| CODE | PHE1146 | ||||||||
| TITLE | Outdoor Activities, Team Building and Innovative Games | ||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 01 - Year 1 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Institute for Physical Education and Sport | ||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | The study-unit will run through a number of lectures together with a residential camp, where the students will participate in specific outdoor activities including orienteering and trekking. Students will also learn about the use of team building activities to develop leadership, communication and social skills in their participants, together with other ways of motivating them to be physically active and to develop fundamental skills through the use of innovative games such as ultimate, intercrosse and tchoukball. Study-Unit Aims: The study-unit aims at equipping the participants with the skills needed to plan and deliver a programme of team building activities, traditional and innovative games, and outdoor adventure activities. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - fully comprehend the values of outdoor adventure activities; - identify risks related to outdoor activities; - establish the objectives of team building activities; - describe the rules of various innovative games; - identify appropriate pedagogies to teach innovative games; - identify officiating methods related to them; - list the main traditional games played in Malta up to a few decades ago. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - design and conduct outdoor activities; - organise and deliver team building activities; - build team strength and unity through games; - teach various innovative games; - teach fundamental skills through innovative games; - teach traditional Maltese games; - reflect upon personal experiences before, during and after the activity. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Andersen, L., Midura D.W. & Glover, D.R. (2019). Team Building through physical challenges (2nd ed). Human Kinetics. - Baccarini, M. & Booth, T. (2008). Essentials Ultimate: Teaching, Coaching, Playing. Human Kinetics. - Bunting, CJ. (2006) Interdisciplinary Teaching Through Outdoor Education. Human Kinetics. - Prouty, D. Panicucci, J. & Collinson, R. (2007) Adventure Education. Theory and Applications. Human Kinetics. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Daniel Attard Marc Attard Karl Cortis |
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The availability of optional units may be subject to timetabling constraints. Units not attracting a sufficient number of registrations may be withdrawn without notice. It should be noted that all the information in the description above applies to study-units available during the academic year 2025/6. It may be subject to change in subsequent years. |
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