Teaching Points:
Tactic
- Quick footwork to base position
- Quick movement to ensure being square to target and being set early
- Sending accurate accurate passes to target
Skill
- Athletic position (feet shoulder width apart and keep low)
- Square to target
- Accurate overhead passes
Game diagram
- Divide students into groups of four
- Each group will have three cones and three balls
- The cones will be set up in a line about six feet apart and a tosser will stand with a ball in front of each cone about ten feet away
- As shown in the diagram - the passer will weave through the cones but will be making an overhead pass from each one
- Tossers will toss a ball towards the base position at each cone prior to the passer arriving there
- The passer will make the overhead pass back to the tosser who tossed it and move to the next cone
- Once the passer has made a pass from each cone the group rotates one spot as shown in the diagram
- Passers receive a point every time they make an accurate pass back to the tosser so they are able to catch it
- Each person will go through three times and count all there points - they will compare points within their groups
- This can be modified depending on numbers by increasing the number of tossers within each group
Guided discovery questions:
Q: How were you able to make consistent accurate passes back to the tossers?
A: By using quick footwork to get set before the tosses arrived.
