2015 VCE Physical Education Course Outline
Unit 3 – Physical activity participation and physiological performance
Unit 4 – Enhancing performance
Text:Physical Education VCE Units 3 & 4 – Malpeli,Telford(Nelson, 5th Edition)
Workbook:Peak Performance - Physical Education VCE Units 3 & 4 (Nelson, 2nd edition)
Study guide:A+ Notes & A+ Exams
Term 1:28th January (teachers) to 27th March
Term 2: 13thApril to 26th June
Term 3: 13th July to 18thSeptember
Term 4: 5thOctober to 18thDecember
Week / Content (page reference) / Textref. / Coursework options & possible assessment tasks / Practical activity
Term 1
28 Jan – 30 Jan
Week 1 = STAFF only
Transition tasks set in 2013 / Assessment of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour
- Why measure physical activity? (P3)
 
- The National Physical Activity Guidelines (PP 4,5)
 
- Physical Activity measurement instruments – objective and subjective
 - (PP 5,6)
 
- The surveillance conceptual model (P7)
 
- A+ Notes Questions P5
 
2 Feb – 6Feb
Week 2 /
- Monitoring physical activity
 
- Dimensions of Physical Activity – type, intensity,frequency & duration(P8)
 - Individual and population physical activity monitoring methods : Subjective and Objective options and advantages/disadvantages of each. (PP 13 – 34)
 - Sedentary behavior measurement (PP35 - 37)
 
- Thinking Things Through P13
 - Active Australia Survey P 15
 
- Thinking Things Through P30
 
- A+ Notes Questions P9
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 1
 
Pedometer Challenge
Pedometers worn for one day/week at school. Record steps for a typical day/week
vs.
Pedometers worn by 3 different faculty teachers
9 Feb – 13 Feb
Week 3 / Changing Physical Activity Behaviour – the social-ecological model
- Changing physical activity behavior:
 
- Process of Change Questionnaire P 46-49
 - Keeping a physical activity diary P 50
 - Thinking Things Through P51
 - Multi media presentation P 56
 
- A+ Notes Questions P15
 
Practical Activity P 54
16 Feb – 20 Feb
Week 4 /
- Social-ecological models to explain physical activity
 
- Multiple levels of influence on physical activity (PP 60 – 65)
 
- Tailoring PA promotion strategies (P66)
 
- Written Report P 63
 
- Review Questions P70,71
 
- A+ Notes Questions P20
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 2
 
Application of Social-ecological model
23 Feb – 27 Feb
Week 5 / Strategies and initiatives for promoting physical activity
- Government and non-government organisations promoting physical activity (PP73 -75)
 
- Settings based approaches:
 
Community (P82)
Workplace (P85) / Chapter 3 /
- Work the Web P 73 & P74
 
- Thinking Things Through P 81
 
- Lab Report P 81
 
- Work the Web P85
 
- A+ Notes Questions P24
 
Data to be used later in course when discussing oxygen uptake & delivery
2 Mar – 6Mar
Week 6 /
- A range of physical activity promotion initiatives and strategies across all 3 settings
 
- Written Report P 87
 - Work the Web P93
 - Review Questions P 96
 - Peak Performance Chapter 3
 
9 Mar – 13 Mar
Week 7
Labour Day
10th / Acute responses to exercise
- Mechanisms responsible for the acute responses to exercise in the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular systems (PP98 - 113)
 
- Lab Report P 103
 - Thinking Things Through
 - P 110
 - Lab Report P 112
 - Peak Performance Chapter 4
 
16 Mar – 20 Mar
Week 8 / Food fuels and the 3 energy systems
- Food fuels (PP 116,117)
 - ATP = energy and fuels for physical activity (PP118-120)
 - The food fuel “mix” required for resynthesis of ATP (PP120 – 123)
 - Intro to the 3 systems working together = interplay (P124)
 - Characteristics of the 3 systems (PP125 – 133)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Lab Report P 131
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- A+ Notes Questions P41
 
Lab Report PP 132/133
23 Mar - 27 Mar
Week 9 /
- The rate of ATP production vs. the capacity of each energy system (PP 133 – 136)
 
- Reinforce concept of INTERPLAY (PP136 – 138)
 
- Training the energy systems (forward links PP 139 – 141)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 5
 
vs. heart rate analysis and energy system interplay
Term 1 Holidays
28 March – 12 April / Good Friday 3rd April
Easter Monday 6th April
Term 2
13 Apr – 17 Apr
Week 1 / Fatigue and recovery mechanisms
- What is fatigue? (P146)
 
