This page lists what we actually have for AQA GCSE Physical Education 8582. It is built from the live activities, so it is accurate on the day you read it.
Theory only, and the forty per cent that is not
Worth saying before anything else. AQA 8582 is sixty per cent written papers and forty per cent non-exam assessment: performance in three activities, plus the written analysis and evaluation of performance.
Everything on this page is for the sixty per cent. Nothing on a screen improves a student's badminton, and the analysis coursework is about their own performance, which we have never seen.
Complete, sub-topic by sub-topic
All seven content areas are covered, and so are all twenty-four sub-topics underneath them: applied anatomy and physiology, movement analysis, physical training, use of data, sports psychology, socio-cultural influences, and health, fitness and wellbeing.
That completeness is worth stating because it is not the normal state of affairs here. Most subjects on this site are strongest where authoring started and thin out towards the end of the specification. This one is finished, which means you can pick by what a class needs rather than by what exists.
Two areas are worth a specific mention. Use of data is a content area in its own right in this specification, which catches departments out, and it has two activities: qualitative against quantitative data, and presenting and analysing it. Movement analysis covers planes and axes, joint movements with their muscle actions, and the three lever classes with mechanical advantage.
Uniform, which cuts both ways
Every activity in this set runs fifteen to seventeen minutes and has fourteen or fifteen steps. Nothing is shorter, nothing is longer. It is the most predictable set on this site.
For planning, that is a genuine convenience. One activity a week is a term and a half of theory revision, and the slot in your lesson is the same size every time.
For teaching, it is a limitation. There is no twenty-five minute activity to set when a class has genuinely not understood cardiac output, and no five-minute one for the end of a lesson that finished early. Every topic is treated as costing the same, and topics do not.
If you need a longer run on one theme, build a sprint from three or four of them and share one link, which is the nearest thing to a longer activity this set offers.
The nine-mark question, and what these ask instead
AQA's papers end with extended-response questions worth nine marks, needing a developed argument with applied examples and a judgement.
The written tasks in these activities ask for thirty to eighty words. That is a short answer. It rehearses knowing the point, not building the case, and a student who has only ever written sixty words will not produce a nine-mark answer under exam conditions.
Use these to check that the knowledge is there, then set the extended writing yourself, with AQA's own papers from our past paper archive supplying the question stems and the mark schemes.
The calculations
PE has more arithmetic in it than its reputation suggests: cardiac output from stroke volume and heart rate, maximum heart rate from age, aerobic and anaerobic training zones as percentages, one-rep max percentages, and the mechanical advantage of a lever.
All of that is present, and thirty-two of the thirty-four activities include a question where the student types a value rather than picking one, which closes the elimination route four options always leave open.
Twenty-six of those prompts name the operation in words. The student performs the calculation rather than deciding which calculation the situation needs, and the deciding is the examined part.
Using them
The three activities embedded further down are playable here without an account.
The lists below group by classroom use, worked out from what each activity contains. For how each is meant to be run, see ready-to-run revision activities. Everything else, by subject and board, is on the revision pages.
Edexcel GCSE PE is the other board's course, and our coverage of it is uneven in a way this one is not, which that page sets out area by area.
What this page does not do
Nothing for the practical forty per cent, including the analysis and evaluation coursework.
No extended writing practice at the length AQA examines.
No diagram labelling. Students are asked to identify bones, muscles, planes and axes, and apart from one hotspot activity these are covered in words rather than on an image.
It does not track anything, so there is no completion list to check.