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Factors affecting performance

Lesson Plan

1. Starter - Acclimatisation - Duration 5 mins

 

Episode

Learning Objectives

Resources
  • Students watch a video showing UK Armed Forces personnel summiting Everest before examining some images of people undertaking various sporting activities in extreme conditions.
  • Students take part in a class discussion and suggest key vocabulary to be listed on the board.
  • Awareness of the possible impact of environmental factors on performance.
  • Learn key vocabulary.
  • Slides
  • Video: Everest climb advertisement

Teacher Notes: 1. Starter - AcclimatisationTeacher Notes: 1. Starter - Acclimatisation

2. Multiple factors - Duration 15 mins

 

Episode

Learning Objectives

Resources
  • Students examine images of Service men and women taking part in various exercises in difficult conditions.
  • Students identify all of the environmental conditions which the people are facing and note down how environmental factors might affect their performance.
  • Students identify which conditions are likely to be encountered in normal circumstances and which are only likely to be encountered by Service Personnel undertaking military operations.
  • Understand key environmental factors affecting performance.
  • Awareness that performance can be affected by multiple factors simultaneously.
  • Consider those environmental factors that we may face in our everyday lives compared to the conditions which members of the Armed Forces may have to face.
  • Student Worksheet 1
  • Slides

Teacher Notes: 2. Multiple factorsTeacher Notes: 2. Multiple factors

3. Training for conditions - Duration 10 mins

 

Episode

Learning Objectives

Resources
  • Students watch a video showing Armed Forces personnel carrying out training in extreme conditions.
  • Students consider the difference between acclimatisation and gaining skills to operate in extreme conditions.
  • Students complete the table on Student Worksheet 2 by suggesting exercises which the people in the images could undertake in order to acclimatise to their conditions.
  • Video: Training for cold
  • Video: Training for heat
  • Student Worksheet 1

Teacher Notes: 3. Training for conditionsTeacher Notes: 3. Training for conditions

4. Preparing for an event - Duration 15 mins

 

Episode

Learning Objectives

Resources
  • Students examine three case studies which provide information on different sporting events.
  • Students are to plan a sportsman's or sportswoman's preparation for the event, detailing the elements of fitness which they should work on, their short and long term dietary requirements and any acclimatisation considerations which they should make.
  • Practical acclimatisation techniques.
  • Revise different elements of fitness.
  • Recap on dietary considerations.
  • Student Worksheet 2
  • Slides

Teacher Notes: 4. Preparing for an eventTeacher Notes: 4. Preparing for an event

5. Plenary - Personal training issues - Duration 10 mins

 

Episode

Learning Objectives

Resources
  • Students consider the sports in which members of the class take part and consider how they should prepare for the needs of the sport.
  • Students are introduced to the role of the Army Physical Training Corps (APTC) and consider the necessity for members of the Armed Forces to always be fit and ready.
  • Revise key learning's
  • Consider the practical application.
  • Consider the importance of fitness to the Armed Forces.
  • Video: Everest climb advertisement
  • Slides

Teacher Notes: 5. Plenary - Personal training issuesTeacher Notes: 5. Plenary - Personal training issues

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