- Levels of Fatigue (P147)
 
- The multi-factorial mechanisms (including fuel depletion, metabolic by-products and thermoregulation P147)
 
- Lactic acid myths (PP148-151)
 
- Oxygen uptake at rest, during exercise and recovery, including oxygen deficit, steady state, and excess post-exercise oxygen consumption
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- A+ Notes Questions P43
 
- A+ Notes Questions P48
 
- A+ Notes Questions P52
 
- A+ Notes Questions P58/59
 
20 Apr – 24 Apr
Week 2
Anzac Day
25th / Recovery Strategies (P161)
- Fuel restoration (P161 – 164)
 - Removal of metabolic by-products (PP164 – 165)
 - Neuromuscular events (P166)
 - Thermoregulation (PP 167,168)
 - passive and active recovery methods to assist in returning the body to pre-exercise levels.
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 6
 
Or ..
Short interval training (1:5) vs long Interval training (1:1)
Links to fatigue and recovery mechanisms
27 Apr – 1 May
Week 3 / Fitness components used in sports and activities
What is fitness? (P175)
Health related components
- Aerobic capacity (PP178,179)
 - Anaerobic capacity (P 179180)
 - Muscular Strength & types of contraction (PP 180-187)
 - Muscular Endurance (PP 187,188)
 - Flexibility( 188-190)
 - Body Composition (P 190,191)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Case Study P 177
 
4 May – 8 May
Week 4 / Skill related components
- Muscular Power (PP193)
 - Speed (PP194-196)
 - Agility (P196)
 - Co-ordination (P197)
 - Balance (P197,198)
 - Reaction Time (P198,199)
 
- Thinking Things Through P 193
 
- Thinking Things Through
 - P 199
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 7
 
Lab Report P 185
11 May - 15 May
Week 5 / Data collection/ activity analysis
Why games analysis? (P203,204)
Data Collection methods
- Observation (P204)
 - Statistical recording (P205)
 - Digital Recording (P 205209)
 
Data Examples (P 211 – 219) / Chapter 8 /
- Thinking Things Through
 
Review Questions P 220/221
- A+ Notes Questions P81\
 - A+ Notes Questions P86
 - Peak Performance Chapter 8
 
18 May – 22 May
Week 6 / Assessment of Fitness
- Aims (P223)
 - Protocols (P225 -229)
 - Types of Tests (P229,230)
 - Fitness test selection (P230, 231)
 - Examples of fitness tests & norms (P231 – 261)
 
- Written report P 224
 - Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Work the Web P 261
 - A+ Notes Questions P68
 - A+ Notes Questions P76
 - Peak Performance Chapter 9
 
Pre-testing / fitness profiling I
25 May – 29May
Week 7 / Fitness Training Methods & Principles
- Specificity (P 265 – 267)
 - Intensity (P267-269)
 - Duration (P 269 -270)
 - Overload strategies (P271, 272)
 - Frequency (P 272)
 
Methods
- Interval (P281 – 283)
 - Continuous & Fartlek (P283, 284)
 - Resistance (P 284-286)
 - Speed & Plyometrics (P287 -289)
 - Circuit( P289,290)
 - Core strength (P291)
 - Flexibility(P292,293)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
Program Design & Planning / Visit to local Gym = Fitness First
Written Report P 286
Pre-testing / fitness profiling II
1 Jun – 5 June
Week 8 /
- Application of Overload
 
- Detraining, Individuality, diminishing returns & variety (P274 - P277)
 
- Individual Training Program design
 
- Written report P 290
 
- Review questions P 295
 
- A+ Notes Questions P95
 
Peer led session - Circuit
8 Jun – 12 Jun
Week 9
Queen’s B/Day 8th /
- Individual Training Program reflection / fine tuning
 
- Comparison of 3-4 training programs (elite vs. other students)
 - Peak Performance Chapter10
 
Peer led session - Plyometrics
15June – 19 June
Week 10 / Chronic training adaptations
- cardiovascular system (P 297-301)
 
- respiratory system (P303 -305)
 - muscular system(P305 – 314)
 
11 /
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- A+ Notes Questions P104
 
Peer led session - Resistance
22 June – 26 June
Week 11 /
- Review of Chronic adaptations and links to training methods
 
- Review of training principles and training outcomes/adaptations
 
- Holiday Training expectations clearly communicated and agreements signed
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Peak Performance
 
