Summary:
Endorsed by OCR for use with the OCR GCSE Physical Education specification, and written by an experienced teacher and chief examiner, OCR PE FOR GCSE provides your students with the skills and knowledge to give them confidence at GCSE PE.

Written in a clear and accessible style, OCR PE FOR GCSE covers both Key Concepts and Key Processes of Physical Education and Opportunities and Pathways for Involvement in Physical Activity, explaining complex terms simply and engaging students so that they can apply their understanding at this level.

Illustrated throughout in colour and providing students with plenty of preparation for assessment, OCR PE for GCSE includes:
--learning goals to keep students on track with the requirements of the specification
--practice exam-style questions, such as multiple-choice and short-answer questions, to increase students' confidence
--examiner's tips that demonstrate all-important exam technique
--examples that link students' knowledgeto their practical assessment work
--'what you need to know' sections at the end of each chapter to help students to check their own progress and use for revision
--key words highlighted throughout to aid the understanding of required vocabulary
--useful websites to broaden students' koowledge of important areas on the OCR GCSE specification.

With free access to Dynamic Learning Student Online provided with each student book, OCR PE for GCSE will inspire, motivate and give your students confidence at GCSE PE.

Also available for purchase is OCR PE for GCSE Dynamic Learning Network Edition, which provides teachers with a wealth of networkable and interactive resources including animations demonstrating anatomical and physiological structures and processes and exciting interactivities that challenge students and help them to consolidate their own learning.

• Provides complete confidence - written by a chief examiner, and with our Publisher Partner to provide a complete match to the new GCSE.
• Excellent preparation for the exam - linked throughout to assessment requirements with plenty of practice exam-style questions.
• Each student book provides a link to Student Online, a dedicated website that provides resources that aid students' revision, including multiple choice quizzes and interactive labelling activities.
• Glossary to aid understanding of complex physiological and anatomical functions of the body.
• Teacher's resource CD-ROM -- OCR PE for GCSE Dynamic Learning Network Edition CD-ROM --available for purchase, providing even more interactivity as well as powerful help for your planning with our lesson builder functionality.

Table of Contents:
SECTION 1: KEY CONCEPTS AND KEY PROCESSES IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Chapter 1 An introduction to the concepts and processes in physical education
Concepts
Competence
Performance
Creativity
Healthy, Active Lifestyles
Processes
Developing skills and techniques
Decision making
Physical and mental capacity
Evaluating and improving
Making informed choices about active, healthy lifestyles
Chapter 2 Developing skills and techniques
Goal
Methods of learning skills
Feedback
Motivation
Setting
Chapter 3 Decision-making in different roles
Different types of decision making in physical activities
Participating in different roles
Chapter 4.1 Physical and mental capacity: fitness
Components of fitness
Importance of warm-up and cool down
Chapter 4.2 Physical and mental capacity: the skeletal system
The skeletal system
Joints
Ranges of movement
Associated problems with joints
Chapter 4.3 Physical and mental capacity: the muscular system
Muscular system
Tendons
Effects of lactic acid
Mental preparation
Chapter 5 Evaluating and improving
Characteristics of skilled and unskilled movement
Performance and outcome goals
Assessing the body’s readiness for exercise
Chapter 6.1 Making informed choices about healthy, active lifestyles: well-being
Characteristics of a healthy balanced lifestyle
The healthy diet
Factors affecting performance and participation in physical activity
Measures/indicators of health and well-being
Methods of exercise and training
Chapter 6.2 Making informed choices about healthy, active lifestyles: exercise
Short term and long term effects of exercise
Exercise and training principles
Aerobic and anaerobic training
Effective exercise in a safe and positive environment
SECTION 2 OPPORTUNITIES, PATHWAYS AND PARTICIPATION IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Chapter 7 Levels of participation in sport and physical activity
Trends of participation
Media influences
Sponsorship and funding
Chapter 8 Reasons for participation and non-participation in physical activities and following an active, healthy lifestyle
Reasons for participation
Reasons for non-participation
Local and national provision
Olympic organisations
Chapter 9 Specific social, cultural and locational reasons affecting participation
Positive and negative effects on participation
Current government initiatives to promote active, healthy lifestyles
Chapter 10 School influences on participation
The role of the school curriculum in promoting an active healthy lifestyle
Processes in the curriculum affecting participation
The influences of schools on participation
Chapter 11 Identification and description of pathways for involvement in physical activity
Bibliography
Index

About the Author(s):
John Honeybourne is a chief examiner and has taught both GCSE and A-level PE for many years. He is currently an educational consultant and works as both an Ofsted Inspector for sport and an Advanced Skills Teacher Assessor. John also runs revision courses and INSET and is an experienced PE author.