Year 9 - Physical education
Shooting techniques and defence
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 shoot accurately at the goal.
Key Notes
- Move: power is generated by taking steps into a jump shot.
- Move: follow through with your throwing arm towards the target improves accuracy to guide the ball's path after release.
- Think: only the goalkeeper can enter the 6 metre area. Attackers are not allowed to stand in this area while shooting.
- Feel: enduring the complexity of shooting on the move requires resilience.
- Connect: working together in defence reduces the potential of open shots on goal.
Vocabulary To Learn
- standing shot: a shooting technique whilst stationary
- bounced shot: shooting on goal with the ball hitting the floor on its way
- jump shot: a shooting technique performed while the players feet are in the air
Common Mistakes To Avoid
- Pupils think the shooter is allowed in the D to score (like netball).
3 Quick Questions (With Answers)
1. Explain the lesson in two key points.
Move: power is generated by taking steps into a jump shot. Move: follow through with your throwing arm towards the target improves accuracy to guide the ball's path after release.
2. What does this key word mean in this lesson? 'standing shot'
a shooting technique whilst stationary.
3. Correct this common mistake.
Mistake: Pupils think the shooter is allowed in the D to score (like netball). Correction: The only person allowed in the D is the goalkeeper, shooters have to shoot from outside the D, otherwise the goal doesn't count.
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