GCSE PE Long answer question revision / practice Edexcel 2016 Spec - Component 1 - Muscle fibers

Created to support students with long answer (9 mark) questions in assessments. Question based on muscle fibers for a 5000m runner!

I used a similar lesson to help them write developed statements on shorter responses which they found really useful (lesson resources available - writing developed statements). This lesson focuses on building those same writing skills to 9 mark questions to help them write extended answers with more success.

Lots of my students either wrote lots of simple statements, which restricts them to only 3 marks. Or they wrote the explanation / analysis without the statements / definitions first. This lesson worked really well to support them in writing more concise, and successful answers.

Format of the lesson is to give them the 9 mark question first, I then did some general revision / Q&A / discussion on different topics as a break between answers, and then got them to re-write their answers after discussing how to answer it with more success. Finishing off with a peer assessment task to compare answers.

I then asked them to look back through other 9 mark questions we have done, choose one and have a go using the same structure!