Year 4 - Physical education
Shooting and how to create shooting opportunities
Invasion games: maintaining possession and stopping an attack through basketball
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Unit Summary
This unit will develop pupils' ability to apply the principles of attack vs defence through basketball. Pupils will develop their movement competence in passing, moving and dribbling and apply these skills to create shooting opportunities. When defending, pupils will learn how to stop an attack.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to shoot using the correct technique and use your passing and dribbling skills to create an attack that results in a shooting opportunity.
Key Notes
- Move: when trying to outwit an opponent, we combine our passing and dribbling skills to create an attack on goal.
- Move: to shoot, hold the ball in one hand, the other supporting, elbow up, pushing with your legs, extending the arm.
- Think: carefully selecting when and where to shoot, pass or dribble in a game helps improve our performance.
- Feel: striving to improve our shooting even when we are struggling to score demonstrates self-motivation.
- Connect: encouragement and cooperation are important when working as a team to improve our performances in games.
Vocabulary To Learn
- game: an activity or sport in which people compete with each other according to agreed rules
- attack: trying to score points or goals
- evaluate: to assess the quality of our performance
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils believe that they only need to use their arms when shooting.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: when trying to outwit an opponent, we combine our passing and dribbling skills to create an attack on goal. Move: to shoot, hold the ball in one hand, the other supporting, elbow up, pushing with your legs, extending the arm.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'game'
an activity or sport in which people compete with each other according to agreed rules.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils believe that they only need to use their arms when shooting. Correction: Explain to pupils that shooting effectively involves the whole body, paticularly the legs that give us more power. Coordinated body movement will be more successful than just arm strength.
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