1.2 Components of Creative Arts and Sports

• Components of physical fitness: power and reaction time
• Elements of a play: theme, characters, plot, conflict, resolution, setting, language
• Pitch: grand stave; piano keyboard; scale of F major
• Rhythm: dotted minim, dotted crotchet and quaver and their rests; note extension: dots and ties

• describe the elements of a play
• perform activities demonstrating the components of fitness
• name pitches on the grand stave
• group music notes in 4/4 time incorporating note extension
• construct the scale of F major on a staff
• appreciate the basic elements of Creative Arts and Sports

“Why should athletes avoid performance enhancers to develop physical fitness?”

“Why is note extension important in music notation?”

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1. Physical fitness: power
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Define power as a component of fitness and perform exercises that develop it safely.
2. Physical fitness: reaction time
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Define reaction time, measure it with the ruler-drop test and practise drills to improve it.
3. Fitness to music; clean sport
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Practise power and reaction activities to music and explain why athletes should avoid performance enhancers.
4. Elements of a play
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Describe the elements of a play: theme, characters, plot, conflict, resolution, setting and language.
5. The grand stave
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Draw the grand stave and name the lines and spaces of the treble and bass staves, including middle C.
6. The piano keyboard and the grand stave
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Draw the piano keyboard and relate its keys to notes on the grand stave.
7. Note extension: dots and ties
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Explain dots and ties, write their signs on a staff and group notes in 4/4 using note extension.
8. The scale of F major
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Construct the scale of F major on treble and bass staves with and without key signature, and sing or play it with its tonic arpeggio.