Movement exploration - Week 3

Stage 1 - Phase one

Equipment

Beanbags
Marker cones
Hula hoops
Balls

Download the Movement exploration games - Week 3 activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

FMS focus: Dodge

Learning intention

Students are developing proficiency in the dodge.

Success criteria

Students display:

Changes direction by bending knee and pushing off the outside foot.
Change of direction occurs in one step.
Body lowered during change of direction or in the direction of travel.
Eyes focused forward.
Dodge repeated equally well on both sides.

Explicit teaching of the dodge

About the skill

The dodge is a locomotor skill that involves a high degree of balance and stability. It is an extension of the side gallop and sprint run and incorporates dynamic, fluid and coordinated movement to change direction. It is common to many playground games and activities and is an important skill in the majority of team sports.

View 'The Get Skilled Get Active - Dodge video' to support the explicit teaching of the dodge.

Model the skill:

Model the dodge to students while explaining the movements needed to effectively dodge.

Look straight ahead.
Use the outside of your foot.
Lower body height down and then up when changing direction.
Use your knees to change direction.
Use only one step to change direction.
Lower body height and transfer body weight.

Guided practice with immediate teacher feedback:

Students:

spread out and perform the demonstrated components of the dodge.
run freely around the area and on the command ‘change’ push off the outside foot to change direction.
run forward and change direction quickly.
run sideways and change direction quickly.

Skill development games

FMS focus activity - Zigzag chase

Equipment: A large playing area

How to play: Students sprint around the outside of a circle, dodging in and out of line markers.

Students form a large circle.
Each student is given a number: one, two or three.
Teacher calls “On your marks …. set….” and then one of the numbers.
Students with this number sprint around the outside of the circle in an anticlockwise direction, dodge in and out of line markers and then move back to their starting place.
Students can only overtake other runners by dodging them on the outside.
Players not running should jog on the spot and not interfere with the runners as they go by.
Repeat until all students have had several turns at performing the dodge.

FMS consolidation activity - Hoop hop

Skill Focus: Hop

Equipment: Hoops

How to play: Players hop between hoops before forming a group.

Place ten hoops randomly in a designated area.
Students hop inside the area between the hoops until the teacher calls a number.
The students then hop to a hoop.
When they are in the hoop students form a group of the size called by the teacher.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Jailbird

Skill focus: Run, dodge and teamwork.

Equipment: 6 balls, marker cones to define large playing area, 2 sets of bibs or sashes

How to play: Players run into the opposing team’s half to retrieve a ball and return it to their scoreline. If tagged in the opposition’s half, players must go to ‘jail’ and wait to be rescued by team-mates. The team who collects all six balls or has the most balls on their scoreline when ‘Time!’ is called, is declared the winner. Play in teams of eight or more.

Teams start in their half of the playing area.
Three balls are placed behind each team’s scoreline.
Players run into the opposing team’s half in an attempt to retrieve a ball.
If successful in retrieving a ball, the player runs back to place the ball on their scoreline (players with a ball can’t be tagged).
If a player is tagged in the opposition’s half, they must go to jail.
A player can be rescued from jail with a ‘high five’ from a team-mate. Once released from jail, both players must walk back to their own half around the outside of the area, before rejoining the game.
The winning team is the one who collects all six balls or has the most balls when ‘Time!’ is called