Teacher: Mike DeCecco

School: IN-Tech

Date: 10/22/14
Grade: 9-12

Number of students: 15-20

Time: 12:04-12:49

Lesson Focus: Flag football (Offensive strategies with some defense and flag grabbing)
Equipment: 10 footballs, 20 cones, 20 flag belts
Play space needed: Outside area in the grass

Objectives:
Learning Domains
Psychomotor

Psychomotor

Psychomotor
Cognitive

Psychomotor and Cognitive

Objectives
Students will be able to throw and
catch a football using ear to
pocket technique and the correct
positioning of hands when
receiving.
Students will be able to perform
the correct techniques in taking a
flag off of an opponents waist
when running towards him/her.
Students will be able to avoid the
defense with a spin move.
Students will be able to list
teaching cues for player to
player/zone defense.
Students will be able to

NYS Standards
1A

1A

1A
1A
2B
1A

understand and demonstrate at

least one of the plays on the
handout.

2B

Key Academic Language: Ear to pocket, make triangle with hands when receiving, step into throw, man
defense, ready position, zone defense, flag grabbing
NYS Learning Standards/ National Standards: This lesson contributes to students becoming competent in
motor skills of throwing and catching, cognitive understanding of pass patterns and offensive strategies
and social responsibility of working with others.
Adaptions/Modifications/Challenges: Using different size footballs, running shorter routes, using warm
defense if its too hard for some of the students.
Safety: Students will avoid others while traveling in general space. Students will only throw the ball during
the activities and will hold the ball when activity is over. Students will be aware of the limited space that
they are in and not run around freely into other groups.
Brick Words: Pass Patterns, ear to pocket, man/zone defense, triangle with hands, pinkies together, thumbs
together, stepping in opposition, shift, QB, center, receiver, jukes, follow through
Mortar Words: Analyze the player during peer assessment, creating a pass play during 5 v 5,
demonstrating the pass pattern, identifying what defense the team is in, explaining the correct route
Syntax: This is being used when the students are talking to one another. They are using the structure of
sentences to create conversation. This is showed when the students are doing the peer assessment or
when they are playing the game and making plays. They are using words in a correct order that makes
sense and easy to understand.

Discourse: This is used when the teacher/students give feedback to one another and use flag football
related terms such as ear to pocket or talking about the pass patterns. Its a creative way to talk related to
the content area.
Students are communicating their learning by analyzing a specific student and telling them what they were
doing right and wrong. They are using specific terms related to flag football so those students know the
correct terminology and cues. When they are doing an activity the students will be mentioning what play
to run, what defense the other team is in, what player they are covering, and are possibly even using hand
signals to communicate during gameplay.
Sources of information:
Graham, G., Holt/Hale, S.A., & Parker, M. (2013). Children Moving: A reflective approach to teaching
physical education. 481-489. 9th ed. New York: McGraw-Hill.
PeCentral.org
Dr. Laddas offensive plays sheet

Time

Task

Organization

1-2
min

Introduction:
Instructor will go over
what the lesson focus
is (Today we are
going to focus on
offensive plays while
adding in some
defense. Also, going

Students will be asked

to remain quiet gather
around the instructor
so the students can
hear.

Cues

Challenges/Modific
ations

to go over flag
grabbing).
6 min

Peer Assessment:
Throwing and
catching
Students will be in
groups 3. Two
students will be
throwing the football
to each other and the
other student will be
peer assessing.
Students will rotate
so everyone peer
assesses.

8-10
min

Students will be told to

get in groups of 3 and
walk over to the cones
that were placed by
the instructor. One
student on one cone
and the other student
directly across on the
other.
Each group will be
given one ball.

Task 1: 3 v 2 player to Each group will be

player defense
given one ball to use
during the activity
Teacher will instruct
The groups will be
students will get into about 5 yards away
groups of 5 and
from the other groups
perform the pass
so that they dont run
patterns that they
into one another (look
learned in the
at attached sheet).
previous lessons. The There will be 4 cones
pass patterns sheet
set up so the students

Throwing- Ear to pocket

technique. Step with
opposite foot. Follow
through.
Receiving- If ball is
above the waist; make
your hands in shape of a
triangle with thumbs
together. If below waist,
tips of your pinky are
together.

Increase the
distance to make it a
little more
challenging.

