LESSON PLAN

TOPIC: Grade 6 or 7 (Game form: Target Games)

CONCEPT FOCUS:

 Play games and activities to focus on targets

 Dodge ball games and coordinating drills
 Hitting moving targets
 Hitting targets from different distances

TECHNICAL/SKILL FOCUS:

 Strategies for accuracy

 Aiming at targets
 Body and feet positioning
 Practice loco-motor skills (walking, running, jumping)
 Practice manipulative skills by catching, collecting, carrying, sending and throwing.

TACTICAL FOCUS:

 Application of target principles in other games

Cross-curricular Competencies & CEL’s- Common Essential Learnings:

Cross-curricular Competencies:

 Developing Thinking:
o Able to explain principles about different aspects and techniques
 Developing Identity and Interdependence:
o Will be able to apply the rules to the play.
 Developing Social Responsibility:
o Interact positively with others
o Work together to create success

Common Essential Learnings:

 Communication:
o Use communication in partnered drills to be successful as well as having
teamwork in communication in team game.
 Critical and Creative Thinking:
o Will be able to decide that strategies they need to perform next to not get hit.
  Independent Learning:
o Keep yourself safe from getting hit
 Numeracy:
o Able to keep score
 Personal Social Values and Skills:
o Show sportsmanship

Intentions/Objectives:

Students will:

 Obtain skills through a number of developmentally appropriate movement activities.

 Learn about hitting targets
 Try throwing/aiming mechanics to hit targets
 Understand catching skills in dodge ball
 Be active
 Have fun

Materials/Equipment:

o Dodge balls/ Foam rhino-skin balls

o Hoola Hoops
o Bowling Pins

Set:

 The location for this lesson will take place in the gymnasium.
 Students are required to have gym clothes as well as a clean indoor pair of shoes.
 We are going to look at dodge ball as a “target game”.
 In different situations we will have stationary targets and stationary players, as well as
moving targets and moving players.

Development

 Students can start by doing a few stretches and getting warmed up. (3-5 minutes)
 The beginning game will be a warm up to get the students involved right away and will
also introduce the other games and skills we will be working on for the rest of the lesson.
 Game: CRACKER BALL (10 minutes)
o Crackerball is an individual dodge ball game.
 o The boundaries will be within the red lines on the gym floor.
o Everyone will start in the play area.
o A number of balls will be distributed (depending on the number of students).
o The goal is to avoid getting hit by a ball while trying to take out other opponents
by hitting them with the ball.
o If you get hit with a ball, or if someone catches the ball you have thrown, you are
out and must move to the side lines.
o The student’s who are on the sidelines after being out, can still throw the ball and
hit the players who are still in to get them out.
o Once you get a hold of a ball, you must throw it in the next 3 seconds.
o The last person standing is the winner.
o QUESTIONS:
 What did you find difficult in this game?
 Did you have any strategies for staying in the game?
 What might you do differently next time?

 Practice:
 Now we are going to do a few activities that might help us to improve on our aim and
target skills for the specific game we will end with.
 First we are going to do a passing partner drill. (7 minutes)
o With a partner, you will start by standing next to each other.
o The person on the right will start moving/running forward and the other person
will throw the ball to them to catch as they move.
o When you catch the ball you must be stopped to throw it to your partner while
they run ahead.
o Keep alternating in that pattern until you make it to the other side of the gym.
o Once everyone has made it to the other side we will do the same thing back.
o Everyone can get a partner and a dodge ball.
o We can form two lines at one end and begin.
 Next we are going to work on our aim at a target. (7 minutes)
o In your same partners, I want you to work on throwing your ball through the
hoola hoop (using it as your target) by the wall.
o You may start by throwing close to the hoola hoop and move away from it to
throw from farther distances (increasing the difficulty).
o Your partner can also enhance the difficulty by moving the hoop up and down and
side to side to also increase the difficulty.
o QUESTIONS:
o In reference to either of the drills, what are some techniques or way in which we
can work on our accuracy and be consistent?
 o How do you keep aim control while still trying to accumulate power throws?

 Game: DODGE BOWL(10 minutes)

 Last but not least, we are going to play a GAME called Dodge Bowl.
o The objective for the game is to knock over all the other teams bowling pins,
while protecting yourself and your own teams bowling pins.
o You will be divided into 2 teams and the gym will be divided in half with each
team on different sides.
o 5 bowling pins will be set up at the back of each team’s court. (spread out)
o To start, 8 balls will be placed in the centre of the court and each team lined up in
front of their bowling pins.
o When I tell you to start, you may run to get the balls and begin throwing them
o Your goal is to try and knock over the other team’s bowling pins (which cannot
be placed upright once knocked over, even if it’s an accident by our own team).
o While this is going on, students can also throw balls at their opponents (below the
chest).
o If you catch a ball someone threw at you-you are not out.
o If you are hit, you must sit down directly where you were hit. You can still
participate but are not able to move from that spot. When the final pin falls for
one team the game is over.
o To add extra emphasis to the game: if someone hits the backboard of the
basketball net at their opposite end of the court their whole team is allowed to
stand back up and be back in the game if they were sitting down because they
were hit.

 QUESTIONS:
o Is there anything from the beginning activities that you used or kept in mind to do
well in the last game?
o What were key strategies?
o Did you enjoy this game? Is there anything you would change that might make it
more interesting?

