Created by Tony Ledenko

Cricket is a team sport for two teams of eleven players each. A formal game of cricket can last anything from an afternoon to several days.

Although the game play and rules are very different, the basic concept of cricket is similar to that of baseball. Teams bat in successive innings and attempt to score runs, while the opposing team fields and attempts to bring an end to the batting team's innings. After each team has batted an equal number of innings (either one or two, depending on conditions chosen before the game), the team with the most runs wins.

Cricket Outcome Goal:
The National Association for Sport and Physical Education in their Outcomes Project defines what a physically educated person should know, demonstrate, and apply by participating in a physical education program.  NASPE categorizes sample, grade-specific competencies they call benchmarks. Applying these standards help teachers assess and evaluate their students' progression in becoming physically educated

Skill Development:
As a result from regular participation in a quality physical education program, the wide variety of movement concepts that children experience in cricket can be categorized and implemented, further into the secondary curriculum.  My middle school cricket unit will allow my students to incorporate basic motor skills; further along, each progression will become more complex as all students become competent in the previous taught lesson. By the end the cricket unit, my students will have knowledge of  psychomotor themes, cognitive themes, and affective social themes, relating all to a number of specific learning outcomes

Sample Task Card:
All students will be asked to perform various tasks at the conclusion of the unit.  The cricket unit task card will maintain a variety of skill outcomes that each student must perform; they will be checked off when the task is performed adequately.

Safety Guidelines/Equipment:
Safety should be an important priority during class instruction; both students and the instructor should be aware of  class rules and must be knowledgeable on how to use all equipment.  Teachers should implement and stress these safety guidelines to all students prior to instruction, before the beginning of the first daily lesson plan.

Assessment:
Criteria for assessment will include:
1.  One selective response test (15 percent)
2.  Two performance tests ( 30 percent total)
3.  Attendance (15 percent)
4.  Active participation (40 percent)

Grading Criteria:

A     100-95 A-      94-90 B+     89-87 B       86-84 B-      83-80 C+     79-77

C     76-74  C-    73-70  D+   69-67 D     66-64 D-    63-60 F     59-...................................................................

Block Plan:
An overview of each daily lesson plan; the block plan will include instructions of each cricket unit outcome, and is accustomed to change, based on the student's competencies in all learned subjects.

Scope and Sequence:
Cricket incorporates training techniques that help develop strength, eye hand coordination, flexibility, agility, overall fitness, and self-confidence.  The scope and sequence includes skills, which  have been divided into cricket batting, cricket bowling, cricket ball grips, and cricket ball lengths.

Developmental Analysis:
The developmental Analysis provides the student with information related to the definitions, cues and various techniques for the game of cricket..