Year 7 - Physical education
Games: can you dribble a ball with your hands and your feet?
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Unit Summary
This unit will explore basic agility, balance and coordination skills with a focus on ball control and challenges to develop competence in a range of games. Pupils will need to think creatively to modify the ideas presented to them whilst producing personal best performances.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to dribble a ball with your hands and your feet with control.
Key Notes
- Move: controlling the ball in hand is done by using the fingertips to cushion the ball.
- Move: controlling the ball at the feet is done by using small taps with the inside and outside of your foot.
- Think: looking up helps you to develop kinaesthetic awareness to maintain ball control whilst scanning the environment.
- Feel: confidence is built by repeating different movements with the ball.
- Connect: playing fairly and by all the rules helps everyone enjoy the game and shows respect.
Vocabulary To Learn
- kinaesthesis: the body's awareness of movement and position
- dribbling: moving with the ball while keeping it close and under control with hands or feet
- coordination: using different body parts at the same time, smoothly and with control
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- When dribbling the ball, your head should look at it.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: controlling the ball in hand is done by using the fingertips to cushion the ball. Move: controlling the ball at the feet is done by using small taps with the inside and outside of your foot.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'kinaesthesis'
the body's awareness of movement and position.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: When dribbling the ball, your head should look at it. Correction: When dribbling, your head should look up to develop kinaesthetic awareness and maintain ball control, without bumping into anything in the working area/environment.
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