Topic: Soccer

Concept Focus:

To understand the game of soccer and how to work on a team by using certain skills

to achieve the objective of the game.

Skill Focus:

Tactical: To understand the positions on the field and the roles of each type of

position. The ability to understand how to move the ball toward the net effectively using

passing. And to be able to create space by passing and moving the ball from team-mate to

team-mate.

Technical: Proper passing techniques, a spatial understanding of space and where to

pass the ball. Focusing on the basic movement patterns of sending and receiving at the

beginner and intermediate levels. Also, this lesson will focus on the locomotion patterns

that are needed to move around the soccer field.

Cross-Curricular Competencies:

-Developing Thinking

-Developing Identity and Interdependence

-Developing Social Responsibility

Common Essential Learnings:

-Communication—Students are learning how to communicate with their peers to

help meet the goal of the sport. This teaches students how to work together to solve a

problem.

-Independent Learning—This allows for students to discover what works and what

doesn’t when it comes to playing the game of soccer. They can discover what kinds of

passes or shots are most effective.

discover and experience different types of skills and strategies that work best to meet their

goal. They can use the ideas of other students and share their experiences and knowledge.

Objectives:

To provide students with an easier way to understand the game of soccer and how to

play on a team. This lesson will provide students with understanding as well as skill

development and tactical development in playing soccer.

Materials:

-beach balls

-soccer balls

-pylons/cones

-soccer nets

Set:

The lesson will begin with a quick review of the game of soccer and how it works.

Next, will be a class discussion of soccer skills, focusing on passing. This will allow an

opportunity for the students to teach each other and themselves. The discussion will be

focused on why passing is used in soccer, what the different ways to pass are, etc. The

discussion will also include some tactics and strategies of soccer. This gives the class an

opportunity to talk about passing to open spaces and creating spaces in both offensive and

defensive strategies. As the students and teacher are discussing these things, quick

examples will be provided for everyone to make sure everyone understands what is going

on. After this, the warm-up game will be played.

Lead-up Game:

This is a relay game focused on passing a ball using feet. It will focus on sending

and receiving using more so intermediate performance cues. These cues include weight

transfer, pre-stretch, range of motion and follow through for sending. And the cues for

receiving are absorption, hand-eye coordination and direction of body alignment.

Students will be split off into 2-4 teams. Each student will spread themselves out

evenly in a line that reaches from one end of the gym to another. The person at the front

will start with the ball and on the shout of “Go!” will kick it to the next person. That

person will receive and turn to kick it to the next person and so on. The last person will

then shoot the ball into the net. A beach ball will be used in this activity just in case

students don’t possess enough control, and therefore no one will get hurt. This is a relay

race so the first team to get the ball into the net wins. The teams can be switched and

rearranged to do this activity a couple times over.

This activity is good for warming up the children as well as introducing them into

the topic of the lesson. After a few minutes of this, there will be a class discussion about

what just happened, what skills were used, etc. The teacher will ask questions to lead

students thinking about passing and what they had to do in order to complete a successful

pass as quick as possible. This will lead right into the practice activity for passing.

This activity not only focuses on making good and accurate passes, but also focuses

on a tactical strategy of the game of soccer. It will focus on creating space offensively.

The students will focus on the performance cues for making an accurate pass to their

partner. The partner will focus on getting to the ball and receiving it. Then they will do

this back and forth, practising.

apart from each other. The partner with the ball will kick it towards the other partner but

not right to them. They will focus on kicking it a few feet away. The receiving partner will

run up to the pass, receive it, and send it back. Each student will focus on what was talked

about in the discussion to make their passes better. Every couple minutes, the teacher will

stop the class and ask the students to come up with ways to make their passes more

accurate, more powerful, quicker, etc. as well as how the partner can get to them and

receive them easier and more efficiently.

After this practice, there will be another game. This is a modified version of the

game of soccer for students to learn to play and understand the concepts and strategies for

it. The class will be split off into two teams. The gym will be divided into three sections

using the cones. Each section will represent a basic position in soccer. The three sections

will be forward, midfield and defence. This is so that the students stay in their section and

learn the position, rather than everyone just running after the ball. There will be 10 people

from each team on the field at a time, the other players will be on the sidelines, but will be

players in the game as well. On a team, one student will be in net, and three students in

each position section. After every couple minutes, the teacher will stop the game and rotate

the sideline people into the defence position and everyone moves up a section. This way

everyone in the class gets a turn at all the positions.

This will be played exactly like a regular soccer game just with some different rules.

The students will play with one beach ball so that no one gets hurt. They will use the

activities from before and incorporate them into this game. Some rules and guidelines are:

1. There must be at least 3 passes between team-mates before a shot on goal can be

taken.
 2. At least one of the passes must be to a sidelines team-mate before shooting on

goal.

3. The ball can be stolen from an opposing team-mate, so students must pass

quickly.

4. Students can practice passing forwards or backwards to avoid the defence.

5. Sideline people should be following the ball as it moves from section to section.

As the students follow these guidelines and the basic rules of soccer, they are free to play.

Everyone will get a chance to play and score can be kept if the teacher wants to.

Closure:

After the lesson, the class will give feedback about the game. They will talk about

what they learned, what they liked/disliked, how they can improve, etc. The teacher will

guide this discussion by asking questions to help students achieve a better understanding

for the activity and the sport. The teacher can also review the tactical and technical

focuses. This lesson will lead nicely into the next day’s lesson because it can be focused on

the positioning of the players or shooting on net. The students had an introduction to it

today, and it will be further understood in the next lesson.

Assessment/Evaluation:

The evaluation for this lesson plan will be based on a few different aspects of the

lesson. This would just be a general everyday evaluation that led to the final grade put on

the report card. The assessment will be based on the participation and effort that each

student put into the activities in the lesson. Some aspects may be based on:

-if the student is listening to instructions and other people

-if the student is following the guidelines and activities properly

wasn’t instructed

-if the student is taking the discussions into consideration and trying to improve

their skills and abilities

Taking all these into consideration can be used in an assessment of the student’s

participation of the activities.

Safety Considerations:

The students will be using beach balls instead of real soccer balls to prevent any

injuries. This way if someone gets hit by a ball it won’t hurt nearly as much as a soccer

ball. Also, making sure the students are spread out enough and in the same direction so

they don’t hurt themselves or others.

Adaptive Component:

These activities can be adapted to students who are physically challenged. For

example, for students in wheelchairs, these activities can just be changed from using feet to

hands. They can still focus on sending and receiving as well as relaying and playing a

game to score on net. They can just throw and catch a ball instead of kicking it. As for

students who are mentally challenged, it all really depends on their condition. But this

activity can be adapted to focus on the more basic skills of soccer, such as passing and

hitting a target, or maybe just simple kicking. There are many modifications that can be

made for this goal orientated, net sport.

Passing and Positions

Katy Kohli

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February 25, 2010