Athletics in the PYP: Enduring concepts

What enduring concepts should the students walk away with when completing the Athletics unit. And what transdisciplinary skills should they have had a chance to work on?

In terms of transdisciplinary skills, we focused on:

Thinking Skills:
Application: Making use of previously acquired knowledge in practical or new ways

• Applying skills learned in the Athletics unit to new events and games played in class
  

Evaluation: Making judgments or decisions based on chosen criteria

• Evaluating where they are at in terms of level of skill
  by constantly referring back to their results sheet during the unit
• Making choices on what they want to improve and independently going around to different stations to work on drills and activities related to Athletics in an effort to improve upon the desired areas

Self-Management Skills:
Gross Motor Skills: Exhibiting skills in which groups of large muscles are used and the factor of strength is primary

• Athletics is dependent upon coordinating large muscle groups 

Time Management: Using time effectively

• Our students were able to determine their own practice plan and had to use their time effectively in regards to how they used the allotted time in PE
  

Research Skills:
Recording Data: Recording results

• As students set up their own training programs based on what we taught them early on in the unit, they had to record their own results in all running, throwing, and jumping events (a very valuable maths skill)
  

The enduring concepts that we wanted to focus on this unit were:

In the strand of Identity in the PSPE Scope and Sequence:
Perseverance

• Never giving up and always striving to improve upon your personal best results requires perserverance
  

Resilience

• Battle back from disappointment and staying positive is an enduring concept in Athletics and life in general
  

In the strand of Active Living:
Biomechanics

• Striving to understand the mechanics behind each event: Summation of Forces
  

Strength and Endurance

• Faster times in sprints, higher and longer jumps, and farther throws are a direct result of improved strength and endurance which reinforces the