Year 10 - Physical education
Pass and receive
Non-examined assessment: basketball practical
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Unit Summary
This unit provides pupils with the knowledge and opportunity to replicate skills in isolation and in performance scenarios in basketball. As a popular team sport offered it will cover passing/receiving, dribbling, shooting, marking and defending and decision making in both attack and defence.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to pass over a range of distances.
Key Notes
- Move: the ball is pushed with either one or two hands, with a follow through towards an intended target.
- Think: a bounce pass is most effective when a defender is between you and a teammate.
- Feel: quick decision making to use a fake pass builds confidence on the ball to make the right pass.
- Connect: communicating your direction of travel early supports the choice of pass by teammates.
Vocabulary To Learn
- air pass: the ball travels between players without hitting the floor, such as a chest, javelin or overhead pass
- bounce pass: involves throwing the ball to the floor so it bounces to a teammate
- fake pass: a move to pretend to pass the ball to trick a defender into reacting
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think that for GCSE assessment, passing is only required in isolation to demonstrate the correct techniques.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: the ball is pushed with either one or two hands, with a follow through towards an intended target. Think: a bounce pass is most effective when a defender is between you and a teammate.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'air pass'
the ball travels between players without hitting the floor, such as a chest, javelin or overhead pass.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think that for GCSE assessment, passing is only required in isolation to demonstrate the correct techniques. Correction: Passing needs to be seen in progressive and conditioned practices to showcase the technique when faced with opposition and decision making.
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