Physical Education Program

Kicking and Punting

Dribbling around Stationary Objects

Lesson 3

 

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1. Objectives (Specific, Behavioral, Assessable)

A. Student: 

1. By the end of the class, students will be able to dribble around cones in a weaving pattern over 30 ft distance.

a.   “Ball on Body”, the students will keep the ball within a couple feet of their body.

b.      “Pillow Feet”, the students will make soft touches on the ball when dribbling it.

c.       “Eyes Up”, students will attempt to keep their eyes up and not look at the ball that often.

2. Students will demonstrate proper knowledge of the cues taught by verbally reciting them and demonstrating them at the end of class.

 

B. Teacher:

1. Teacher will establish management protocols of boundaries, signals, and the use of equipment.

                         

2.      Instant Activity:

“The Soft Feet Dance” Everyone is issued a rubber foursquare ball. On the command of go, they are to begin dribbling the ball as slow as they can in general space. After a minute passes stop the students and have them dribble the ball as softly off their feet as they can, while at the same time pretending to be ballerina dancers and the ball is an egg. Who can be the most creative in their dance step to dribble the ball? (The goal is to set them up for your emphasis on having soft feet when you dribble.)

 

3.  Set Induction:

How many of you girls and boys have played soccer before? If you were playing against another team, how would you want to dribble the ball? Would you want to dribble in a straight line down the field? NO! You dribble in all sorts of different directions. You dribble around defenders, avoiding them in order to get to where you want to go. Well today we are going to be practicing dribbling around objects, much like the players in the video did.

 

4.  Content Development -- see next attached page

 

5.  Closure/Assessment:

 

Have the students stand in front of you and ask the class, “Can anyone tell me by raising their hand and waiting to be called on, what is one of the three cues we learned today?” Do this for all three cues, having all the students demonstrate them as they say them.

- What is our cue for keeping the ball close to us? Yes, Ball on body. Lets all demonstrate this.

- What is our cue for light touches? Yes, pillow feet. Lets all demonstrate pillow feet.

- What is one of the challenges I gave you to work on to get better at dribbling? Yes, “Eyes Up” You can practice this in a dark room or   

   out on an open field by closing your eyes.

 

6.  Equipment: (for a class of 30 students)

1.      30 soccer balls

2.      30 rubber playground balls

3.      8 jump ropes

4.      35 cones (or stationary objects)

5.      4 Hula hoops

6.      4 sheets of paper with a number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, or 7 on them. Taped to seven of the 35 cones.

 

7. Protocol

·         “Stop” = Stop whatever you are doing, put hands on hips and face the teacher

·         “Grapes” = Bring it in to the teacher, gather around and listen.

·         “Go” = Begin the task previously described.

 

8. Class Rules:

- Be respectful of everyone at all times

- Follow instructions

- Be enthusiastic

- Don’t wear your own shoes (Put yourself in other peoples’, the idea of considering how someone else might feel and showing deference to them.)

Content Development*

 

MAF/Instructional technique

Extensions

Refinements

Applications

·         Make 7 lines with five cones in each line. The line should stretch about 30 ft long, with the cones spaced evenly between.

·         Students should get into groups of 4 with two groups having five.

·         Teacher picks groups so skill is spread out evenly. Do so by having students line up in straight line, number off from 1-7.

·         Two hula-hoops contain the soccer balls, two others contain the playground balls.

 

 

 

Informing Task: When I say go, Get into your groups, ones with ones, two with twos, threes with threes, and fours with fours. Go to the cone row with your number on it. Go

Informing Task: When I say go, each person needs to get a soccer ball and return with the rest of their group to their cone row, go.

Informing Task: When I say go, the first person in the line will begin to dribble through the cones in a weaving pattern. Once that person gets to the third cone, the next person goes. While you are waiting to go, be doing toe touches with your ball. Once everyone is through, go back down again. (Toe touches is standing in place and doing high knees, repeatedly bringing down one foot then the other to touch the top of the ball.)

 

 

 

1. You must now use both feet when you dribble, when you dribble left can use the inside of your right foot or the outside or top of it. When you dribble right you can use the top or inside or outside of you right foot. (Demonstrate this for the students.)

