Movement exploration - Week 4

Stage 1 - Phase one

FMS focus: Dodge

Equipment

Beanbags
Marker Cones
Hula Hoops
Balls
Chalk or tape

Download the Movement exploration games - Week 4 activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

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:

Revise the components of the 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:

Find a line on a court or mark out a line at least ten metres long. Place markers either side of the straight line every two metres. Students dodge off and onto the line. They run along the line and lower their body when they step out to the marker and push off and back to the centre line. Use the teaching cues ‘look straight ahead’, ’use the outside of your foot’, ’lower your body height down and then up when changing direction’, ‘use only one step to change direction’ and ‘lower body height’ and ‘transfer body weight’.

Independent practice with immediate teacher feedback:

Set up an obstacle course for students to practise the dodge by using it to change direction around the course. Some ideas for the course include:

dodging off and on a line
zigzagging around markers
dodging in between poles or trees

Skill development games

FMS Focus Activity - Here, where, there

Skill Focus: Dodge

Equipment: Markers to set out 25 x 25m playing area.

How to play: Students run around the area and change direction by dodging.

On the teacher’s signal, one of three directions will be given:
- Here – run to a point near the teacher.
- Where – run to another designated point.
- There – run in the direction where the teacher points.

Here, Where, There - Fast Starts Activity Card

FMS consolidation activity - Half-moon hop

Skill Focus: Hop

Equipment: Chalk or tape, beanbags

How to play: Players throw a beanbag into each square before hopping out to retrieve them.

Students form groups of three and have a beanbag each.
Students toss the beanbag into the first square, then hop into the square, pick up the beanbag, and hop out.
On their next turn students should toss their beanbag into the second square.
Students then hop into the first square, then into the second square, pick up their beanbag, and then hop into the first square and out.
Students continue in this way, up and back each time.
In squares 4 and 5 and 8 and 9 students should land with both feet on the ground at the same time.

Modified small-sided games

It's game time!

Teams play each other in the game outlined below.

Dodge the ball

Skill focus: Dodge

Equipment: Balls, cones to mark playing area

How to play: Players are divided into 2 teams separated by a ‘no-go’ barrier. The ball is rolled across the barrier. Students dodge to avoid being hit by the ball.

Use a basketball court or mark out an area with a centre line.
Students are divided into two teams and each team is given three balls.
When the whistle is blown, students roll the balls into the other team’s area trying to hit the other team below the knees.
Students should use the dodge to avoid the balls.
If students are hit by a ball they run around the outside of the area once and then move back onto the court.