Year 10 are learning the movement analysis section of AQA GCSE PE. The teacher sets the Seneca section on lever systems as a class assignment, and students spend twenty minutes on it: Seneca brings back the questions each student gets wrong and adjusts what comes next. Refreshing the assignment results, the teacher sees that most errors are on plantar flexion at the ankle as a second-class lever and on which lever class gives mechanical advantage. At the twenty-minute mark, students scoring over 80 per cent move to a table of past-paper questions asking them to identify and sketch the lever in a named sporting action, while the rest join the teacher, rise onto their toes to locate the fulcrum at the ball of the foot, the load of body weight and the effort from the calf, and compare it with flexion at the elbow and extension of the neck. That group then returns to Seneca's Wrong Answers mode for ten minutes, and everyone ends by answering one three-mark question on why a second-class lever has a mechanical advantage.
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