Enduring Understandings
Physical Education

• 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 individually or with others.

• We can measure and monitor muscle growth and endurance in a variety of ways.

• Rules help keep games and activities safe and fair.

• Responsible participants demonstrate positive and appropriate interpersonal skills while participating in physical activity.

• Responsible participants understand the need to take care of all equipment and facilities.

Soccer Specific

• Soccer is an excellent way to be physically active.

• The skills used playing soccer benefit aerobic capacity, muscular strength and endurance, flexibility and body composition.

• Students will be able to successfully participate in a game of soccer. 

• Students will be able to dribble, shoot, pass, defend, understand spacing, and know strategies to be a good soccer player.

• Students will learn key terms and vocabulary, positions, rules of the game, and the correct techniques to dribble, pass, shoot, and defend.

Essential Questions
District

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

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

• How can people measure and monitor the endurance and strength of their major muscles?

• 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 are consequences for not following rules necessary?

• Why are honesty, responsibility, sportsmanship, confidence, courtesy, respect, judgment, integrity, perseverance, and being a good team mate important skills in P.E. and in life? 

• How does knowledge of the purpose and care of equipment help create responsible physical education participants? 

• Where does one’s personal space end and someone else’s space begin?

• Why is cooperation important in games and in life?
  How does cooperation in games impact the final outcome?

• What does good sportsmanship look like?

Soccer Specific:

• How does soccer help me to be physically active?

• How is soccer played?

• Do I have the skills and know how to actively participate in a soccer game?

Standards

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
Essential Skills: Demonstrates loco motor, non-loco motor, and manipulative skills in isolation and combination
Standard 2:  Exhibits components of physical fitness
Essential Skills: 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.
Standard 3: Participates in guided and self directed activities
Benchmark Activities: Demonstrates responsibility while participating in guided and self directed activities
District Indicator: Participates in a variety of activities
Follows written, oral, and demonstration directions
Standard 4: Demonstrates Knowledge in Team and Individual Sports
Benchmark Activities: Demonstrates & models behavior
District Indicator: Follows physical education class rules
Demonstrates knowledge through assessment
Essential Skills: Follows class rules, game rules and demonstrates safety at all times
Being able to differentiate reasons for specific rules
Standard 5: Demonstrates the knowledge necessary to participate in physical activity; safe use and respect of equipment
Benchmark Activities: Demonstrates & practices self control
District Indicator: Takes turns using equipment properly and safely
Essential Skills: Follows activity specific rules with few reminders, activity and takes turns with equipment
Standard 6: Students recognize the role of physical activity and its unique contribution to their social, emotional, mental and physical development
Benchmark Activities: Collaborative team work - sportsmanship
District Indicator: Works cooperatively with others and exhibits spatial awareness
Essential Skills: Accepts appropriate behavior for winning and losing, honoring personal boundaries, accepts decisions of teammates and officials, encourage teammates and others.

Resources

Soccer Study Guide
Soccer Written Assessment
Performance Assessment Rubric

Web Sites:

www.us-soccer.com
www.usysa.org
www.fifa.com

Lessons

Lesson 1: Conditioning and dribbling skills
Duration: 1 Class Period

Students are in groups of three with one ball per group. Each group is in a line with a cone or marker 30 yards away.

Dribbling: Keep your head up and the ball in front of you. Use your left and right foot and stay in control. Do each skill as many times as time and skill level allows.

• Dribble to the cone.

• Dribble with your right foot only, alternating using the inside and outside of your foot.

• Dribble with your left foot only, alternating using the inside and outside of your foot.

• Dribble alternating feet with each touch.

• Dribble out to the cone/marker: 20 touches on the top of the ball alternating feet.  Keep your weight on the foot that is on the ground.

• Dribble backwards pulling the ball.

  • Hop on one foot pulling the ball with the other.

  • Alternate feet.

At the conclusion on the lesson discuss the importance of dribbling. Evaluate your skills and practice those skills not mastered. Assessment Chart
Need a challenge?  Go faster or add obstacles to dribble around.

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Lesson 2: Conditioning, dribbling, and passing skills
Duration: 1 Class Period

Practice the same dribbling skills you learned yesterday. The more you practice, the better soccer player you will become. Even professional players begin each practice with the basic skills.
Passing: Pass with the inside of your foot. Keep the ball in control and on the ground by placing your plant foot next to the ball and keep your body over the ball. When you are receiving a pass, trap the ball with the inside or bottom of your foot.

