1. ACTIVITIES CREATIVITY

2. BEING CREATIVE
In most activities you require creativity in order to devise solutions to different problems.
There are many ways to be creative. For example,
A round off, back flip within a gymnastics sequence
Fake and drive in basketball

3. BEING CREATIVE
Creativity can be used in most of the activities in your standard grade course.
For example, in gymnastics
if you are asked to create a
short floor sequence, you need
to be creative to ensure your
sequence has flair, fluency,
effective use of space and
variety (simple and complex
skills).

4. BEING CREATIVE
In hockey you require creativity in order to devise a short corner sequence. How are you going to use deception to throw the defense off the ball? In this case you have to make use of space and timing. Players will work together using a using a variety of passes to create space for their shot on target. They require creativity to devise an effective sequence that has a high chance of success.

5. BEING CREATIVE WEIGHT TIME FLOW SPACE Soft Fast Smooth High
All movements can be analysed in terms of weight, time, flow or space. Some examples are given below.
WEIGHT TIME FLOW SPACE
Soft Fast Smooth High
Strong Held Jerky Sideways
Light Quick Fluent Low
Firm Slow Stopping Wide
Delicate Continuous Narrow

6. BEING CREATIVE
In some activities such as dance, being creative plays an important part in expressing ideas and emotions. There can often be a stimulus found in creative activities. For example;
Music is one stimulus found in creative dance.
A painting
A word
A sound
A poem
A story
An emotion

7. Credit 2007 Question 7 Part B
Creating space can result in effective performance. Choose and activity where you created space.

8. Questions continued...
(i) Describe how you created space for yourself in this activity. (2 marks) (ii) Describe how you created space for a team mate/partner in this activity. (2 marks) (iii) As a defender you can restrict your opponents from creating and using space in team activities. Choose a team activity. Describe how you stopped your opponent from creating and using space. (2 marks)

9. Marking scheme Activity – Football
I quickly changed direction to move away from my opponent
(ii) I ran out to the wing and the defender went with me, leaving space for my team mate to run into
(iii) Activity – Netball
I moved quickly to stay close to my opponent so that she could not get away from me/into space

10. Creativity Homework
Give two different examples of how you were creative.
Choose an individual activity. Describe how you were creative. How did this help your performance? (3 marks)
(ii) Choose a team activity. Describe how you were creative. How did this help your performance? (3 marks)