Written by senior examiners, Symond Burrows, Michaela Byrne and Sue Young, this AQA AS Physical Education Student Unit Guide is the essential study companion for Unit 1: Opportunities for, and the Effects of, Leading a Healthy and Active Lifestyle. This full-colour book includes all you need to know to prepare for your unit exam: clear guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check questions and a quick-reference index examiner's advice throughout, so you will know what to expect in the exam and will be able to demonstrate the skills required exam-style questions, with graded student responses, so you can see clearly what is required to get a better grade
Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: PE First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2017 Inspire, motivate and give confidence to your students with AQA PE for A Level Book 1. This reliable and accessible textbook will offer your students comprehensive support for both the academic and practical elements of the course. This Student's Book has been selected for AQA's official approval process. - Key questions to direct thinking and help students focus on the key points - Diagrams to aid understanding - Summaries to aid revision and help students access the main points - Extension questions, stimulus material and suggestions for further reading to stretch, challenge and encourage independent thinking and a deeper understanding - Definition of key terms - again to aid and consolidate understanding of technical vocabulary and concepts - Activities to build conceptual understanding and sound knowledge and understanding, analysis, evaluation and application skills Contents: Section 1 Applied Anatomy and Physiology 1.1 The cardiovascular system (Sue Young) 1.2 The respiratory system (Sue Young) 1.3 The neuromuscular system (Sue Young) 1.4 The musco-skeletal system and analysis of movement in physical activities (Sue Young) Section 2 Skill acquisition 2.1 Skill acquisition (Carl Atherton) 2.2 Principles and theories of learning and performance (Carl Atherton) Section 3 Sport and society 3.1 Emergence of globalization of sport in the 21st century (Symond Burrows) 3.2 The impact of sport on society and of society on sport (Symond Burrows) Section 4 Exercise physiology 4.1 Diet and nutrition and their effect on physical activity and performance (Sue Young) 4.2 Preparation and training methods in relation to maintaining physical activity and performance (Sue Young) Section 5 Biomechanical movement 5.1 Biomechancial principles and levers (Sue Young) Section 6 Sport psychology 6.1 Physiological influences on the individual (Carl Atherton) 6.2Further psychological effects on the individual (Carl Atherton) 6.3 Psychological influences on the team (Carl Atherton) Section 7 The role of technology in physical activity and sport 7.1 The role of technology in physical activity and sport (Symond Burrows) Section 8 Assessment 8.1 Tackling the AS exam (Ross Howitt) 8.2 Tackling the non-examined assessment (Ross Howitt)
Exam Board: AQA Level: AS/A-level Subject: PE First Teaching: September 2016 First Exam: June 2018 Inspire, motivate and give confidence to your students with AQA PE for A Level Book 2. This reliable and accessible textbook will offer your students comprehensive support for both the academic and practical elements of the course. This Student's Book has been selected for AQA's official approval process. - Key questions to direct thinking and help students focus on the key points - Diagrams to aid understanding - Summaries to aid revision and help students access the main points - Extension questions, stimulus material and suggestions for further reading to stretch, challenge and encourage independent thinking and a deeper understanding - Definition of key terms - again to aid and consolidate understanding of technical vocabulary and concepts - Activities to build conceptual understanding and sound knowledge and understanding, analysis, evaluation and application skills Contents: Section 1 Applied Anatomy and Physiology - Sue Young 1.1 Energy systems Section 2 Skill acquisition - Carl Atherton 2.1 Information processing Section 3: Exercise physiology - Sue Young 3.1 Injury prevention and the rehabilitation of injury Section 4: Biomechanical movement - Sue Young 4.1 Linear motion 4.2 Angular motion 4.3 Projectile motion 4.4 Fluid mechanics Section 5: Sport psychology - Carl Atherton 5.1 Psychological factors that can influence an individual in physical activities Section 6 Sport and society and the role of technology in physical activity and sport - Symond Burrows 6.1 Concepts of physical activity and sport 6.2 Development of elite performers in sport 6.3 Ethics in sport 6.4 Violence in sport 6.5 Drugs in sport 6.6 Sport and the law 6.7 Impact of commercialisation on physical activity and sport and the relationship 6.8 The role of technology in physical activity and sport Section 7 Assessment - Ross Howitt 7.1 Tackling the A-level exam 7.2 Tackling the non-examined assessment
