District 11 Educational Support Services
Health & Physical Education

Grade  3 - 5, Volleyball Unit

Overview

Why is football so popular? Can everyone play football? Is it hard to throw or catch a football? In this unit we will learn how to hold and throw a football. We will learn how to catch and run with a football. You will learn to run different routes and how to defend someone. We will learn the rules of football and different positions. At the end of this unit, you will take a skills and written test to demonstrate what you have learned.

To help your understanding of the different positions in football, you will be given a paper with Football Routes and a semantic map of the different Football Positions. Your written test will be a blank semantic map and you will have to write down the names for the routes. Your skills test will consist of throwing a football properly and running different routes. 

Standards

Enduring Understandings - important ideas that students should carry with them years beyond the instruction received this year.

  • A complete fitness program promotes participation in grade level skills and activities that build health and wellness including cardiovascular, flexibility, body composition, muscular strength and endurance, and lifetime activity.

  • Good sportsmanship includes following rules of play and being responsible for yourself and the safety of others.

  • We can increase our health and wellness by participating in the physical activities we lead or participate in by ourselves and with others.

  • Rules help keep games and activities safe and fair.

Essential Questions - most important “big picture” questions students should be able to answer after completing learning activities.

  • How does movement, muscle stretching, doing sit ups, push ups and pull ups increase body strength and overall health?

  • How can people protect themselves sore muscles or injury from over exercising? 

  • Why do we have to be responsible for our own behavior?

  • What is the purpose for rules of play in athletic or competitive sports?

  • How do class rules and team rules help make competitive sports and individual sports more enjoyable?

  • Why is cooperation important in games and in life?

  • How does cooperation in games impact the final outcome?

  • What does good sportsmanship look like?

Standard 1: Demonstrates skills in a variety of activities
Benchmark: Loco motor, non-loco motor, manipulative skill development and movement
District Indicator: Repeatedly performs loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Standard 2: Exhibits components of physical fitness
District Indicator: Demonstrates cardiovascular endurance
District Indicator: Demonstrates flexibility
District Indicator: Demonstrates muscular strength and endurance
Essential Skills
Demonstrates loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Demonstrates cardiovascular endurance, muscular strength and flexibility.
Participates in a standardized fitness test.
Cardiovascular - Participated in games that increase breathing, heart rate, sustains activity for increasingly longer periods of time.

Lessons

 

 

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