Simplified AS 3.1 Questions
Part One:
What kind of sports or activities have you been involved in the most? Why do you think you've been into those activities?
Who or what has encouraged or made it difficult for you to join in physical activities?
How has your family, friends, where you live, your community, and your school influenced your physical activity? How do culture, tradition, and money affect what activities you can do?
What sports or activities were available at your school? Who could join? Did you feel like you had to be good at them?
Were certain activities seen as better than others? If so, why, and did that affect what you chose to do?
How did coaches, teachers, family, and friends affect your participation?
Did being a boy or a girl matter in what you could do? Whose opinions mattered most, and why? How much say did you have?
Did trends or media about physical activity affect your choices? How do society's ideas about physical activity influence what you do?
What activities have you kept doing and why? How does being active make you feel better? Will this change when you finish school?
What do people expect young people to do for physical activity, and how has that affected your choices?
What does research say about physical activity for young people, and does that match your experiences?
Did you or others make assumptions when choosing activities? What were they about (like being a boy or girl, class, fitting in with certain groups)?
Think about how physical activity affects your well-being. Are there any assumptions you want to question or challenge?
Look at all the influences on your physical activity experiences, like society, politics, environment, money, culture, and history. How do they affect your well-being?
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Part Two:
Based on how important physical activity is for you, come up with a plan and ideas to make sure it keeps making you feel good throughout your life. Here's what you should think about:
Think about what you might be doing in the future, like going to college, working, or travelling abroad. Consider where you might live and how that could affect your ability to stay active.
Remember any assumptions you made when looking back at your past experiences with physical activity. Think about how knowing about these assumptions might change what you do in the future.
Think about the things that helped or stopped you from being active before, and figure out how you can deal with those things in the future.
Think about any new things you'd like to try when it comes to staying active.
Decide if there are any activities or habits you have now that you don't want to keep doing in the future.
Plan out what you'll need to do to make sure you keep being active throughout your life.
Discuss how you will make sure you look after your te whare tapa wha with this future plan in mind.