The Units of Work
There are two units of work for each of the five learning areas.
The learning areas are:
Business Studies
English
Health and Physical Education
Mathematics
Media Studies
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Business Studies
Marketing the AFL – What a Game!
This unit focuses on the marketing process and how it relates to the Australian Football League. A range of related topics will be covered including the marketing strategies used by the AFL, product development, target markets and the importance of pricing strategies.
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Effective Human Resource Management – An Essential Function in the AFL
This unit will focus on human resource management and its application to the Australian Football League. Topics include performance appraisal, the recruitment and selection process, collective bargaining agreements, management structures, strategic planning and human resource issues such as the Anti-Doping Code.
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English
Living Football
The unit is based on several written texts and a film excerpt that have a common link to the experiences arising from supporting, playing or reporting on Australian Football. The texts include a short story, an autobiography, an excerpt from a novel and a poem. Students read or view the set of texts and use worksheets to respond to one of them, and to prepare a group oral performance. Students may also write a personal response using one of the texts as a model or focus.
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Reporting Australian Football
This unit is based on several print and visual media texts that focus on Australian Football. The texts include a match report, a video commentary, a replay, and an opinion letter. First, a sample text is read and discussed as a whole class activity. The students then apply their learning to a set of four different media texts. Students respond to the ways these media texts reflect opinions and ideas about the game, and study the different ways language is used to express a point of view. (Students may collect their own texts or a set could be provided.) Students then use their analysis of the media texts to prepare their own piece of writing in response to the ideas or opinions expressed.
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Health and Physical Education
Fit For Football
Students consider the link between the fitness components and energy systems used by Australian Football League players. The tests used to measure the fitness of Australian Football League players are determined and undertaken. Students present and interpret fitness test scores, comparing their own and others to that of prospective Australian Football League players.
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Skill Acquisition
Students undertake a series of activities designed to alert them to the qualities of successful coaches. These qualities are then linked to aspects of the information processing system through classroom experiments. Students work in groups to draw conclusions from experimental data and apply this knowledge to Australian Football.
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Mathematics
The Stats Tell The Story
In a series of activities students develop estimations of the playing area and stadium volume of the MCG using varying degrees of sophistication and complexity. Data regarding the characteristics of a sample of AFL players is used to construct a profile of the 'average' player. A season's data for selected teams is used to investigate relationships between the number and types of possessions and disposals and the number of games won for the year. A dominance network for the outcome of home and away matches between the finalists is used as a predictor of the outcomes of the finals matches.
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Kick it Long
In these activities students investigate goal kicking from geometry and probability perspectives by modelling the path of a kicked or handballed football. They investigate the goal angle and apparent goal width when kicking for goal from the 50 metre arc at different angles and use real and theoretical probabilities for goal kicking success rates. The binomial distribution is used. The path of a handball or short kick is modelled using given and collected data. A parabolic model is used. Students use formulas derived from the kinematic equations for constant acceleration to determine the range, time in flight and maximum height of a kick. Students calculate the theoretical angle for maximum distance and height.
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Media Studies
Heroes and Legends – Imagery of the AFL
This unit will introduce the language of representation and give students the knowledge to read representations, including the identification of patterns of representation in still and moving images of Australian Football club games. Students will be encouraged to discuss how images construct meaning and how images of the AFL games are constructed for different audiences such as fans, children and women.
Activities have a combination of individual and group tasks. Each activity can be undertaken in a single class or expanded to form the basis of an extended unit of study. The content of the unit is structured to provide teachers with a broad theoretical framework within which each area of focus might be explored.
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You be the Director
This unit has three parts which may be undertaken separately or in conjunction with each other. In part one students study the codes and conventions of football replay programming noting: the types and duration of shots; editing rhythm and pace; the use of additional information such as statistics and player profiles; cutaways to other footage; the use of sound including the language of commentators, music and special effects; and the use and impact of titles and credit sequences.
In part two, students create their own football replay and/or commentary programs using footage provided by the AFL - email curriculuminfo@afl.com.au, and/or footage obtained from local resources such as interschool competition or local amateur league games.
In part three, students compare their own products with those that have been professionally produced in order to analyse the impact of available technologies on the final productions.
Each of the tasks can be undertaken at the most basic level in one or two hour classes. Alternatively, each could form the basis of an entire unit of work in which case, undertaken thoroughly, they could together comprise a project lasting one 10-week term.
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