Peer led session - Flexibility
Term 2 Holiday
27 June – 12 July / Training Week 5 & 6
Term 3
13 July – 17 July
Week 1 /
- Post Testing
 
- Evaluation of a Training Program
 
- Data Analysis P 314
 
20 July – 24 July
Week 2 / Performance enhancement from a dietary perspective
Nutritional strategies used to enhance performance and improve recovery, including:
- carbohydrate loading (P319 -322)
 - the glycemic index (P324 – 326)
 - carbohydrate gels (P331-322)
 - protein supplementation & caffeine supplementation
 
Dietary considerations in AFL & Swimming (P340 – 346) / Chapter 12 /
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- A+ Notes Questions P108
 
27 July – 31 July
Week 3 / Hydration techniques to enhance performance and recovery, including:
- sport drinks(P326)
 - water, hypertonic, hypotonic and isotonic drinks(P327)
 - avoiding dehydration (PP329,330)
 - the use of intravenous drips in rehydration( P333,334)
 
- Weblinks P331
 
- A+ Notes Questions P114
 
- A+ Notes Questions P117
 
- Peak Performance
 
Weight calculations
3 Aug – 7 Aug
Week 4 / Physiological strategies to enhance recovery such as:
- hydrotherapy (P351 – 356) including cryotherapy/ice (P 353,354)
 - heat (P355),
 - compression garments (P357)
 - hyperbaric chambers(P358),
 - sleep & massage ( PP359,360)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Written report P 358
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Peak Performance
 
10 Aug – 14 Aug
Week 5 / Performance enhancement from a psychological perspective such as:
- motivation & techniques (P364,365)
 - goal setting (P 366,367)
 - optimal arousal (P368-371 & PP374,375))
 - meditation ( P371)
 - sleep ( P371,372)
 - imagery (P376-380)
 - concentration (380 – 383)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Lab Report P 379/;383
 
17Aug – 21 Aug
Week 6 / Performance enhancement from a psychological perspective such as:
- meditation ( P371)
 - sleep ( P371,372)
 - imagery (P376-380)
 - concentration (380 - 383)
 
- A+ Notes Questions P125
 
- Peak Performance
 
24 Aug – 28 Aug
Week 7 / Perceived benefits and potential harms to the athlete of legal and illegal substances and methods that enhance performanceincluding:
- the anti-doping movement and illegal practices (PP 389- 392)
 - hormones (including steroids, erythropoietin and growth hormones) = ( PP393,394)
 - diuretics and masking agents (PP394,395)
 - beta blockers (P394)
 - stimulants (P395)
 - enhancement of oxygen transfer & blood doping (P396,397)
 - gene doping & manipulation (P398,399)
 - altitude training (401-403)
 
- Class Discussion P 399
 
- Weblinks P 400
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Revision questions P 405
 
- Peak Performance
 
31 Aug – 4 Sep
Week 8 / Anti doping codes and practices
- What is doping and it’s occurrence in sport (P406,407)
 - WADA roles and responsibilities (P408)
 - Code acceptance, implementation and compliance (P408)
 - ADAMS – how this works (P409)
 - WADA Anti-doping code (P410,411)
 - Doping Control (P411-413)
 - ASADA and an Australian perspective (P414 -418)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Weblinks P 412
 
- Thinking Things Through
 - P 413
 
- Research P418
 
- A+ Notes Questions P129
 
- A+ Notes Questions 134
 
7 Sep – 11 Sep
Week 9 / Performance Enhancement Overview & Synopsis – Physiological, Psychological, Dietary & Other /
- Peak Performance
 
Prac = Student Choice
14 Sep – 18 Sep
Week 10 / EXAM PREPARATION / REVISION COMMENCES /
- PRACTICE EXAM at SCHOOL
 
Term 3 Holidays
29 Sep - 4 Oct / Holiday Homework / Revision /
- PRACTICE EXAM at SCHOOL – strongly recommended
 
