Athletics Cover Work Sheet

Year 7 and 8 Athletics Cover Work Monday 29th June Learning Objectives To develop knowledge of events and safety rules in athletics Task 1 Watch the video ‘Track and field greatness’ and answer the questions below. There are three types of events in athletics. What are they? List as many examples as you can for each event.

_____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Task 2 What type of fitness would a marathon runner need to have? (ie what would they need to be good at?) _______________________________________________________________________ What type of fitness would a sprinter need to have? (ie what would they need to be good at?) _______________________________________________________________________ For a long jumper or high jumper, which part of their body would need to have powerful muscles? Why? _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ __ Task Three What is a relay? What piece of equipment is carried in the relay? _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ __ Why does the team have to work really well together? _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________ __ Task 4

Safety is very important in athletics. Design a poster on the back of this sheet to show all of the dangers in the different athletics events and what you can do to try to stop accidents happening.