Stop: Make sure that you are using “pillow feet” in your dribbling of the ball. Use soft touches to dribble the ball, as if your feet were pillows. Go

 

See if everyone in your group can get all the way through the line without touching any cones or knocking them over.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. Now you may only use the opposite foot you normally use. So if you are right footed, use your left only.

Stop: Try to keep the ball within a couple of feet from your body as you are dribbling the soccer ball, the closer the better. This will make it harder for you to lose control of the ball. This cue is called “Ball on Body” Lets see if we can do this. Go

Now see how fast you can go through the line while remaining under control of the ball, ball on body.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Stop: If you are finding that the task is too easy than try to not look at the ball as much while you are dribbling it. We all want to get to a point where we are keeping our “Eyes Up” when we dribble. Practice this in your group if you want to. Go.

Pick your favorite number, see if you can get that many touches on the ball while dribbling through the cones.

Stop individual groups that seem to be having high levels of success and have them stagger their cones five feet away from what would be the center of their cone line. Have them dribble around the cones. 

 

 

 

Informing Task: When I say go, begin dribbling your soccer balls around each cone, traveling down the cone line as you were before. Remember to wait for the person to get to the third cone first. Do ball touches while you wait. Go

Have everyone stop and stand by their cones, and stagger their cones five feet apart like the other groups have already done.

3. Stop: You must now use both feet when you dribble, when you dribble left can use the inside of your right foot or the outside or top of it. When you dribble right you can use the top or inside or outside of you right foot. Go

Remember to keep the “Ball on Body” within constant reach of your legs.

See how close you can cut on the cones without knocking them over or disturbing them, make sharp cuts.

 

 

 

4. Stop: Now you may only use the opposite foot you normally use. So if you are right footed, use your left only. Go.

 

Remember to be making soft touches on the ball by using your pillow feet. This will help you be able to keep the ball closer to you.

 

 

See how close you can keep the ball to your body as you dribble around the cones, see how many times you can contact the ball in a row keeping it within two feet of you.

 

 

5. Stop: Return to using both of your feet to dribble the ball. Go

Remember to continue to try to keep you eyes up and off the ball. We need to see defenders and objects down the field; we can’t do this if we are staring at the ball. Keep working on it!

See if your whole group can make it down and back without losing control of the ball.

 

Informing Task: When I say go, you need to walk quickly over to the jump ropes and grab one and bring it back to the cone that you stood

                           on before. Go

Have the students lay their jump ropes out lengthwise. One end should touch their cone; the other should point away from the center of the cone line. The jump rope should form a straight line.

 

 

 

Informing Task: When I say go, begin dribbling around the cones like you were before, now you must dribble around something much wider this

                           time. Remember to be waiting for the person in front of you to get to the 3rd cone. Go

 

 

 

6. Stop: You must now use both feet when you dribble, when you dribble left can use the inside of your right foot or the outside or top of it. When you dribble right you can use the top or inside or outside of you right foot. Go

Remember to keep the “Ball on Body” within constant reach of your legs. We don’t want any defender to be able to take the ball away from us.

 

How fast can your group get down and back while staying under control, three minutes? Four?

 

 

7. Stop: Now you may only use the opposite foot you normally use. So if you are right footed, use your left only. Go.

 

Remember to be making soft touches on the ball by using your pillow feet. This will help you be able to keep the ball closer to you. The key to being good at dribbling is making soft touches with those pillow feet.

Try to see how many jump ropes and cones you can go around in a row without touching them.

 

8. Stop: Return to using both of your feet to dribble the ball. Go

 

Remember to continue to try to keep you eyes up and off the ball. If this is too much for you than keep focusing on pillow feet and ball on body.

See if you can you catch up to the person in front of you.

Closure/Assessment

All of you did a great job today in class, even if you still feel awkward dribbling the soccer ball, hang in there. I want you girls and boys to tell me the three things that we learned in regard to dribbling around objects today. Lets demonstrate them as we recite them.

1.      Pillow Feet: Make soft touches on the ball

2.      Ball on Body: Keep the ball close to you as you dribble, within a couple of feet.

3.      Eyes Up: Keep your head up and be looking downfield to where you need to dribble.

Practice these skills at home if you feel that you are struggling with them.

Created by Matthew McDowell, CWU PETE

Program, Winter, 2003

Taught by Tiffanee Shaeffer

Corrected by Levi Teasley