Term 4
5 Oct – 9 Oct-Week 1 / EXAM PREPARATION / REVISION / Peak Phys Ed Practice Paper II
12 Oct – 16 Oct-Week 2 / EXAM PREPARATION / REVISION
19 Oct – 23 Oct-Week 3 / No Timetabled Classes @ School
26 Oct - 30 Oct-Week 4 / No Timetabled Classes @ School / VCE EXAMS Commence November
2 Nov – 6 Nov-Week 5
Melb Cup 3rd / VCAA PE EXAM / To Be Confirmed
2015 VCE Physical Education Course Outline – Variation Commencing with Acute responses, fitness components then Unit 3 AOS 1
all Training Program completed in school time
Unit 3 – Physical activity participation and physiological performance
Unit 4 – Enhancing performance
Text:Physical Education VCE Units 3 & 4 – Malpeli,Telford(Nelson, 5th Edition)
Workbook:Peak Performance - Physical Education VCE Units 3 & 4 (Nelson, 2nd edition)
Study guide:A+ Notes & A+ Exams
Term 1:28th January (teachers) to 27th March
Term 2: 13thApril to 26th June
Term 3: 13th July to 18th September
Term 4: 5th October to 18th December
Week / Content (page reference) / Textref. / Coursework options & possible assessment tasks / Practical activity
Term 1
28 Jan – 30 Jan
Week 1 = STAFF only
Transition tasks set in 2013 / Acute responses to exercise
- Mechanisms responsible for the acute responses to exercise in the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular systems (PP98 - 113)
 
- Lab Report P 103
 - Thinking Things Through
 - P 110
 - Lab Report P 112
 - Peak Performance Chapter 4
 
2 Feb – 6 Feb
Week 2 / Fitness components used in sports and activities
What is fitness? (P175)
Health related components
- Aerobic capacity (PP178,179)
 - Anaerobic capacity (P 179180)
 - Muscular Strength & types of contraction (PP 180-187)
 - Muscular Endurance (PP 187,188)
 - Flexibility( 188-190)
 - Body Composition (P 190,191)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Case Study P 177
 
9 Feb – 13 Feb
Week 3 / Skill related components
- Muscular Power (PP193)
 - Speed (PP194-196)
 - Agility (P196)
 - Co-ordination (P197)
 - Balance (P197,198)
 - Reaction Time (P198,199)
 
- Thinking Things Through P 193
 
- Thinking Things Through
 - P 199
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 7
 
Lab Report P 185
16 Feb – 20 Feb
Week 4 / Assessment of Physical Activity and Sedentary Behaviour
- Why measure physical activity? (P3)
 
- The National Physical Activity Guidelines (PP 4,5)
 
- Physical Activity measurement instruments – objective and subjective
 - (PP 5,6)
 
- The surveillance conceptual model (P7)
 
- A+ Notes Questions P5
 
23 Feb – 27 Feb
Week 5 /
- Monitoring physical activity
 
- Dimensions of Physical Activity – type, intensity,frequency & duration(P8)
 - Individual and population physical activity monitoring methods : Subjective and Objective options and advantages/disadvantages of each. (PP 13 – 34)
 - Sedentary behavior measurement (PP35 - 37)
 
- Thinking Things Through P13
 - Active Australia Survey P 15
 
- Thinking Things Through P30
 
- A+ Notes Questions P9
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 1
 
Pedometer Challenge
Pedometers worn for one day/week at school. Record steps for a typical day/week
vs.
Pedometers worn by 3 different faculty teachers
2 Mar – 6 Mar
Week 6 / Changing Physical Activity Behaviour – the social-ecological model
- Changing physical activity behavior:
 
- Process of Change Questionnaire P 46-49
 - Keeping a physical activity diary P 50
 - Thinking Things Through P51
 - Multi media presentation P 56
 
Practical Activity P 54
9 Mar – 13 Mar
Week 7
Labour Day
10th /
- Social-ecological models to explain physical activity
 
- Multiple levels of influence on physical activity (PP 60 – 65)
 
- Tailoring PA promotion strategies (P66)
 
- Written Report P 63
 
- Review Questions P70,71
 
- A+ Notes Questions P 15 & 20
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 2
 
Application of Social-ecological model
16 Mar – 20 Mar
Week 8 / Strategies and initiatives for promoting physical activity
- Government and non-government organisations promoting physical activity (PP73 -75)
 
- Settings based approaches:
 
Community (P82)
Workplace (P85)
- A range of physical activity promotion initiatives and strategies across all 3 settings
 
- Work the Web P 73 & P74
 
- Thinking Things Through P 81
 - Lab Report P 81
 
- Work the Web P85
 
- A+ Notes Questions P24
 
- Written Report P 87
 - Work the Web P93
 - Review Questions P 96
 - Peak Performance Chapter 3
 
