Team Sports

In this elective course students will understand, participate in, and teach the advanced principles of training and competition in multiple-player activities.

These multiple-player activities may include but are not limited to the following:

• • Ultimate Frisbee

  • Soccer

  • Football

  • Basketball

  • Over the Line

  • Flag football

  • Team-building challenges

Movement Focus

• • Identify and apply characteristics and critical elements of multiple- player activities.

  • Apply previously learned movement concepts for successful participation.

  • Identify and apply biomechanical principles.

  • List, describe and demonstrate use of safety equipment.

  • Demonstrate independent learning.

Fitness Focus

Participate in multiple-player activities that improve health-related fitness; analyze the effects of these activities on personal fitness; improve or maintain physical fitness levels to meet the principles of exercise; explain the relationship between participation in multiple-player activities and health.

Social Focus

• • Self-responsibility: Independently engage in multiple-player activities; compare and contrast effective leadership skills used in multiple-player activities and those in other physical activities used in course-related physical activities; develop personal goals for improvement; identify and analyze activities that enhance personal enjoyment; evaluate the risks and safety factors in multiple-player activities throughout a lifetime.

  • Social interaction: Modify an activity for a child, an elderly person or an individual with disabilities; analyze the role of social interaction in the successful participation in and enjoyment of multiple-player activities.

  • Group dynamics: Accept and perform planned and spontaneous leadership assignments and roles; analyze the role that cooperation and leadership play; engage in multiple-player activities both in school and outside school.