Sport, Lifestyle and Recreation

Sydney Distance Education High School HSC Course Overview

This course caters makes a positive contribution to the total wellbeing of students. They develop knowledge and understanding of the value of activity, increased levels of movement skill, competence in a wide variety of sport and recreation contexts and skills in planning to be active. These and other aspects of the course enable students to adopt and maintain an active lifestyle.

Outdoor Recreation

•  Navigation

•  Wilderness First Aid

•  Weather Interpretation

•  Assessment Task 1: Planning an Outdoor Hike/Camp

Coaching

•  Characteristics of an Effective Coach

•  Legal and safety Implications

•  Aspects of a Coaching Session

•  Psychology and Coaching

•  The Coaching Program

•  Evaluating a Coaching Program

Sports Administration

•  Organisational Structures and Procedures

•  Event Types – Carnival Competitions

•  Competition Types – Round Robin, Ladder, Knockout

•  Draw Construction – Handicapping, Seeding

•  Assessment Task 2: Presentation – Sports Administration

Resistance Training

•  Use of Resistance Training

•  Muscles of the Body

•  Training Methods

•  Programming

•  Safety - Facts and Fallacies

Fitness

•  Nature of Fitness

•  Fitness versus Physical Activity

•  Considerations for Individual Program Design

•  Improving Fitness

•  Training Thresholds

•  Types of Training

•  Assessment Task 3:Trial HSC Examination