§-Physical Education Q&A
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Physical Education Q&A by dot point
A short Q&A bank for every VIC Physical Education syllabus dot point. Each question and answer is drawn directly from our worked dot-point page, so you can scan key concepts before opening the long-form answer.
Unit 1: The Human Body in Motion
Unit 2: Physical Activity, Sport and Society
Unit 3: Movement Skills and Energy for Physical Activity
Acute physiological responses to exercise across the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular systems, including the mechanisms that drive each response and how the response scales with exercise intensity and duration
Apply biomechanical principles (Newton's laws, levers, projectile motion, fluid mechanics) to analyse human movement skills and identify how technique changes can improve performance
The three energy systems (ATP-PC, anaerobic glycolysis, aerobic) - characteristics of each, the interplay during physical activity, fuels used, by-products and fatigue mechanisms
Practice methods and schedules (massed, distributed, blocked, random, whole, part, variable) and the design of practice that matches the learner's stage of skill acquisition, the skill classification, and the goal of the practice session
Stages of skill acquisition (cognitive, associative, autonomous), feedback (intrinsic, extrinsic, knowledge of performance, knowledge of results, concurrent, delayed), and practice (massed, distributed, whole, part) - characteristics, application, and adaptation across the stages
Classification of movement skills along the open-closed, gross-fine, discrete-serial-continuous and fundamental-sport-specific continua, and how classification informs the way a coach designs feedback and practice for a named skill
Unit 4: Training to improve physical performance and health
Investigate chronic physiological adaptations to training across cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular and metabolic systems, and apply evaluation methods to judge program effectiveness against measurable performance outcomes
Integrate theory and practice through a chosen movement experience, using primary data to demonstrate the interrelationships between skill acquisition, biomechanics, energy production and training, and the impacts on performance
Recovery strategies (active recovery, passive recovery, hydration, nutrition, sleep, cold water immersion, compression, massage), the physiological basis for each, and how a coach selects recovery strategies appropriate to the energy systems used and the demands of the training session
Training methods (continuous, fartlek, interval, high-intensity interval training, resistance, plyometric, flexibility and circuit), the fitness component each method targets, the protocol for prescribing each, and the situations in which each method is appropriate
Principles of training: frequency, intensity, time, type (FITT), progressive overload, specificity, individuality, reversibility, variety, training thresholds, maintenance, periodisation