Sept14 Flag Football Drills

Weber State University Physical Education

Lesson Plan

Activity: Flag football drills

Skill(s): Students will learn how to run while protecting the ball from opponents. They will learn pass patterns.

Grade Level: 7^th to 9^th Grade Girls

# of Students: 40

Equipment: Cones, Footballs

Connect to Utah State Standard: Standard 2 Objective 1 A. Apply the principle of transfer of learning by identifying similarities and differences of movement concepts to facilitate the learning of a new skill.

Learning Objectives:

Cognitive- Students will understand the passing and protecting drill by correctly running to the next line.

Affective- Students will feel more prepared and more motivated to play flag football this week.

Psychomotor- Students will demonstrate how to protect the ball by hugging it and holding it close into their body.

Safety Issues: Students will be careful not to run into the other lines.

Student grouping for each activity: I will use the whistle mixer to get the students into 8 groups. Each of the two drills will have 4 lines.

Technical Description of the skills: Students will form 4 lines at each of the four corners of a square. Lines 1 and 3 will pass to Line 2 and 4. Lines 2 and 4 will then take the ball, protect it, and run to lines 1 and 3 to return the ball. See picture or diagram below.

Verbal Cues: Hug the ball. Hike.

Learning Experiences:

Introduction- Use the skills we have learned in the previous lessons to know where to run and how to throw the ball to our teammate.

Closure- I will explain how we are using all of these drill in preparation for actual game play at the end of the unit. Also, the girls will feel more prepared and more motivated to play flag football this week.

Assessments: The affective assessment will take place later in the week in their journals. I have previously asked what they would rate their motivation and I hope by the end of the week the average of 4.9 will go up. Also, I will observe each of the girls as the drill goes on to see if they are completing the cognitive and psychomotor objectives.

Follow up suggestions: Add previous drills together and let them make up their own drills. Or if the girls are getting bored, tell them to run at the girl they just passed the ball to. This will get the runners in the mind set they need to protect the ball and run.

Reference: none

Diagram of learning environment and equipment set up:

Orange= Cones

Light Blue= Students

Big Blue= Runners

Red= Footballs

The first students in lines 1 and 3 will pass their footballs to the first person in lines 2 and 4. Those runners will then protect the ball while running to give the ball to the first person in lines 3 and 1. You run to the line that you passed or ran to.