News From the Nest- Spotlight on Learning: Mind, Body and Sport
Spotlight On Learning
Deeper Learning and Practical Application: Mind, Body & Sport
Presented by: Mike Perry
Subject: Sports Medicine 11
TEACHER DESCRIPTION and/or REFLECTION:
For the purposes of this summative assessment assignment, students were presented with a driving question: How do sports injuries and/or common health-related problems affect individuals on a physiological, psychological, and social level? From a biological perspective, students were asked to evaluate injuries from an anatomically and physiological perspective. To broaden their understanding of the concepts and complexities of sports injuries, students provided video evidence (YouTube), images/graphics and academic research (Google Scholar). From a psychological perspective, students were asked to draw on previous (personal) experiences and/or the experiences of others (interviews) as to how injuries effect the psychology of an individual during the initial phases of the injury (the event), rehabilitation (recovery) and return-to-play period. To obtain a holistic understanding of sports-related injuries students were asked to evaluate the effects injuries have on the social elements of an athlete’s life from an individual, team-based and family/friend perspective. This project acts as a summative assessment as it requires students to draw of several of the important topics discussed in Sports Medicine 11. The hope is that students take what they have learned and apply it specifically to dealing with future injuries and the recovery efforts needed to return to play.
STUDENT REFLECTIONS:
“In this activity I was given a choice as to what injury or ailment I wanted to research. Recently I had a cousin who broke their wrist while jumping on his trampoline. I wanted to know more about what happened from a human anatomy side of things. I also wanted to know what I would expect as it related to his recovery. I wanted to be able to support him physically but also wanted to know how I could support him mentally to ensure he didn’t get depressed or feel left out when it came to not being able to play the way he used to be able to play. Because we had studied bones and muscles in Sports Medicine 11 earlier in the year, I was quite familiar with how long it would take for him to recover and how important it would be for him to not use his arm to allow bone healing. As annoyed as he got with me about fussing over him, I think he appreciated me knowing about this issue and how I could best support him in his recovery. This assignment provided me with an excuse to help him out!”