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