Closure: (5 minutes)
  Review class and what you went over and discussed

 Allow times for questions and reflection:

o What did you learn? Did you understand the rules of the games and activities?
Did anything surprise you? What did you enjoy? What did you not enjoy? What
can you do to improve aiming at target skills? What types of Basic movement
patterns did you in today’s activities?

o Talk about experiences

Evaluation/Assessment:

 Attendance
 Participation marks
o Are students contributing to game play?
o Are students putting in an effort to try their best?
 Observing students progression and development
 Have students write a short paragraph about the use of targets in dodge ball and how it is
significant.

Safety Consideratations:

 You are not allowed to throw the ball at the other players head. The ball must be thrown
from the chest down. (Players are allowed to stay in the game if hit above the chest)
 Instead of using a hard or rubber large ball- students could play with a smaller foam or
rhino-skin ball to eliminate injury.

Adaptive Component:

 In the drills/practices that students performed, you could adjust the difficulty for
different levels by changing aspects like the distances(moving it closer or farther apart) to
perform the task and also making the target more challenging by having it moving.
 In the dodge bowl game to make it more easy you could say if you hit the backboard
everyone on your team can stand up, or to make it more challenging you could say if you
sink a basket everyone on your team can stand up.
 Students with special needs can still participate with everyone else. They are still able to
try and catch the ball or throw the ball (depending on the specific special need)
 Students that are not mobile could participate also be protecting their teams bowling pins
(in the dodge bowl game)
  Get students involved by getting them to share the ball

Reflective Analysis

Within physical education, there are many key aspects that teachers should keep in mind

as they involve students in different developmental approaches in games and sports. Teachers

introduce students to different game forms and movement variables as they progress through

different skill levels. It is also the role of the teacher to facilitate problem solving to students in

the aspect of “preventing open space” and “creating open space.”

In this assignment we were asked to create a lesson plan for students of a specific grade

level as well as a specific game form. For my lesson plan I focused on the idea of target games

with grade six or seven. The first steps I took involved planning and organizing the lesson. What

I did first was visualize how I roughly wanted the class to go. I brainstormed different ideas of

games that use targets. Within our group we concluded that with the sources we have on campus

we would not be able to necessarily carry out the more common target games (such as curling,

archery, bowling and golf) so we decided we would have to improvise. Our tactical focus

involves the “application of target principles in other games”. This would allow us to experiment

and be creative in arranging games involving different targets.

For my lesson I wanted to focus on the game of dodge ball (and coordinating drills).

Specifically I focused on its use of aiming to hit certain targets. For my planning layout, I wanted

to stick with the “playing for understanding” strategy so I set my lesson plan up to the play-

practice-play concept. My thoughts in doing this concluded that I would first introduce an aspect
of game to the students seeing areas that may need more practice. Second I would incorporate

drills that would be beneficial to the skills needed for the particular game (in this case dodge

ball). Lastly based on the game and activities we did I would introduce a game that goes with it

all as well.

The feedback I received from peers gave me a lot of insight on my teaching as well as

what the students got out of the lesson. One of my main goals was that everyone had fun. Based

on the feedback as well as the laughs and smiles on the faces of the students, I believe that in this

aspect I was successful. The insight also told me that my games and activities went together very

well. One small suggestion being that discussing target strategies a little more would help those

they were having difficulties. It is in another lesson plan that I could expand on this and in my

drills incorporate more “strategies” of hitting targets.

The first game that I got the students to play was a game called crackerball. It is an

individual dodge ball game. I think that besides getting all the students involved and warmed up,

it also gave me a change to watch for different things that they may have been having trouble

with. From those observations I could conclude what they may need to work more. The first

game involved targets as being a moving target (students hitting other students with balls to get

them out). In the final game the targets were not only moving target hitting each other, but also

had stationary targets (the bowling pins). This worked to add some difficulty for the students

and exposed them to different types of targets as well as carrying out different strategies for

hitting the targets, and also keeping themselves safe in the game.

Another aspect of the lesson teaching that I thought I did well on was giving clear

instruction. I tried my best to explain instruction to the students to avoid and confusion. I wanted
to clarify what I was asking to make sure that everyone understood and also see if anyone had

questions. I think it was nice that after and before each activity we would come together or join

in the middle to discuss and explain. It helped that everyone was all together so that everyone

understood and there were no misunderstandings.

One area that was hard in the teaching process was having such a short period of time to

explain and carry out the activities. It allowed for only a short period of play time. (This is one

thing that could be changed in a real class because you are allotted more time.) Another area that

could be improved is my ability to speak louder. I have a fairly quiet and petite voice and so with

having another group on the other side of the gym, I may have been a little quiet. However, I

think it helped that I got the students to all come in and gather together so that everyone could

hear.

It is known that aspects such as levels of understanding can sometimes result in a change

in the way the class is run. One thing I wanted to do in my teaching experience was keep that in

mind. One strategy is to make one activity flow into the other so that it all works and goes

together, that is what I tried to do.

Overall I think that the lesson was success for both the students and myself as the

teachers. For my activities to be completely successful I felt I was at a slight disadvantage

because there were not as many students in the class that day. It made it a little more challenging

to complete the game but it still worked out fine. I think everyone seemed to enjoy themselves

and have a good time.