Data to be used later in course when discussing oxygen uptake & delivery
Personal Training / Boot Camp
23 Mar - 27 Mar
Week 9 / Food fuels and the 3 energy systems
- Food fuels (PP 116,117)
 - ATP = energy and fuels for physical activity (PP118-120)
 - The food fuel “mix” required for resynthesis of ATP (PP120 – 123)
 - Intro to the 3 systems working together = interplay (P124)
 - Characteristics of the 3 systems (PP125 – 133)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Lab Report P 131
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- A+ Notes Questions P41
 
Lab Report PP 132/133
Term 1 Holidays
28 March – 12 April /
- Holiday Homework = E/system application tasks & questions
 
Term 2
13 Apr – 17 Apr
Week 1 /
- The rate of ATP production vs. the capacity of each energy system (PP 133 – 136)
 
- Reinforce concept of INTERPLAY (PP136 – 138)
 
- Training the energy systems (forward links PP 139 – 141)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 5
 
vs. heart rate analysis and energy system interplay
20 Apr – 24 Apr
Week 2
Anzac Day
25th / Fatigue and recovery mechanisms
- What is fatigue? (P146)
 
- Levels of Fatigue (P147)
 
- The multi-factorial mechanisms (including fuel depletion, metabolic by-products and thermoregulation P147)
 
- Lactic acid myths (PP148-151)
 
- Oxygen uptake at rest, during exercise and recovery, including oxygen deficit, steady state, and excess post-exercise oxygen consumption
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- A+ Notes Questions P43
 
- A+ Notes Questions P48
 
- A+ Notes Questions P52
 
- A+ Notes Questions P58/59
 
27 Apr – 1 May
Week 3 / Recovery Strategies (P161)
- Fuel restoration (P161 – 164)
 - Removal of metabolic by-products (PP164 – 165)
 - Neuromuscular events (P166)
 - Thermoregulation (PP 167,168)
 - passive and active recovery methods to assist in returning the body to pre-exercise levels.
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Peak Performance Chapter 6
 
Or ..
Short interval training (1:5) vs long Interval training (1:1)
Links to fatigue and recovery mechanisms
4 May – 8 May
Week 4 / Data collection/ activity analysis
Why games analysis? (P203,204)
Data Collection methods
- Observation (P204)
 - Statistical recording (P205)
 - Digital Recording (P 205209)
 
Data Examples (P 211 – 219) / Chapter 8 /
- Thinking Things Through
 
Review Questions P 220/221
- A+ Notes Questions P81\
 - A+ Notes Questions P86
 - Peak Performance Chapter 8
 
11 May - 15 May
Week 5 / Assessment of Fitness
- Aims (P223)
 - Protocols (P225 -229)
 - Types of Tests (P229,230)
 - Fitness test selection (P230, 231)
 - Examples of fitness tests & norms (P231 – 261)
 
- Written report P 224
 - Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Work the Web P 261
 - A+ Notes Questions P68
 - A+ Notes Questions P76
 - Peak Performance Chapter 9
 
Pre-testing / fitness profiling I
18 May – 22 May
Week 6 / Fitness Training Methods & Principles
- Specificity (P 265 – 267)
 - Intensity (P267-269)
 - Duration (P 269 -270)
 - Overload strategies (P271, 272)
 - Frequency (P 272)
 
Methods
- Interval (P281 – 283)
 - Continuous & Fartlek (P283, 284)
 - Resistance (P 284-286)
 - Speed & Plyometrics (P287 -289)
 - Circuit( P289,290)
 - Core strength (P291)
 - Flexibility(P292,293)
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
Program Design & Planning / Visit to local Gym = Fitness First
Written Report P 286
Pre-testing / fitness profiling II
25 May – 29May
Week 7 /
- Application of Overload
 
- Detraining, Individuality, diminishing returns & variety (P274 - P277)
 
- Individual Training Program design
 
- Written report P 290
 
- Review questions P 295
 
- A+ Notes Questions P95
 
Peer led session - Circuit
1 Jun – 5 June
Week 8 /
- Individual Training Program reflection / fine tuning
 
- Comparison of 3-4 training programs (elite vs. other students)
 - Peak Performance Chapter10
 
Peer led session - Plyometrics
8 Jun – 12 Jun
Week 9
Queen’s B/Day 8th / Chronic training adaptations
- cardiovascular system (P 297-301)
 
- respiratory system (P303 -305)
 - muscular system(P305 – 314)
 
11 /
- Thinking Things Through
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
- A+ Notes Questions P104
 
Peer led session - Resistance
15 June – 19 June
Week 10 /
- Review of Chronic adaptations and links to training methods
 
- Review of training principles and training outcomes/adaptations
 
- Thinking Things Through
 
