Digital Portfolio: P.E.This is where all of my produced online content for my 8th Period P.E. class will go.
Right now we are doing a triple-focus unit on badminton and the exercise room that also has a few fitness days fit into it. I like badminton the best out of these three things. I think fitness days are the hardest because they leave us sore. |
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Badminton
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We are currently doing a unit on the sport badminton in my P.E. class. Badminton is similar to tennis and volleyball in that it uses a net and some sort of projectile to score points. Like tennis, it uses a raquet and only single strokes may be used to cast the projectile.
We started our unit on badminton by playing practice singles (one on one) games with a partner. By playing friendly matches instead of competitive ones for prizes, we took the game easily and did not see it as too much of a contest. We also don't play badminton every day. Instead we rotate between badminton, using the exercise room, and fitness day. Mr. Brown likes fitness days to be on Thursdays so we usually have a different event sprinkled in somewhere. By not playing it on a daily basis, we learned not to rush into it and also to get other curricular materials in with our lessons.
I'm not a badminton fan myself, but when I was watching the Olympics this year, I noticed that badminton was actually an Olympic sport as were the similar games tennis and volleyball. I also noticed that these three sports were all interrelated. They all spawned from each other and use similar equipment and rules. A lot of the sports we do in P.E. tie in, in some way, to history because certain civilizations played and spread certain sports before others. Badminton's history goes back far enough as Ancient Greece!
The only tools we use to play badminton are a raquet and a projectile called a birdie. I did, however, learn to be more dexterous with sports equipment in this unit.
We started our unit on badminton by playing practice singles (one on one) games with a partner. By playing friendly matches instead of competitive ones for prizes, we took the game easily and did not see it as too much of a contest. We also don't play badminton every day. Instead we rotate between badminton, using the exercise room, and fitness day. Mr. Brown likes fitness days to be on Thursdays so we usually have a different event sprinkled in somewhere. By not playing it on a daily basis, we learned not to rush into it and also to get other curricular materials in with our lessons.
I'm not a badminton fan myself, but when I was watching the Olympics this year, I noticed that badminton was actually an Olympic sport as were the similar games tennis and volleyball. I also noticed that these three sports were all interrelated. They all spawned from each other and use similar equipment and rules. A lot of the sports we do in P.E. tie in, in some way, to history because certain civilizations played and spread certain sports before others. Badminton's history goes back far enough as Ancient Greece!
The only tools we use to play badminton are a raquet and a projectile called a birdie. I did, however, learn to be more dexterous with sports equipment in this unit.
Jump Rope
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Just a few weeks ago, my P.E. class finished a long unit on jumping rope. In this unit, we learned basic footwork for skipping rope and applied our knowledge to learn tricks. At the end of the unit, which lasted about three weeks, we found a partner, composed a routine, and performed it for Mr. Brown.