Warm Up
Ask children to find a space and sit down. Recap on the
importance of being active, how bodies change during activity and
how to exercise safely. Tell children that the warm up activity
today is called 'Ball Pools' and is similar to the game Islands
played in an earlier lesson. Explain how to play the game (see
teacher factfile) and play a few rounds, gradually increasing the
intensity of the activities.
Introductory Activity and
Experimentation
Ask children to spend a few minutes moving the ball
with their feet in different ways - dribbling, kicking, chasing and
collecting. Ask children to choose a target - large or small and
practice hitting it. How many times can they hit the target before
they miss it? Can they work with a partner to practice some skills
learnt in earlier lessons?
Choose two or three pairs of children to
demonstrate what they have been doing and ask other children in the
class to describe what they are doing. Talk about the best way to
control a ball, what part of the foot to use, etc.
Skill
Building
Tell
children that today they are going to work on aiming skills and
passing the ball to their partner and back. Ask if any children have
seen games where the ball is passed from one player to another. Why
is it necessary to do this? They will also be trying to stop their
partner passing a ball through a target. Why do they think this is
an important skill?
Ask children to choose a partner and practice
kicking the ball between them, touching the ball with the foot and
pulling it backwards to stop it. Can children kick the ball back
while it is still moving? Challenge children to try to pass the ball
to their partner while they move around the room. Explain that it
will be easier to do this if they move slowly.
Next tell children to
take two cones or markers and use them to make a fairly wide goal.
Children should stand on each side of the goal and kick the ball
through the goal to each other. They can score a point each time
they do so successfully. After two kicks each children should move
the goals closer together if they have been successful.
Next discuss
the idea of defending the goal and explain that children will take
turns to the the goalie. They must try to stop their partner kicking
the ball through the goal. Encourage them to vary the width of the
goal. Is it easier to score a goal through a wide goal? What size
goal is easier to defend?
Concluding
Activity
Ask children to work in
groups of 4 and to choose three pieces of apparatus. Tell children
you want them to make up a scoring game and ask children to spend a
few minutes thinking about their game. Give them a few minutes to
practice the game and then get each group to demonstrate their game
to the rest of the class explaining the rules.
Cool Down
Ask children
to walk around slowly and silently. Remind them about good posture,
keeping their backs straight, their head up and looking forwards. At
first get them to walk quickly but then decrease the pace until they
are hardly moving at all. At this stage ask them to sit upright and
then slowly lay on their chests with their heads resting on their
arms.
Remind them of the skills they have learnt in this lesson and
also the other seven lessons in this unit.
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