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Lesson plan 2 – Goal-makers, Record-breakers (PE)This lesson plan aims to give your class the chance to devise, organise, promote and adjudicate their own sporting record attempts in school by being inspired by the achievements of some of the most talented sportsmen and sportswomen in the world. Pupils will need to use their planning and organisational skills, and think about how to advertise a sporting challenge in school. They will also need to devise rules and criteria to judge their records.

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Curriculum links:• 2a, b, c • 10a

Learning Objectives:• To understand how to plan a PE/sporting

challenge for fellow students.

• To understand what rules are needed for judging a PE task.

Resources: all available to download at www.guinnessworldrecords.com/discover

• Presentation 2 – Goal-makers, Record-breakers.• Guinness World Records 2012 book spreads – Sports.• Worksheet B – Record Planning Sheet.• At Home – Sportsperson Research sheet.

Timings Introduction5 mins • Share with the class Presentation 2 – Goal-makers, Record-breakers and use

throughout the lesson.

• Share with the class the page spreads Sports – Top Marksmen/World’s Fastest and discuss a few of the records, including the most goals in a football career, most aces served in a tennis match and the fastest runners both male and female.

• Discuss the different records that have been set and the different sports in which people take part.

• In small groups, ask the pupils to talk about any sporting hobbies they do in or out of school.

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Timings Activity20 mins • Share with the class the page spreads Sports – Sporting Madness and discuss the

range of fun sporting events that take place.

• Explain to the class that they will be devising their own sporting challenge to create a school record. Explain that although this will not be a real Guinness World Records record-breaking attempt they still need to think about the 4 things which Guinness World Records consider when looking at records. Is the record: Measurable, Breakable, Verifiable (can it be proved and verified), Standardisable (can the record attempt be judged in a standard format), discuss these words with the group to help them understand their meaning.

• Split the class into small groups and provide them with Worksheet B – Record Planning Sheet to work through and complete. Remind the groups that they need to think of a suitable PE/sporting challenge that people in their school could take part in and which could create a record in their school. Suggestions could be: the longest basketball bounce, the fastest football dribble, the longest ping-pong ball bounce, the most skips in a minute, etc.

• Ask the groups to work together to complete their record-planning sheets, thinking about the event they would like to organise, how they would promote/advertise it, how they would make sure the event is run safely and how they would judge the event accurately and fairly to decide on a winner.

• Once groups have completed their planning, they can move on to designing and creating a poster to advertise their event and encourage people to take part.

Plenary15 mins • Bring the class back together and ask each group to present their idea for a record-

making event in the school. Ask them to describe the event they have devised and share with the class the poster they have created.

• Ask the class to vote to decide which event they think would be the best one to run in the school and give their reasons why.

Extension• Allow the class to work together or in small groups to run and stage their record-making event

with the rest of the school by promoting their event and recruiting people to take part.

• Encourage the class to visit www.guinnessworldrecords.com/discover to discover more sporting records.

At Home• Share with the class the At Home - Sportsperson Research sheet and encourage pupils to

research a record-breaking sportsman or sportswoman to discover how they keep themselves in the best condition and what they need to do to train and prepare to complete their events. Some examples of people they could research include Paula Radcliffe, Usain Bolt, Roger Federa and Rebecca Adlington.

• Pupils could be encouraged to bring their research into school and create a presentation or written interview to share with the rest of the class.