ATHLETICS


PHYSICAL EDUCATION CLASS

COORDINATED BY MRS BLESSING TITILOYE

Week: Three
Class: SS3
Subject: Physical Education
Lesson Title: Athletics
Period: I-II
Duration: 80 Minutes

Learning Objectives: Students should be able to

Define athletics,   State the scope of athletics and  State the benefits of athletics.

           Athletics

Athletics are competitive sports which started during the time of the early men when they were forced to run, jump, climb trees and mountains, throw sticks and stones, swim, dance, and wrestle in other to obtain their food or to protect their lives which were constantly in danger from enemy forces.

The first organized athletics meeting was held in 776 BC. In Greece, it was known as the Olympic games held in honour of Zeus the king of the Greek gods. It came up every four years until 394 A.D. when it was banned by Emperor Theodosius who regarded it as a pagan festival but it was revived in 1896 by Monsieur Baron Pierre de Coubertin, a French lover of sports who was known as the father of the modern Olympics.

Scope of Athletics

1.     Track events

2.     Field events

Benefits of Athletics

1.     To acquire skills

2.     For fun and enjoyment

3.     For entertainment

4.     For the development of physical fitness

5.     For professionalism

6.     For means of livelihood (i.e. to earn money)


Comments

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FIRST AID

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