Year 1 - Physical education
Dribbling and sending with hands
Ball skills: sending, receiving and dribbling
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This pupil-friendly study guide includes a unit summary, clear notes, common mistakes, and quick questions with answers.
Unit Summary
The unit will explore and develop pupils' movement competence when sending and receiving a ball. They will develop and apply an understanding of how, where and why we send a ball, stop the ball and dribble the ball using our hands and feet effectively. Pupils will also explore working in teams.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to dribble the ball and pass to your partner with control.
Key Notes
- Move: looking up while dribbling the ball, enables us to look for space and avoid defenders.
- Move: passing the ball using our hands and pushing the ball towards our teammate, helps keep possession of the ball.
- Think: dribbling and passing are both ways of keeping the ball away from a defender, which helps us to keep possession.
- Feel: stopping to pass the ball when others tag you in a game shows honesty.
- Connect: playing by the rules of the game demonstrates fairness.
Vocabulary To Learn
- dribbling: using our hands or feet to move with the ball keeping it under control
- pass: giving the ball from one player to another
- possession: the team in control of the ball
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils throw the ball focusing on throwing it hard and high, instead of passing with accuracy.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: looking up while dribbling the ball, enables us to look for space and avoid defenders. Move: passing the ball using our hands and pushing the ball towards our teammate, helps keep possession of the ball.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'dribbling'
using our hands or feet to move with the ball keeping it under control.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils throw the ball focusing on throwing it hard and high, instead of passing with accuracy. Correction: Ensure pupils understand that a pass requires control and accuracy.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Develop moving with the ball using our feet (dribbling) Study Guide
- Dribbling with hands Study Guide
- Dribbling with our feet in games Study Guide
- Kicking (passing) Study Guide
- Moving with a ball using our feet Study Guide
- Rolling (sending) and stopping skills to win a game Study Guide
- Rolling and stopping Study Guide
- Rolling and stopping in games Study Guide
- Throwing (underarm) Study Guide
- Throwing and catching Study Guide
- Throwing with accuracy to win a game Study Guide
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