AQA A-level PE Book 2

Exam Board: AQA

Level: AS/A-level

Subject: PE

First Teaching: September 2016

First Exam: June 2018

Inspire, motivate and give confidence to your students with AQA PE for A Level Book 2. This reliable and accessible textbook will offer your students comprehensive support for both the academic and practical elements of the course.

This Student's Book has been selected for AQA's official approval process.

- Key questions to direct thinking and help students focus on the key points

- Diagrams to aid understanding

- Summaries to aid revision and help students access the main points

- Extension questions, stimulus material and suggestions for further reading to stretch, challenge and encourage independent thinking and a deeper understanding

- Definition of key terms - again to aid and consolidate understanding of technical vocabulary and concepts

- Activities to build conceptual understanding and sound knowledge and understanding, analysis, evaluation and application skills

Contents:

Section 1 Applied Anatomy and Physiology - Sue Young

1.1 Energy systems

Section 2 Skill acquisition - Carl Atherton

2.1 Information processing

Section 3: Exercise physiology - Sue Young

3.1 Injury prevention and the rehabilitation of injury

Section 4: Biomechanical movement - Sue Young

4.1 Linear motion

4.2 Angular motion

4.3 Projectile motion

4.4 Fluid mechanics

Section 5: Sport psychology - Carl Atherton

5.1 Psychological factors that can influence an individual in physical activities

Section 6 Sport and society and the role of technology in physical activity and sport - Symond Burrows

6.1 Concepts of physical activity and sport

6.2 Development of elite performers in sport

6.3 Ethics in sport

6.4 Violence in sport

6.5 Drugs in sport

6.6 Sport and the law

6.7 Impact of commercialisation on physical activity and sport and the relationship

6.8 The role of technology in physical activity and sport

Section 7 Assessment - Ross Howitt

7.1 Tackling the A-level exam

7.2 Tackling the non-examined assessment