Set students on track to achieve the best grade possible with My Revision Notes. Our clear and concise approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide that can be relied on to build both knowledge and confidence. My Revision Notes for Cambridge National Level 1/Level 2 in Sport Science (J828) will help students: - Consolidate knowledge with clear, concise and relevant content coverage, based on what examiners are looking for - Extend understanding with our regular 'Now Test Yourself', tasks and answers - Improve technique through our increased exam support, including exam-style practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid - Identify key connections between topics and subjects with our 'Making Links' focus and further ideas for follow-up and revision activities - Plan and manage a successful revision programme with our topic-by-topic planner, new skills checklist and exam breakdown features, user-friendly definitions and glossary
Reinforce your students' understanding of performance, coaching and evaluation and analysis of performance for improvement (EAP) and improve their exam technique for component 3: socio-cultural issues in physical activity and sport by utilising this OCR A Level PE Student Guide. Packed full of clear topic summaries, knowledge-check questions and sample exam-style questions and answers with commentaries, this guide will help you aim for and achieve the highest grades. - Identify key content for the exams with our concise coverage of topics - Find out what examiners are looking for with our Questions and Answers section - Test knowledge with rapid-fire knowledge check questions and answers - Avoid common pitfalls with clear definitions and exam tips throughout - Reinforce learning with bullet-list summaries at the end of each section
Set students on track to achieve the best grade possible with My Revision Notes. Our clear and concise approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide that can be relied on to build both knowledge and confidence. My Revision Notes for Cambridge National Level 1/Level 2 in Sport Studies (J829) will help students: - Consolidate knowledge with clear, concise and relevant content coverage, based on what examiners are looking for - Extend understanding with our regular 'Now Test Yourself', tasks and answers - Improve technique through our increased exam support, including exam-style practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid - Identify key connections between topics and subjects with our 'Making Links' focus and further ideas for follow-up and revision activities - Plan and manage a successful revision programme with our topic-by-topic planner, new skills checklist and exam breakdown features, user-friendly definitions and glossary
Reinforce your students' understanding throughout their course with this guide packed full of reliable content and sample questions and answers with commentary. Written by best-selling authors of our My Revision Notes and teachers with extensive examining experience, this guide can help your students to improve their exam technique and achieve their best. - Helps students identify what they need to know with a concise summary of the topics examined at A-level - Consolidates understanding through assessment tips and knowledge-check questions - Offers opportunities for students to improve their exam technique by consulting sample graded answers to exam-style questions - Develops independent learning and research skills - Provides the content students need to produce their own revision notes This guide covers the content and exam support you need for Paper 2: 1. Exercise physiology 2. Bio-mechanical movement 3. Sport psychology 4. Sport and society and the role of technology in physical activity and sport
Perfect for revision, these guides explain the unit requirements, summarise the content and include specimen questions with graded answers. This AQA A2 Physical Education Student Unit Guide New Edition is the essential study companion for Unit 3: Optimising Performance and Evaluating Contemporary Issues within Sport. This full-colour book includes all you need to know to prepare for your unit exam: - Clear guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check questions and a quick-reference index - Advice throughout, so you will know what to expect in the exam and will be able to demonstrate the skills required - Exam-style questions, with graded student responses, so you can see clearly what is required
Enhance your students' practical skills and develop their key content knowledge with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Target success in the Cambridge National in Sport Science with this revision guide that brings together exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical tips to help students to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes, every student can: - Enjoy an interactive approach to revision, with clear topic summaries that consolidate knowledge and related activities that put the content into context. - Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner. - Build, practise and enhance exam skills by progressing through revision tasks and Test Yourself activities. - Improve exam technique through exam-style questions and sample answers with commentary from an expert author and teacher. - Get exam-ready with answers to the activities available online.
