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Very Important Flashcards

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PE

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  • Educational activity
  • Teach skills
  • Teach through motor movement
  • Teach about bodies & physical potential
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Sport

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  • Human activity
  • Uses administration & rules
  • Involves Competition, Challenge & Use of specific skills
  • Any sport has a definite background
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Recreation

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  • Voluntary activity
  • Beneficial
  • Happens during leisure or free time
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Play

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  • Spontaneous & Enjoyable activity
  • Participate for sake of playing
  • Must play to learn
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Meaning of “posture”

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Alignment of body parts

How well child can keep body upright & balanced

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Posture Problems x3

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Kyphosis

Round upper back marked increase in curve of back

Lordosis

Hollow back - exaggerated forward curve of lower back

Scoliosis

Lateral curvature, C-shaped, extending length of spinal column

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Importance of warming ups

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  • improve flexibility
  • prepare mind, heart, muscles and joints for exercises
  • Reduce the likelihood of injury.
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Importance of cooling down

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  • prevents pooling of blood in limbs -> can cause fainting & dizziness
  • helps heart, muscles and tissues to recover from exercise.
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Nutrients

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  • Essential things that make up food needed for body to function
  • Each nutrient category has different function
  • Protein, carbohydrate, fat, vitamins, minerals, water & fibre
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Protein

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  • growth & repair food
  • Main body-building nutrient
  • Repair of damaged tissue
  • High quality - animals - meat
  • Low quality - plants - nuts
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Carbohydrates

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  • Energy Food
  • Responsible for most energy
  • Broken down quickly & easily in digestive system to make glucose energy
  • Natural - balance of nutrients - potatoes, rice, fruit
  • Refined - low in nutrients & high in calories - white sugar, chocolate
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Fat

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-Slow energy food
-Concentrated energy - 2x more & weaker than carbohydrates
-Only need a small amount - too much -> obesity, heart attack & cancer
-From animal & vegetables foods
2 types:
-Saturated fats - solid at room temperature - margarine
-Polyunsaturated fats - fish

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Vitamins

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  • Needed for chemical processes to happen in body
  • Need a small amount
  • Low = reduce performance
  • None = sick
  • 2 types - fat-soluble & water-soluble
    • Fat soluble - stored in fat ready to be used
    • Water soluble - can’t be stored
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Minerals

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  • Basic elements found in soil & air
  • Need small amount
  • Include calcium, sodium, iron
  • Important for nerves & muscles to function & build body - bones, teeth, sin & muscles
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Ligaments

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  • Strong fibrous straps.

- Bones at each joint are linked by tough ligaments.

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Tendons

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  • connecting sheaths joined together at the end of each muscle from tendons.
  • They are made up of strong tissue.
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Five types of testing

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  • Growth - height, weight and fatness
  • Health-related - Physical fitness; -cardio, fat strength & flexibility
  • Movement skills (stability, locomotion & manipulation) - fine, gross motor skills
  • Knowledge - cognitive tests
  • Affective measures - feelings/attitudes towards physical education
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RICER

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Rest
Ice 
Compression
Elevation
Referral
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HARM

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Heat
Alcohol
Running
Massage

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Roles of Coach x5

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. teacher … passing on information, skills and ideas
. trainer … improving athlete’s fitness
. motivator … instilling a positive, resolute approach
. disciplinarian … firm but fair, determining a reward system and punishment
. friend … supporting and nurturing
. student … watching, asking questions, listening, learning

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Four instances in which a teacher can be found guilty of negligence

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  • If not acting in accordance with his or her duty
  • Breaching duty • In event of an injury
  • Proximate cause • Badly organised field trips
  • Failing to aid an injured learner
  • Permitting learners to play unsafe games
  • Failing to provide adequate instruction
  • Taking unreasonable risk
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Importance of knowledge of growth and development x5

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  • Knowledge of growth and development helps coaches choose the correct type and duration of exercises in relation to a child’s/athlete’s stage of development.
  • Working with weights can be dangerous if the child has not yet reached adolescence. This is because the child’s skeleton is still mostly cartilage which is softer than bone).
  • Heavy weights and repeated pounding should be avoided.
  • The length of the training session also has to be considered.
  • Realistic expectations encourage the child to participate in sport throughout his or her life, which is essential for good health.

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