This lesson will help students see that fitness can be fun and beneficial while also being involved in a team game. Additionally, this is a great game to teach students how to move into open spaces to receive passes from teammates. Students will also seek to elevate their heart rate to their Exercise Benefit Zone throughout the game.
This alignment results from the ALEX Health/PE COS Resource Alignment Summit.
Utilize a variety of offensive skills to create open space during practice tasks without defensive pressure.
Demonstrate defensive readiness and movement in all directions while maintaining correct position.
Identify offensive and defensive tactics to create or reduce open space in a variety of activities.
Demonstrate a quick recovery when transitioning from offense to defense or defense to offense.
Identify the skills or strategies necessary to score.
Identify the skills or strategies necessary to prevent the opponent from scoring.
Define resting heart rate and describe its relationship to moderate and vigorous activity.
Pass and receive using hands and feet in combination with locomotor patterns, change of direction, and/or speed, with proficiency.
Perform a variety of offensive skills with defensive pressure.
Differentiate among various defensive strategies utilized in a variety of sports.
Execute a variety of offensive and defensive tactics to create open space.
Utilize communication when transitioning from offense to defense or defense to offense.
Demonstrate the skills or strategies necessary to score under pressure.
Demonstrate the skills or strategies necessary to prevent the opponent from scoring.
Execute a variety of offensive skills during modified game play.
Utilize appropriate defensive strategies during modified game play.
Open and close space during modified game play by combining locomotor movements with movement concepts.
Analyze and critique effective transitions and anticipation of opponent’s strategy by recovering quickly, communicating with teammates, and capitalizing on an advantage.
Apply the skills or strategies necessary to score in modified game play.
Apply the skills or strategies necessary to prevent the opponent from scoring in a game situation.