Perfect for revision, these guides explain the unit requirements, summarise the content and include specimen questions with graded answers. This OCR A2 Physical Education Student Unit Guide is the essential study companion for Unit G453: Principles and Concepts across Different Areas of Physical Education. This full-colour book includes all you need to know to prepare for your unit exam: - Clear guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check questions and a quick-reference index - Advice throughout, so you will know what to expect in the exam and will be able to demonstrate the skills required - Exam-style questions, with graded student responses, so you can see clearly what is required
Perfect for revision, these guides explain the unit requirements, summarise the content and include specimen questions with graded answers. This AQA A2 Physical Education Student Unit Guide is the essential study companion for Unit 3: Optimising Performance and Evaluating Contemporary Issues within Sport. This full-colour book includes all you need to know to prepare for your unit exam: - Clear guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check questions and a quick-reference index - Advice throughout, so you will know what to expect in the exam and will be able to demonstrate the skills required - Exam-style questions, with graded student responses, so you can see clearly what is required
Student Unit Guides are perfect for revision. Each guide is written by an expert and explains the unit requirements, summarises the relevant unit content and includes a series of specimen questions and answers. There are three sections to each guide: Introduction - includes advice on how to use the guide, an explanation of the skills being tested by the assessment objectives, an outline of the unit or module and, depending on the unit, suggestions for how to revise effectively and prepare for the examination questions. Content Guidance - provides an expert's overview of the module's key terms and concepts and identifies opportunities to exhibit the skills required by the unit. It is designed to help students to structure their revision and make them aware of the concepts they need to understand the exam and how they might analyse and evaluate topics. Question and Answers - sample questions and with graded answers which have been carefully written to reflect the style of the unit. All responses are accompanied by commentaries which highlight their respective strengths and weaknesses.
Enhance your students' practical skills and develop their key content knowledge with this proven formula for effective, structured revision. Target success in the Cambridge National in Sport Studies with this revision guide that brings together exam-style questions, revision tasks and practical tips to help students to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes, every student can: - Enjoy an interactive approach to revision, with clear topic summaries that consolidate knowledge and related activities that put the content into context. - Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner. - Build, practise and enhance exam skills by progressing through revision tasks and Test Yourself activities. - Improve exam technique through exam-style questions and sample answers with commentary from an expert author and teacher. - Get exam-ready with answers to the activities available online
Inspire, motivate and give confidence to your students with AQA PE for A Level Book 1. This reliable and accessible textbook will offer your students comprehensive support for both the academic and practical elements of the course. This Student's Book has been selected for AQA's official approval process. - Key questions to direct thinking and help students focus on the key points - Diagrams to aid understanding - Summaries to aid revision and help students access the main points - Extension questions, stimulus material and suggestions for further reading to stretch, challenge and encourage independent thinking and a deeper understanding - Definition of key terms - again to aid and consolidate understanding of technical vocabulary and concepts - Activities to build conceptual understanding and sound knowledge and understanding, analysis, evaluation and application skills Contents: Section 1 Applied Anatomy and Physiology 1.1 The cardiovascular system (Sue Young) 1.2 The respiratory system (Sue Young) 1.3 The neuromuscular system (Sue Young) 1.4 The musco-skeletal system and analysis of movement in physical activities (Sue Young) Section 2 Skill acquisition 2.1 Skill acquisition (Carl Atherton) 2.2 Principles and theories of learning and performance (Carl Atherton) Section 3 Sport and society 3.1 Emergence of globalization of sport in the 21st century (Symond Burrows) 3.2 The impact of sport on society and of society on sport (Symond Burrows) Section 4 Exercise physiology 4.1 Diet and nutrition and their effect on physical activity and performance (Sue Young) 4.2 Preparation and training methods in relation to maintaining physical activity and performance (Sue Young) Section 5 Biomechanical movement 5.1 Biomechancial principles and levers (Sue Young) Section 6 Sport psychology 6.1 Physiological influences on the individual (Carl Atherton) 6.2Further psychological effects on the individual (Carl Atherton) 6.3 Psychological influences on the team (Carl Atherton) Section 7 The role of technology in physical activity and sport 7.1 The role of technology in physical activity and sport (Symond Burrows) Section 8 Assessment 8.1 Tackling the AS exam (Ross Howitt) 8.2 Tackling the non-examined assessment (Ross Howitt)
