Year 2 - Physical education
Underarm throwing to beat an opponent
Ball skills: passing, dribbling and scoring
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Unit Summary
This unit will challenge pupils to use their dribbling, passing and receiving skills to keep possession and score. Pupils will develop their accurate underarm throwing and explore throwing overarm. Pupils will apply these skills in a variety of activities as they develop their motor competence.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to perform an underarm throw accurately when trying to beat an opponent.
Key Notes
- Move: using different body parts such as fingers, arms and feet, can help you throw with accuracy.
- Move: receiving the ball requires having our hands in the ready position and focusing on where the pass is coming from.
- Think: concentrating on the target when throwing underarm increases your chances of beating an opponent.
- Feel: trying hard to keep improving your underarm throwing demonstrates self-belief.
- Connect: congratulating and encouraging your opponent will help them develop their throwing technique.
Vocabulary To Learn
- accuracy: the ability to control where we throw an object
- opponent: a person who is on an opposing side in a game
- concentration: paying close attention to a given task
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When in a game situation and trying to beat an opponent, pupils focus on throwing with more power and speed, rather than focusing on using the correct throwing technique.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: using different body parts such as fingers, arms and feet, can help you throw with accuracy. Move: receiving the ball requires having our hands in the ready position and focusing on where the pass is coming from.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'accuracy'
the ability to control where we throw an object.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: When in a game situation and trying to beat an opponent, pupils focus on throwing with more power and speed, rather than focusing on using the correct throwing technique. Correction: Explain to pupils that using the correct technique will produce better accuracy and eventually the speed and power of throws will increase.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Application and understanding of underarm throwing Study Guide
- Combine dribbling, passing and receiving with our hands Study Guide
- Dribbling and keeping possession using our feet Study Guide
- Dribbling and keeping possession using our hands Study Guide
- Dribbling to score a point in game activities using our feet Study Guide
- Dribbling to score a point using our hands Study Guide
- Overarm throwing Study Guide
- Overarm throwing to win a game Study Guide
- Passing and receiving using our feet Study Guide
- Passing and receiving using our hands Study Guide
- Passing, receiving and dribbling to score a point using our hands Study Guide
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