• Line passing:  Have two groups of three line up opposite of each other.  Pass the ball on the ground and follow your pass to the end of the receiving line (following your pass allows you to continually move as you would in a game and also increases your cardiovascular endurance).  The receiver must trap the ball prior to passing it.  Remember to practice with both your right and left foot.

• Partner passing:  You need a partner and a ball.  Pass the ball back and forth while jogging and eventually running down the field.  Be sure to practice with both your left and right foot. Assessment Chart

In conclusion, discuss when it is appropriate to pass the ball and why. Tonight, practice dribbling and passing.

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Lesson 3: Conditioning, dribbling, passing skills and throw-in skills.
Duration: 1 Class Period

Dribble drills: Remember to keep the ball in front of you, your head up, so you can see your teammates and go as fast as you can while being in control.

Passing drills: Practice makes perfect!

Throw-in: Keep both feet on the ground; throw the ball with both hands, bringing the ball behind your head. Throw the ball to your teammate’s feet, so they will be able to control it and make an offensive move.
A throw-in is used to put the ball in play after it goes out of bounds on the sideline.

Set up the groups as in line passing from day 2. Throw the ball in correctly and follow the ball to the end of the receiving line. Practice throwing the ball in at different distances. Assessment Chart

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Lesson 4: Combing skills
Duration: 1 Class Period

Take a few minutes to practice dribbling, passing, trapping, and throw-ins.
Shooting: When shooting a soccer ball use the inside or top of your foot. Do not shoot the ball with your toes (ouch, that hurts). Practice shooting at different distances.

Play Four Corners

In conclusion discuss how important each skill is in a game. For example you need to have a good pass and trap to get off a good shot.Student Checklist

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Lesson 5: Soccer Stations
Duration: 1 Class Period

Today you will get a chance to practice and refine all of the skills you have learned. Work hard and tomorrow we will begin discussing strategies and get into game-like situations.

Stations – Divide kids into groups, use as many stations as you need depending on class size. You can also duplicate stations to keep the group a good size.

• Dribbling through cones
• Juggling
• Thrown-ins
• Trapping:  chest, thighs, and feet
• Penalty kick
• Punting
• Shooting

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Lesson 6: Defense and Spacing
Duration: 1 Class Period

A great way to learn about defense and spacing at the same time is to play Five versus Two: 

• Five offensive players are in a circle while two defensive players are in the middle.
• Offensive players try to keep the ball as long as possible. 
• Work on trapping the ball under control and passing the ball to an open teammate.
• You will learn how to split the defense with a through ball and how beneficial it is to pass the ball square to a teammate. 
• Offensive players will also learn how to move without the ball to the open area.
• Defenders will learn to watch the ball, know where their teammate is and where the other offenders are.

Student Checklist

At the conclusion of day 6, introduce students to the rules of soccer. This will give you more time to review the rules tomorrow and get a chance to play. Soccer Study Guide

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Lesson 7: Play 6 on 6
Duration: 1 Class Period

Review the rules and discuss the physical benefits of playing soccer. The expectation is that all players are moving at all times. This is why we begin play with 6 on 6. Have as many fields as necessary set up. During the class period you may want to have a brief half time and switch opposing teams.

In conclusion give the students a chance to self evaluate.

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Lesson 8: Positions and Games
Duration: 1 Class Period

Today you will learn the four different positions the eleven soccer players play. 

• You will learn where they play on the field and the characteristics of each position.

• Once placed on a team, discuss who will play what position.  Be sure you get a chance to try all of the positions.

• Play a game with any time remaining

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Lesson 9: Soccer Games
Duration: 1 - 4 Class Periods

You will again get a chance to play a game. Every so often your teacher will ask you to play a new position so each player gets a chance to experience all the positions.

In conclusion, ask the students to describe what position they are best at and why? At this point, you may choose to play games for as many days as the students are interested. Review the rules and the positions.

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Lesson 10: Assessment
Duration: 1 Class Period

• Skills test
• Self evaluation

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Lesson 11: Assessment
Duration: 1 Class Period

• Written test
• Plus/Delta

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Lesson 12: Speedball
Duration: 1 - 4 Class Periods

Speedball is a combination of soccer, rugby, and football. You can kick the ball up to yourself or to a teammate who can then catch it and throw it to other teammate. When the ball hits the ground it is played like soccer.

Soccer goal – 3 points
Touchdown – 1 point
Field goal – 2 point

This is a great game that kids love and it really gets them moving.