Gymnastics
•Year 4
•8 Lessons
This unit develops Year 4 students' understanding of body tension as the foundation for controlled, confident gymnastics movements. Through systematic exploration of balances, rolls, jumps, and inverted movements, students discover how engaging their core and maintaining tension creates stability, control, and fluidity. The unit builds towards creative sequence work that combines individual skills with partner collaboration and apparatus use.
8 lessons in this unit
Lesson 1
Big Question:
How can body tension help us create stronger, more controlled balances with partners?
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Lesson 2
Big Question:
How can we use our whole body to control rotation and land safely in gymnastics?
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Lesson 3
Big Question:
How can we use different body shapes and tension to control our movement when rolling?
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Lesson 4
Big Question:
How can we use body tension and momentum to create smooth, controlled rolling movements?
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Lesson 5
Big Question:
How can body tension help us control and improve our inverted movements?
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Lesson 6
Big Question:
How can we use different pathways to make our gymnastics sequences more interesting and challenging?
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Lesson 7
Big Question:
How can we combine different gymnastics skills and apparatus to create flowing, creative sequences that showcase changes in level, direction, and shape?
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Lesson 8
Big Question:
How can we work together to create flowing gymnastic sequences that showcase different movements and apparatus skills?
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