Defensive cues:
Stay behind the offense
Ready stance when
lining up
Hands up
Eyes reading the QB and
receivers movements
Jump in front of the
receiver when the ball is
thrown and try to either
knock the ball down with

Use warm defense if

wide receiver has
trouble getting open.
Put a time limit on
getting open.
Make a little
competition out of it
by providing 1 point
for a catch and 1
point for a stop.

8-10
min

will be placed at each

cone for every group.
This time there will
be 2 defenders
playing player to
player defense on the
center who acts as a
receiver and the
receiver himself. So
there will be a QB,
center, receiver on
offense and 2
defenders on
defense. Before doing
this activity instructor
will go over defensive
positioning and
provide a demo so
the students can see
it. Students will rotate
offense and defense.

know where to go to
and each group has
designated space.
Students may look at
the offensive plays
sheets for routes
(square out, square in,
post, corner, slant,
streak, stop and go,
and button hook).
Students will rotate
positions after a couple
of opportunities.

your hands or pick it off

If offensive players tend
to cross one another,
the defense can call out
switch where they
change the players that
they are defending.

Task 2: 5 v 5 with
player/zone defense

Students will keep the

same groups as above
but combine with
another group to make

Working on positioning
of zone defense after
performing man.
Playing a 2-1-2 zone

Instructor will

See if you can

complete 3 passes in
a row.

5 min

demonstrate what
the zone defense
should look like by
showing what area of
the zone each player
should cover (playing
a 2-1-2). The QB will
look at the offensive
plays that are on the
sheet and run 3 plays
then, the offensive
and defensive players
switch positions.

a group of 10. So,

there will be 2 groups
of 10 at each cone.
Five offensive players
and 5 defensive
players for each team.
There will be 2 cones
set up where the
groups will start at.
After activity is over
the teacher will ask
them to walk the ball
over to the bag and
put it away, then
gather around for next
activity.

Eyes reading the

quarterback so players
in the zone can shift
over to spots.

Task 3: Flag Grabbing

activity

Students will be in
groups of 2 and pick
anywhere on the grass
in general space a
couple of yards away
from other groups.

Cues for flag grabbing:

Shorten steps when
approaching player
Athletic position
Square-up the player
Eyes focus on flags
when reaching (may use
one or 2 hands to pull a
flag, whatever works
best)

Students will get a

partner and every
student will have a
flag belt on, which
has 2 flags on each
side of the waist.
Students will try to
get off both flags off

Provide a
competition:
First one to 5 wins.

6 min

their opponent before

they get their flags
grabbed. Once both
flags are off the
opponent then that
player wins. Students
will not be able to run
around it will be done
in self-space.
Instructor will provide
a demonstration of
the activity and list
the cues on how to
flag grab
appropriately.
Task 4: Flag grabbing
game when running
Now, students will be
on opposite ends of
one another and try
to get into the endzone where 2 cones
about 5 yards will be
placed as the
destination. One
player is going to
throw the ball to his
partner and that

No flag guarding (which

means you cant swipe
the other players hand
when he attempts to
grab it)

Students will keep the

same groups as the
previous task, so
groups of 2.
There will be about 810 groups so there will
be around 20 cones, 2
for each group to make
an end-zone.
Switch roles of offense
and defense.

Students must reach

end-zone without
getting flag grabbed
from them.
Stutter steps, jukes,
cutbacks, spin moves to
avoid opponent (change
speed, change
direction).
Throwing cues: ear to
pocket
Step in opposition

1-2
min

player must run with

the ball in the endzone without getting
any of the flags taken
away. The student
who throws the ball
will wait for opponent
to catch it before he
approaches him/her.
Students will perform
jukes and spin moves
to avoid opponent
which the instructor
will teach prior by
providing a demo.
Closure

Follow through

Students will be
brought together and
instructor will ask
questions to assess
learning.

What are some moves to

avoid flag grabbing?
What are some
defensive cues for
player/zone defense?
What are some cues for
flag grabbing?
Who wants to tell me
what route everyone is
running for play number
1 on the handout?

If there was an ELL student located in the activity, I would have someone who he/she is comfortable talking to who
speaks the same language as well as English. This way the ELL student can understand the task at hand and not
have any problems of what to do. Furthermore, there will be demonstrations for each activity including diagrams so

that the students get a clear visual of the activity. Students learn differently and some learn better when they
actually see it.