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ES PE: Grade 5

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Central Idea:
  • Groups work collaboratively using social, communication, and thinking skills to solve problems.
Lines of Inquiry:
  • Attitudes, roles, and responsibilities and the impact on outcomes
  • How to use the challenge cycle to achieve goals
  • How communication, thinking and social skills' affect the outcome of a challenge
Essential Questions:
  • How do we use the 'Challenge Cycle' when completing a challenge?
  • What roles and responsibilities help groups to solve challenges?
  • What skills can groups use to solve challenges?
Central Idea:
  • The body's capacity for movement and flow can be explored through turns, rolls, jumps, and balances.
Lines of Inquiry:
  • Sequences that flow and incorporate different types of movement
  • Maintaining safety in a range of environments
  • The variety of ways the human body can move
Essential Questions:
  • What is correct technique?
  • What are the different modes of performance?
  • How can you design, refining and performing a movement performance?
  • What are choreographic principles?
Central Idea:
  • People use rules, skills, and techniques to play games.
Lines of Inquiry:
  • Techniques and skills are necessary to play different games
  • The importance of rules when playing different games
  • Strategies that can be used in games
Essential Questions:
  • What skills and techniques do we need to play these games?
  • What offensive strategies can we use when playing games?
  • What defensive strategies can we use when playing games?
Central Idea:
  • Setting personal fitness goals and developing plans to achieve these goals can enhance performance.
Lines of Inquiry:
  • Different components of fitness
  • Training principles that can be used to improve fitness
  • Goal setting as a motivation tool
Essential Questions:
  • What are the different components of fitness?
  • How can the F.I.T.T. training principle help us improve different components of fitness?
  • How can goal setting help us to improve our performance?
Central Idea:
  • Athletes use an understanding of techniques and training methods to enhance their performance.
Lines of Inquiry:
  • How the development of correct technique improves performance
  • How rules influence technique
Essential Questions:
  • How does technique affect athletic performance?
Central Idea:
  • Individuals and teams use rules, skills, techniques, and strategies to play games.
Lines of Inquiry:
  • The skills and techniques required to play games/sports
  • The offensive and defensive strategies used in gameplay
Essential Questions:
  • What skills and techniques do we need to play these games?
  • What offensive strategies can we use when playing games?
  • What defensive strategies can we use when playing games?

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