GCSE Physical Education·Knowledge mats

GCSE Physical Education Knowledge Mats

Name: GCSE Physical Education Knowledge Mats
Brand: Empower Educators
SKU: mat-set-gcse-physical-education
Price: 3.99 GBP
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All 4 sheets — Anatomy and movement, Training and data, Sport psychology and Health and performance — for £3.99. One landscape page per topic, every claim sourced and every image licensed.

4 sheets · one A4 landscape PDF each · instant download

Bought once for the set, not per sheet. Photocopy them for your classes freely — keep the running foot on the page, which carries the image credits the licences require. One purchase covers the school that buys it. Downloading it ends the 14-day right to cancel; a file that is faulty or not as described is always refunded. Refunds

£3.99 for all 4

Anatomy and movement

The Engine and the Levers

Two sprinters have the same muscles, so why does one run faster? What the two body systems actually do: bones as levers, antagonistic pairs, gas exchange, and cardiac output as heart rate times stroke volume. Then aerobic against anaerobic as a supply problem. Levers are treated as a decision rather than a bone: the class is fixed by the order of fulcrum, load and effort, and a drawn figure sets the three classes side by side in their own panels. A second figure draws the same body three times so the sagittal, frontal and transverse planes, and the axes at right angles to them, can be seen rather than listed. A table of what exercise changes during it and over weeks of it, thirteen terms to define, a worked classification, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Training and data

If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Train It

Two athletes train the same hours a week. Why does only one improve? The two families of fitness with all eleven components named; the principles of training, with what a warm up and a cool down each do and why the DfE names both; and measurement done properly, because a fitness test is only worth running if it is valid, reliable and specific to the sport. A table gives a standard test for each component: Cooper run, sit-and-reach, Illinois agility, vertical jump, 30-metre sprint, ruler drop. A drawn figure sets the training zones as percentages of a stated maximum heart rate, so changing the maximum moves every boundary with it. Eleven terms to define, a worked heart-rate calculation, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Sport psychology

What’s In Your Head, What’s Around You

Two players have identical skill. Why does only one perform under pressure? Skill classification as two continuums at once, drawn as a labelled quadrant so a free throw and a rugby tackle sit where they belong; SMART targets; the four kinds of guidance and both kinds of feedback; and mental preparation. A second figure draws performance against arousal as one curve, because too little and too much both cost performance. A table defines arousal, anxiety and aggression, the DfE’s own three examples of psychological control. Then the socio-cultural half: engagement patterns by age, gender, ethnicity, socio-economic group and disability; commercialisation; sportsmanship, gamesmanship and doping. Thirteen terms, a worked goal rewrite, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

Health and performance

Three Sports, One Grade

You can name every training principle and still fail the practical. So why doesn’t knowing automatically mean doing? Physical, emotional and social well-being, each defined rather than listed, and what a sedentary lifestyle actually costs: obesity, coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and isolation. Then energy, diet and hydration — what carbohydrate, protein and fat each do, why even mild dehydration slows a performer, and a drawn figure that redraws one pair of bars at three ratios to show energy balance. Then the grade: one team activity, one individual, one either, and Ofqual’s 60/40 split with 30% for the performance and 10% for a task the regulator never names. A band on what genuinely varies by board, ten terms, a worked eligibility check, and the misconceptions that cost marks.

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