Reinforce your students' understanding throughout their course with this guide packed full of reliable content and sample questions and answers with commentary. Written by best-selling authors of our My Revision Notes and teachers with extensive examining experience, this guide can help your students to improve their exam technique and achieve their best. - Helps students identify what they need to know with a concise summary of the topics examined at A-level - Consolidates understanding through assessment tips and knowledge-check questions - Offers opportunities for students to improve their exam technique by consulting sample graded answers to exam-style questions - Develops independent learning and research skills - Provides the content students need to produce their own revision notes This guide covers the content and exam support you need for Paper 1: 1. Applied anatomy and physiology 2. Skill acquisition 3. Sport and society
Set your students on track to achieve the best grade possible with My Revision Notes. Our clear and concise approach to revision will help students learn, practise and apply their skills and understanding. Coverage of key content is combined with practical study tips and effective revision strategies to create a guide that can be relied on to build both knowledge and confidence. My Revision Notes for AQA A-level PE will help students: - Consolidate knowledge with clear, concise and relevant content coverage, based on what examiners are looking for - Extend understanding with our regular 'Now test yourself,' tasks and answers - Improve technique through our increased exam support, including exam-style practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid - Identify key connections between topics and subjects with our 'Making links' focus and further ideas for follow-up and revision activities - Plan and manage a successful revision programme with our topic-by-topic planner, new skills checklist and exam breakdown features, user-friendly definitions, glossary and online questions and answers
Exam Revision Notes are the essential foundation for a successful revision programme. The aim of AS/A-Level PE/Sports Studies is to accelerate the learning process by providing systematic and concise coverage of the subject core, allowing you time to develop the higher-level skills of analysis and evaluation. Written by an experienced examiner, the notes are accompanied by short commentaries which highlight key points, identify common pitfalls and offer guidance on underlying patterns. This effective combination of essential notes and invaluable expert advice creates the ideal revision resource.
Target success in PE with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes, every student can: Plan and manage a successful revision programme using the topic-by-topic planner Consolidate subject knowledge by working through clear and focused content coverage Test understanding and identify areas for improvement with regular 'Now Test Yourself' tasks and answers Improve exam technique through practice questions, expert tips and examples of typical mistakes to avoid Get exam ready with extra quick quizzes and answers to the practice questions available online
This textbook has been written specifically to meet the needs of AS students following the AQA specification. It is comprehensive, easily accessible and exam focused. The theoretical part of the course (Unit 1) is divided into three components and these are covered in detail. Each chapter has the following special features: - learning objectives - definitions of key terms - tips for exam success - activities relating theory to practice - 'Practice makes perfect' -- exam-style questions with answers to check progress - extension materialUnit 2 examines practical application. Guidance on the planning and structure of this aspect of the course is provided at the end of the book. The authors have been especially careful throughout to emphasise the link between theoretical concept and practical performance -- an essential feature of exam success in PE -- by including numerous sporting examples. An accompanying online resource offers advice on exam technique and presents a mock exam paper with graded answers.
Written by senior examiners, Symond Burrows, Michaela Byrne and Sue Young, this AQA A2 Physical Education Student Unit Guide is the essential study companion for Unit 3: Optimising Performance and Evaluating Contemporary Issues within Sport. This full-colour book includes all you need to know to prepare for your unit exam: clear guidance on the content of the unit, with topic summaries, knowledge check questions and a quick-reference index examiner's advice throughout, so you will know what to expect in the exam and will be able to demonstrate the skills required exam-style questions, with graded student responses, so you can see clearly what is required to get a better grade
This textbook has been written specifically to meet the needs of A2 students following the AQA specification. It is comprehensive, easily accessible and exam focused. The theoretical part of the course (Unit 3) is divided into three components and these are covered in detail. Each chapter has the following special features: - learning objectives- definitions of key terms- tips for exam success- activities relating theory to practice- 'Practice makes perfect' -- exam-style questions with answers to check progress- extension material Unit 4 examines practical application. Guidance on the planning and structure of this aspect of the course is provided at the end of the book. The authors have been especially careful throughout to emphasise the link between theoretical concept and practical performance -- an essential feature of exam success in PE -- by including numerous sporting examples. An accompanying online resource offers advice on exam technique and presents a mock exam paper with graded answers.
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