Miss Hayward
PE and Health
Achievement Standard 2.1
"Whats on Offer and Why?"
Significance of Physical Activity in New Zealand
Achievement Standard Physical Education 91327: Examine the role and significance of physical activity in the lives of young people in New Zealand
Resource reference: Physical Education 2.1A
Resource title: Whats on offer and why?
Credits: 3
Your principal and the school director of sport want to assess how the physical activity opportunities (this includes sport) at your school are meeting student needs. They have asked you to be part of a group that is looking at the issue.
This assessment activity requires you to investigate the role and significance of physical activity for young people in New Zealand and more specifically at your school.
As a result of your investigation, you will then prepare an explanation of how and why physical activity has a role and significance in the lives of young people and present this to the school senior leadership team.
You will be assessed on the comprehensiveness of your explanation, including how fully you consider a range of viewpoints and factors, how fully you assess how the different factors of physical activity are interrelated in the lives of the young people throughout New Zealand and at your school and how well you support your explanation with evidence.
You will not be assessed on the style of the presentation itself but on the factors you consider in your explanation.
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1. The role of physical activity could include but is not limited to enabling:
– fun and enjoyment
– competition
– challenge
– social contact, for example meeting with friends to play/do/or watch
– health maintenance or improvement
– development of team work
– development of perseverance
– goal setting
– cohesiveness
– a sense of belonging
– appreciation of New Zealand’s outdoor environments.
2. The significance of physical activity could include but is not limited to social and cultural factors, for example:
– the importance of physical activity in a young person’s life
– the amount of time a young person spends in physical activity
– how young people view the relationship between physical activity and health
– how young people view the relationship between physical activity and entertainment
– what and who influence young people’s decisions about physical activity
– the significance of physical activity for young people across cultures, gender, etc.
3. In this situation, ‘young people’ means people between the ages of 16 and 20.
Good Article to help you: http://www.sparc.org.nz/Documents/Young%20People/Best_Practice_Review_%2813-18_Years%29_-_Volume_1.pdf
The SPARC report, Best Practice Review of Sport and Physical Activity Interventions in Young People aged 13–18 (2006), identified being able to participate in physical activity with friends as the number one goal for young people.
