to perform exercises of activating the body by

jogging around the ground with different speed, jump, swing the arms alternatively

forward and backward, clap hands, roll and throw with or without the ball, specifically

according to the lesson and teacher’s instructions. Let one of learners to lead stretching

exercise systematically according to the target. 

                                       Learners are performing warm up exercises

d. Lesson development

Motor control and balance exercises include balance techniques, jumping rope, push

up, suppleness and dancing techniques.

For each technique :

• Show learners how to execute the basic skills

• Let learners to practice based on instructions, materials and provide necessary

support

Balance technique

• Standing on one leg while arms are opened at 90 degrees

• Changing the leg after 10 seconds

• Stand in bending position while arms are joined straightly in front direction

• Keep free leg straightly in backward position.

• Stand on one leg while arms are joined upward

• Keep the free leg in front direction makes 90 degrees

• Changing the leg after 10 seconds. 

Jumping rope technique

• Organizing learners in rows with ropes

• Moving forward while jumping the ropes passed over the head

• Increase speed according to teacher’s signals on a distance of 50 meters and turn

Push up technique

• Organizing learners in distant rows

• Lie on ventral position

• Put palms on the flow

• Maintain the position while arms are straight and lift their body and balance on

palms

• Bend the elbows and lowering the entire body until upper arms are parallel to

the floor

• Push back-up

Suppleness technique

• Tell learners to perform stretching exercises focusing on different parts of the

body. Cervical, pelvic, scapular, thoracic areas, abdomen, upper and lower limbs

to develop suppleness.

• Tell learners to perform exercises of balancing by standing on one leg while arms

are opened at 90 degrees and change the leg after 10 seconds. 

• Tell learners to perform exercises of balancing by extending legs while arms are

opened at 90 degrees and keeping head up.

• Tell learners to make flexion of legs and decrease angles’ size according to

teacher’s signals.

• Tell learners to make flexion of left leg while the right one is opened straightly

and change the side according to teacher’s signals.

Dancing technique

• Organizing learners in rows

• Tell learners to listen to traditional and modern dances using selected music

using radio

• Tell learners to make movement following the rhythm of the song

• Tell learners to perform traditional and modern dances using selected music and

make more repetitions

Cool-down activities

March on the ground while arms are relaxing and moving in different directions,

swing the arms forward and backward, clap hands, jog, stretch, jump change activity

according to teacher’s signals.

E. Assessment

Final discussion

Reflect

• What are challenges/ advantages to perform motor control and balance exercises?

• How did you proceed to achieve physical and muscular development exercises?

Connect

• What are other conditions do you need physical and muscular work?

• What are other conditions do you need suppleness and balance?

Apply

• How will you use suppleness and balance in your daily life?

• How will you perform physical and muscular activity in your daily life?

Lesson 2: Gymnastic exercises

a. Prerequisites

Learners of senior three will learn better gymnastic exercises if they can carry out

different gymnastic exercises on ground and with apparatus, demonstrate the best

way of making gymnastic movements, identify gymnastic exercises and describe their

movement’s actions.

b. Teaching resource

Playground, whistle, tree, balls, circle, clubs, ribbon, mats, parallel and horizontal bars,

gymnasium.

c. Introduction

Opening discussions

Ask questions related to gymnastic exercises and their importance to the body

Example of questions

What sport do you like to practice?

What is the importance of gymnastic exercises?

Why is it necessary to perform gymnastic exercises?

What are other reasons of using gymnastic exercises?

Warm-up activities

Let learners perform warm up exercises and stretch their body parts specifically refer

to stretching of lesson one

d. Lesson development

Gymnastic exercises comprise rolling forward and backwards techniques.

For each technique:

• Show learners how to execute the basic skills.

• Let learners to practice based on instructions, materials and provide necessary

support.

Technique 1: Rolling backward

1. Stand: stand up with legs and back straight, hands at your sides

2. Crouch: crouch down onto your knees

3. Begin to roll. Roll backward onto your back

4. Gather your legs. Put your hands just below your hips t hold your legs up into the

air.

5. Flop your legs down

6. Stand up

Increasing the number of repetitions one after another,

Technique 2: Rolling forward

1. Stand: stand up with legs and back straight, hands at your sides

2. Crouch: crouch down onto your knees

3. Begin to roll. Roll forward onto your back

4. Gather your legs. Put your hands just below your hips to hold your legs up into

the air.

5. Flop your legs down

6. Stand up

Increasing the number of repetitions one after another

Cool-down activities

Tell learners to march on the ground while arms are relaxing and moving in different

directions of the ground and clap twice according to teacher’s signals.

e. Assessment

Final discussion

Reflect

• What are challenges/ advantages to perform gymnastic exercises?

• How did you proceed to achieve rolling exercises?

Connect

• What are other conditions do you need to roll?

Apply

• What is the usefulness of rolling in your daily life?

• How will you use rolling in your daily life?

1.5. Additional information for teachers

Provide and select all needed materials to facilitate learners to improve their

competence’s level

Check the use of those materials and experiment before being presented to learners

Make a serious research to provide a quality and relevant physical exercise in the safe

environment

Let learners perform exercises systematically from simple to complex and use materials

where it is necessary according to the specific lesson needs.

Organize learners to perform adequate static /dynamic stretching exercises.

1.6. End unit assessment

Perform muscular and gymnastic exercises of balance, jumping, push up, dancing,

suppleness and rolling technically with flexibility and agility.

1.7. Additional activities

• Frequent physical conditioning exercises of balance, jumping, push up, dancing,

suppleness and rolling technically.

• Regular practices in groups to help each other’s performance.