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 on one occasion
- repeating an action successfully almost every time ✓
- being naturally good at something
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- Match the sporting activity to the appropriate skill.
- 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 most 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 classification to its description.
- simple skill⇔quickly learned as there are very few decisions to be made ✓
- complex skill⇔requires a lot of decision making and high levels of coordination ✓
- open skill⇔skills affected by the environment and predominantly perceptual ✓
- closed skill⇔skill performed in a predictable environment ✓
- Put these skills in order from most simple to most complex.
- 1⇔jogging
- 2⇔long jump
- 3⇔cricket bowling
- 4⇔lay up in basketball
- 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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- Open skills are performed in environments which are ...
- 'unpredictable' ✓
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Key learning points
- Skills can be classified along continua based on their charactersitics.
- The difficulty continua classifies skills between simple and complex based on how difficult they are to perform.
- The environmental continua classifies skills between open and closed based on the level of environmental influence.
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
Simple skill - a skill which is quickly learned as there are very few decisions to be made when performing the skill
Complex skill - a skill which requires a lot of focus and decision making to perform
Open skills - skills affected by the environment and predominantly perceptual as they must be adapted to suit the environment. These are usually externally paced e.g. a pass within a game situation in football
Closed skills - skills that are performed in a predictable environment e.g. a player taking a line out in rugby