Year 9 - Physical education
Advanced passing and team play
Invasion games: adapt tactics and strategies through handball
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Unit Summary
This unit explores ways to adapt skills, tactics and strategies and apply them with adherence to the rules of handball. Pupils will develop their resilience as they utilise the full rules and officiate their own games.
Lesson Summary
You will learn to outwit the opposition through movement on and off the ball.
Key Notes
- Move: the arm is recoiled in the direction the ball is travelling for one handed catches.
- Move: stepping forward with your opposite foot helps to direct your overhead pass with accuracy.
- Think: one handed catches are faster but come with increased risk of dropping the ball.
- Feel: bouncing back from mistakes and lost possession requires resilience.
- Connect: using good communication and eye contact with team mates enables greater success at keeping possession.
Vocabulary To Learn
- give-and-go: an attacking play that involved passing the ball (give) and running (go) to an open spot to receive the ball back
- overhed pass: a pass thrown from above the head to outwit a player marking the ball usually over a longer distance
- accuracy: a skill that reaches the intended target
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think the only movement that is important is the movement with the ball.
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: the arm is recoiled in the direction the ball is travelling for one handed catches. Move: stepping forward with your opposite foot helps to direct your overhead pass with accuracy.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'give-and-go'
an attacking play that involved passing the ball (give) and running (go) to an open spot to receive the ball back.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think the only movement that is important is the movement with the ball. Correction: Movement off the ball is just as important, it helps create space and supports the player in possession.
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