Dover-Sherborn Middle School

Curriculum Road Maps

 

                                

Course Title:                 Physical Education                                Grade:  6,7,8               

 

Unit:                 Net/Wall Sports- Tennis and Badminton                                                          

Month Presented:         Tennis-September/Badminton- January and February       

 

Unit Length (in weeks):             Tennis- 4 weeks/ Badminton- 4 weeks 

 

Essential Question (s):

  • How fit is healthy for someone your age?
  • What knowledge, skills and behaviors are essential to successful participation in fitness-oriented lifelong activities?

 

Learning Objectives:

  • Use combinations of manipulative, locomotor, and non-locomotor skills to develop movement sequences and patterns, both individually and with others.
  • Demonstrate developmentally appropriate basic manipulative and advanced specialized physical skills, including throwing and catching different objects with both accuracy and force, hand and foot dribbling while preventing an opponent from challenging, and accurate striking proficiency.
  • Participate in activities that promote physical fitness, decrease sedentary lifestyle, and relieve mental and emotional tension.
  • Apply advanced movement concepts and beginning game strategies to guide and improve individual and team performance.
  • Demonstrate strategies for inclusion of all students in physical activity settings related to strength and speed.
  • Demonstrate competency in many movement forms and proficiency in a few movement forms.  NASPE Standard 1
  • Applies movement concepts and principles to the learning and development of motor skills.  NASPE Standard 2
  • Exhibits a physically active lifestyle.  NASPE Standard 3
  • Demonstrates responsible personal and social behavior in physical activity settings.  NASPE Standard 5
  • Demonstrates understanding and respect for differences among people in physical activity settings.  NASPE Standard 6
  • Understands that physical activity provides the opportunity for enjoyment, challenge, self-expression, and social interaction.  NASPE Standard 7

 

Skills:

  • Fine motor skills
  • Gross motor skills
  • Hand-eye coordination
  • Bi-lateral coordination
  • Communication
  • Cooperation
  • Visual coordination
  • Balance
  • Agility
  • Quickness
  • Forehand
  • Backhand
  • Serving
  • Scoring

 

Instructional Strategies and Activities:

  • Work stations
  • Contests
  • Teacher demonstration- raquet grip, shot selection, scoring
  • Game play- singles and doubles

 

Materials Utilized:

  • Raquets- short and regular
  • Balls- nerf and regular
  • Birdies- slow and regular speed
  • Balloons
  • Nets
  • Poles
  • Skittles

 

Assessment Strategies:

  • Skills checklist with rubric
  • Written assessment- general knowledge
  • Ladder tournament- 2 divisions