Year 7 - Physical education
Positional awareness to defend
Invasion games: basic tactics to overcome opponents through netball
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Unit Summary
This unit will build on fundamental skills and apply tactics to overcome opponents through netball. Development of basic passing, receiving, footwork, dodging, shooting, and defending skills with positivity in small sided games. Pupils will learn the rules of netball and names of major bones.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to mark players and deny space in different positions.
Key Notes
- Move: tracking alongside your opponent, staying close to them, makes it difficult for them to get free.
- Think: using open vision to look at where the opponent is and where the ball is equires focus.
- Think: the fibula and tibia form the lower bones of the leg.
- Feel: concentration is needed to track as a defender.
- Connect: observing how an attacking opponent moves, can inform a defender's response.
Vocabulary To Learn
- goal line: the boundary line at both ends of the court running parallel to the net
- goal defence (GD): the player allowed in centre and their own defensive goal third and their goal circle to defend shots
- goal keeper (GK): the player allowed in their own shooting circle and their defensive goal third to defend the GS
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Defending in netball is mainly a role when your opponent has the ball.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: tracking alongside your opponent, staying close to them, makes it difficult for them to get free. Think: using open vision to look at where the opponent is and where the ball is equires focus.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'goal line'
the boundary line at both ends of the court running parallel to the net.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Defending in netball is mainly a role when your opponent has the ball. Correction: Defending occurs in all positions and each player needs to track their opponent to try to deny them the opportunity to receive a pass.
More Lessons In This Unit
- Movement, space, passing and receiving Study Guide
- Outwitting opponents and ball handling under pressure Study Guide
- Playing and officiating your own small sided games fairly Study Guide
- Transition from defence to attack Study Guide
- Working cooperatively to learn to shoot with precision and understanding Study Guide
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