EXTRACT AND LESSON
Grade
- Grade
6 and 8
Subject
- Health
and physical education
Unit
- Unit 05 of grade 6 and 8 Text
Books
Lesson
- Let's
relax and enjoy through
recreational games
Learning outcomes - Understand
the importance of
sports
and knowledge of sports
The history of sport probably
extends as far back as the existence of people as purposive sportive and active
beings. Sport has been a useful way for people to increase their mastery of
nature and the environment. The history of sport can teach us a great deal
about social changes and about the nature of sport itself. Sport
seems to involve basic human skills being developed and exercised for their own
sake, in parallel with being exercised for their usefulness. It also shows how
society has changed its beliefs and therefore there are changes in the rules.
Of course, as we go further back in history the dwindling evidence makes the
theories of the origins and purposes of sport difficult to support.
Nonetheless, its importance in human history is undeniable.
