Healthy Active Living - MultiSport

"Invasion Territory" sports are team games in which the purpose is to invade the opponent’s territory while scoring points and keeping the opposing team's points to a minimum, and all within a defined time period. 

Research shows that strategies, tactics and patterns of play have the potential to transfer between these invasion sports. Playing a variety of invasion sports can help a player make connections and better understand basic concepts of offensive and defensive play. 

This game category can be broken down into 3 main sub categories: Invasion sports, Territory sports and Stick sports. 

Striking sports all have similar concepts. The main concept behind striking/fielding games is that when you are on offense you are striking an object and when you are on defense you are fielding an object. 

Players can only score on offense by hitting a specified object into open area, and then advancing to designated areas. 

Players on defense will attempt to stop the offense from scoring by catching the object while it is in the air before it hits the ground or by retrieving the object and bringing it to the specified area before the offensive player gets there 

"Net/Wall" sports consist of two opposing teams or individuals. They can be divided by a net, or may share the same playing field. The object of the game is to transfer an object into the opponent's court within the boundaries so that they are unable to return it. 

Net/Wall sports can be divided into two sub categories: with a racquet or without. Badminton, tennis, and table tennis are examples of net games which involve the use of a racquet. Volleyball and Takraw  are examples of sports that do not. 

The fitness unit during the first semester of Healthy Active Living for Grade 10 students at Bill Crothers Secondary School is designed to build upon foundational concepts in physical fitness training learned in the first two semesters of Grade 9.  

The fitness unit during the second semester of healthy active living for grade 9 students at Bill Crothers Secondary School encourages students to take further steps toward self-sufficiency through application. Having learned a variety of fitness training exercises and drills in the first semester through a series of functional movement exercises, form cuing, and resistance training workshops, students are equipped to apply their knowledge of specific exercises and movements to their sport-specific role(s) and/or areas of potential improvement with respect to physical fitness. During this unit, students will:

1.       Begin to understand the links between specific conditioning and resistance training exercises and sport-specific actions;

2.       Be introduced to key principles involved in designing a purposeful and meaningful exercise training session / workout;

3.       Apply knowledge of physical fitness training to their own personal long-term and short-term fitness goals.

In Target sports, a player either throws, slides, or strikes an object with the goal of having the object land closest too or in a designated target.

Target games can be in the form of either a team sport or an individual sport and can also be divided into being either unopposed (e.g. golf, archery, ten pin bowling) or opposed (e.g. lawn bowling, curling, shuffleboard).  

Foci include:

• Participate in Guided sport specific imagery focus

• Participate in decision making conditioning 

• Create individualized mental training program

• Participate in composure and self control session

Focus: Performing movement that matches a given emotion/ piece of music/ prop/ theme/ etc.