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Year 10 - Physical education

Games: can you dribble a ball with precision using your hands and feet?

Remote learning: designing competitive games

Unit Summary

This unit offers opportunities to design games requiring ball control and tactical skill to achieve personal bests in complex tasks. Pupils will think creatively to adapt games to their environment and equipment, while challenging others to reach their own personal bests.

Lesson Summary

You will learn to dribble a ball with precision whilst transferring it from your hands to your feet.

Key Notes

  • Move: dribbling the ball requires delicate touch, coordination and timing.
  • Think: understanding how to vary the direction and force applied to the ball impacts its trajectory and speed.
  • Feel: to dribble the ball and advance into space requires determination and effort.
  • Connect: dribbling to keep control of the ball can affect other players in a game.

Vocabulary To Learn

  • outwit: to defeat or gain an advantage over an opponent through superior intelligence, cleverness or strategy, rather than just physical ability
  • competitive: a strong desire to win or succeed
  • control: the ability to manage your body movements accurately and safely

Common Mistakes To Avoid

  • When dribbling, you should always be looking at the ball in order to maintain control.

3 Quick Questions (With Answers)

1. Explain the lesson in two key points.

Move: dribbling the ball requires delicate touch, coordination and timing. Think: understanding how to vary the direction and force applied to the ball impacts its trajectory and speed.

2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'outwit'

to defeat or gain an advantage over an opponent through superior intelligence, cleverness or strategy, rather than just physical ability.

3. Correct this common mistake.

Mistake: When dribbling, you should always be looking at the ball in order to maintain control. Correction: When dribbling, it is important to look up to see your surroundings, any opposition and where the space is.

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