Instructional Materials

6th Grade Physical Education: Striking and Fielding

Unit Overview

Grade Level: 6th Grade

Content Area: Striking and Fielding

This unit overview video contains a unit breakdown showing the unit's pacing, student-centered opportunities, leadership opportunities, mastery checks, and DEIJ (diversity, equity, inclusion, justice) lessons with adapted striking and fielding games. The video shows the standards, team roles for the students and the classifications (must do, should do, aspire to do), and some classroom routines.

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Lesson Basics

Grade Level: 6th Grade

Content Area: Striking and Fielding

Lesson Title: Lesson 3: Striking a Ball

Learning Objective: We will demonstrate striking a ball successfully in a game situation AND practice giving feedback.

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Instructional Video

In this lesson, there are three videos. Students are given different roles within a team in my class. The character coach (left), skills coach (bottom left), and team coach (below) all have their own video to watch for their team. The team manager can watch with them for extra support.

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Guided Notes

There are a lot of QR codes in my classroom for the students. They learn how to break down skills (example: what is the upper body doing?) and how to learn games (example: what are the rules?) by watching videos.

Sometimes on a slide, I will ask guided questions (example: how can you score a point in this game?) because the game or skill might be more complicated than we have had before.

Practice Work

After watching the skill instructional video, the skills coach leads the team in a warm-up with the skill of the day and then provides feedback on that skill.

This is also time for the students to work on previous skills if they need more time.

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Mastery Check

This is a unit I do later in the year, so some of these skills I have seen the students master or begin to master. In this unit, the students give each other feedback on the skills shown in the mini-videos or give their teammates a check when they think they have mastered it.

I hang out with the teams and look for their peer checks. If I agree, I’ll highlight it to give it a mastery check on that skill.

Progress Tracker

The progress tracker in this unit lines up with the mastery check sheet given to the skill coach for each team. The students know that each lesson has a different goal (mastery check), and it shows if they are behind, on, or ahead of pace.

On our whiteboard, students will put their initials under one of the categories of pacing to hold themselves and their teammates accountable. This encourages collaboration among the team when they check on each other.

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