Teacher prompt: “How can your competence and confidence in one kind of activity give

you the confidence and ability to participate successfully in other activities?” Healthy Active Living Education Students: “Skills that are required in one activity are often required in others. When we did yoga, I learned how to develop core strength and balance. That gives me an advan- tage and a greater sense of confidence when I participate in other physical activities that require core strength and balance, such as a dance or fitness routine, skating, delivering the ball in goal ball, bowling the ball in cricket, or hiking.” “I learned how to pace myself in long-distance swimming, but it’s also a useful tactic that can be used in other distance activities like speed-walking, running, wheeling, or cycling.”

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Teacher prompt: “How does understanding the offensive and defensive strategies of a particular activity help you to be more successful in a similar activity?” Student: “In soccer we often try to create open space by spreading the offence. This causes the defence to open up and gives an attacker a better opportunity to get into scoring pos- ition or pass to a teammate who can get into scoring position. I’ve just started playing water polo, but I find I’m catching on to the game very quickly because this and a lot of other strategies that we use in soccer are used in water polo as well. This is also true in many other sports. Players in European handball and tchoukball, for example, use a number of similar strategies.”

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