Starter quiz
- Which of these best defines a skill?
- knowledge and understanding
- natural talent
- learned actions or behaviours ✓
- measurements
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- Which of the following makes you a skilful performer?
- performing an action successfully
- repeating an action successfully ✓
- successfully doing a skill once
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- Match these skills to their sport.
- scrummaging⇔rugby ✓
- cover drive⇔cricket ✓
- gybing⇔sailing ✓
- underarm serve⇔volleyball ✓
- twizzle⇔figure skating ✓
- What does the word classify mean?
- to randomly assign something to a category without any reason
- to make something more complicated by adding unnecessary details
- to eliminate something from a group entirely
- to categorise something based on its characteristics ✓
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- Which order would most people learn the following skills in?
- 1⇔walking
- 2⇔running
- 3⇔kicking a ball and chasing after it
- 4⇔running with a ball close to their feet
- 5⇔dribbling a ball around other people with losing it
- The word environment means...
- the weather conditions in a specific area at a given time
- a set of laws and regulations governing human activities and behaviours
- everything that surrounds us and influences our lives ✓
- a collection of buildings and infrastructure that make up a city or town
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Exit quiz
- Which of these are not skills?
- passing in handball
- serving in badminton
- rugby ✓
- stopping in snowboarding
- gymnastics ✓
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- Put these skills in order from the most closed to open in terms of environmental factors.
- 1⇔a solo dance routine
- 2⇔swimming in a freestyle race
- 3⇔a table tennis serve
- 4⇔receiving a pass in netball
- Match the continua to its description.
- difficulty continua⇔classifying how basic or complex a skill is to perform ✓
- environmental continua⇔classifying how open or closed a skill is ✓
- organisational continua⇔classifying whether a skill is low or high organisation ✓
- Low organisation skills have separate subroutines. Put these subroutines in order for the tennis serve.
- 1⇔stance/start position
- 2⇔ball toss
- 3⇔backswing
- 4⇔ball strike
- 5⇔follow through
- A skill which is complex is likely to have which of these characteristics?
- lots of information to process ✓
- no decisions to make
- requires lots of concentration ✓
- is learned easily
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- A skill which cannot be broken down into subroutines is classified as ______ organisation.
- 'high' ✓
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Key learning points
- Skills can be classified along continua based on their charactersitics.
- The difficulty continua classifies skills based on how complex they are to perform.
- The environmental continua classifies skills based on the level of influence environmental factors have when performing.
- The organisational continua classifies skills based on the ability to break down the skill into parts or subroutines.
Common misconception
A very common mistake made when classifying skills is to name a sport without the skill. For example, trying to classify 'rugby' rather than one of the many different skills within rugby.
Ensure pupils understand that specific skills are required and that they can name multiple examples of skills from different sports.
Keywords
Skill - a learned action/behaviour
Difficulty continua - classifying how basic or complex a skill is to perform
Environmental continua - classifying how open or closed a skills is
Organisational continua - classifying whether a skill is low or high orgainsation.
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