Flag Football 9/14

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: 7th to 9th 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.

Flag Football 9/17

Weber State University Physical Education

Lesson Plan

Activity: Flag Football

Skill(s): Using learned skills in game play

Grade Level: 7^th to 9^th grade

# of Students: 40 Equipment: Flags, cones, footballs

Connect to Utah State Standard: Standard 5 Objective 1 A – Identify and follow rules while playing sports and games, while keeping winning and losing in perspective.

Learning Objectives:

Cognitive- The students will understand and follow the rules of flag football.

Affective- The students will have an increased motivation to play flag football in the future.

Psychomotor- The students will complete at least 4 downs and touch the ball at least once before a turn over.

Safety Issues: The students need to be careful of where their flags hang on their waists so they can be pulled easily without being touched inappropriately.

Student grouping for each activity: The students will be in their pre assigned squads.

Technical Description of the skills: The students will play in the actual game play. They will keep score and follow all of the rules.

Verbal Cues: Hike, Down

Learning Experiences:

Introduction-We will go through our warm up skills in a different format and then proceed into game play.

Closure- Before the students are sent to change they will write in their journals the following questions.

1. What are the skills that we do in the warm up?

2. How motivated are you to play flag football? Rate yourself 0 to 10

3. What is your favorite part about flag football?

Assessments: I will read their journal entries and assess how their motivation has changed from the beginning of last week until now. I will also see if they are retaining the skills that we are doing in the warm up everyday.

Follow up suggestions: Ask the girls if they would like to play in a class size game. If you feel they are ready and mature enough for it and that everyone will participate.

Reference:

Diagram of learning environment and equipment set up:

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.

Flag Football 9/13

Weber State University Physical Education

Lesson Plan

Activity: Flag foot ball

Skill(s): Running, Catching, Passing Grade Level: 7^th to 9^th grade

# of Students: 40 Equipment: Foot balls and cones

Connect to Utah State Standard: Standard 5 Objective 1 B- Make responsible choices based on the safety of self and others when participating in physical activities.

Learning Objectives:

Cognitive- By the end of class the students will understand how to run down the field and maneuver to catch a pass.

Affective- Students will feel a need to help their teams win.

Psychomotor- By the end of class each girl will have run down the field at least 4 times.

Safety Issues: The girls will need to be cognizant of others running around the drill as well as those who are trying to catch and intercept the pass.

Student grouping for each activity: I will first split the girls into 3 groups separated by their grade. We will also do the whistle mixer idea and use their previously assigned squads to put them in teams.

Technical Description of the skills: We will do our normal warm up skills that consist of high knees, butt kicks, spiderman, skipping, and the back peddle. We will do these motor skills while doing the while mixer. I will then add a gallop.

For the first drill I will have the girls be in three groups and each will be lined up at the half line of the field I will tell them when to go and then I will throw the ball to whoever calls for it or in the general direction. If they are having a hard time I will have them get into their squads and half them practice passing again.

If the girls seem to be standing for too long, I will have 6 lines that consist of two in each grade. And have 6 people go at once. We’ll just have to see how it goes and then adjust it as times goes on. Each grade will receive a point for each catch that was made depending on who caught the ball.

After a certain amount of passes or rounds I will assign 1^st 2^nd and 3^rd place teams an assignment to do such as do 20 jumping jacks or run 1 lap. I will let the girls pick the task a head of time.

Verbal Cues: Cut (meaning to stop running and turn around) and Hike (Go).

Learning Experiences:

Introduction- I will introduce the whistle mixer to them and also go over the 5 P’s again. I want to get those rules ingrained into their minds.

Closure- I have asked everyone to bring a notebook that they can leave in their lockers. I will ask them the following questions and have them record their answers in their journal.

1. Draw a picture of a running pass that you saw was used or that you used to catch the ball.
2. Did you want your team to win? Did you try to help them win?
3. About how many times did you get to make a run down the field?

Assessments: My assessment will take place in the girls’ journals. I will do my best to watch everyone and write down what I see but I will use what they write down to help me assess them and what they are doing in class.

Follow up suggestions: Did they get bored? If they are progressing really well, I might put them in a game situation and reward the teams that used what we just learn in the drill.

Reference: none

Diagram of learning environment and equipment set up:

Purple = Me

Green= 7^th graders

Blue= 8^th Graders

Orange= 9^th Graders

Orange Squares= Cones

Red= Football

Once I say hike, the first girl in each line will try to catch the ball. Some will just run and some will make a cut to get the ball. I will give the girls that want to turns at throwing the ball. We will use only one ball so that it gets returned quickly.