HPE Unit Plan

Unit Overview
Unit Title
Exploring Hitting Sports
Unit Summary
The students will be exposed to many hitting sports. This will be in the 5 weeks of PE, students
will play, get to know and explore hitting sports and games; cricket, hockey, badminton,
tennis, squash, table tennis. This will be through individually skill practice, working in
pairs/groups and most of all playing quick fun games. The students will be learning the hitting
skill with different bats and rackets, refining their techniques and hitting method.
Subject Area
Physical Education
Band Standard Year Level Strand
Middle Years 3 6 Physical Activity and Participation
Approximate Time Needed
At least 1 lesson a week; 40 minutes.
Unit Outcomes
Key Ideas Outcome
Students enhance their sense of self and group 3.1 Demonstrates a range of specialised
identity through the development and application of individual and team movement skills that
specialised movement skills in an increasing variety enhance their sense of personal and group
of preference physical activities, individually and in identity.
teams.
Future Learnings and Key Competencies
Identity
Interdependence
KC 2: Communicating ideas and information
KC 4: Working with others and in teams
Student Objectives/Learning Outcomes
Lesson 1: Students are introduced to lots of hitting techniques and hitting equipment. They
learn to use all of the equipment safely.

Lesson 2: Hockey; rules – slide the ball not ‘hit’.

- stick to be kept below the waist
- NO throwing, hitting or jousting with stick
Students will learn the basic rules of hockey and how to use the stick. The students will play 4
Goal Hockey and Sockey.
Lesson 3: Cricket; students will play ‘speed involvement cricket’ in groups of 6 (outside) then
two larger games of inside cricket.

Lesson 4: Squash/Tennis: Students will rotate games playing in many different combinations.

Lesson 5: Students return to one of the sports and use their skills in a practical way through
playing a whole class game.
Curriculum-Framing Questions
Have the students experienced as many sports and skills as
Essential Question possible during the year? Are the students active within all
Physical Education lessons?
Do the students have the ability, skill and knowledge needed
Unit Questions to hit a ball/puck/shuttle in many different sports and
situations?
Lesson 1: Can the students use the hitting equipment properly
and safely.
Lesson 2: Can the students use a hockey stick?
Lesson 3: Do the students have the correct follow through
Content Questions
with the cricket bat?
Lesson 4: Are the students able to hit something in mid air
with a smaller piece of hitting equipment?
Lesson 5:
Assessment Plan
Assessment Timeline

Before project work begins Students work on projects After project work is
and complete tasks completed

• Students will need to have
to know many different hitting
sports.
• Students will need to know
how to basically hit a ball or puck.
• Students will need to know
the rules and guidelines for playing
hitting sports and the obligations
which go with that.
• Observe students ability to hit
with the many different sports.
• Observe students behaviour
when working with others.
• Observe students safety when
using the equipment.
• Students’ assessment;
their ability as a hitter.
• Observation list for
after each lesson on who had
trouble with the hitting.

Assessment Summary
The assessment of students will be completed mostly by observation of the students to see if
they are able to ‘hit’/make contact with the ball/puck/shuttle during the lessons. The students
will also assess how they think they went with hitting.
Unit Details
Prerequisite Skills
Basic hitting.

Instructional Procedures
Lesson 1: A. Tell the students the rules for when I am teaching; what is expected of them,
listening strategies that I will use, class rules and structures.
B. Explain to the students how the equipment is set up and how it is to be used.
C. Show the students the correct way of using all the equipment; how to hold, use,
safety involved and rules for each set of hitting equipment.
D. Students are to work in small groups to use all of the equipment; to practice,
learn the position of hands, body and head and to finally get used to using the equipment.
E. Students will help packing up all the equipment.
F. Students will be given the ‘hitting students resource’ page which will be stuck in
their PE books and filled in sometime during the unit.

Lesson 2: A. Show the students the correct hitting technique for a hockey stick; where the stick
is allowed to lift to, slide not hit, push through the hit.
B. Play ‘4 Goal Hockey’.
C. Split class into 4 teams. Line up in a square. 1 stick,2 cones per team and 1 ball.
D. Give each student a number, to play call number and the winning person gets a
goal.
E. Play game until everyone gets at least 1 turn.
F. Split the teams in half and they play ‘Sockey’ (mini hockey). Winning team to 5.
G. If there is time rotate teams.
H. Pack up.

Lesson 3: A. Show hitting technique for cricket.

B. Groups of 6 play ‘speed involvement cricket’, two batsman, 4 fielders (rotate
bowler). 5 hits each – no one gets out, runs can be counted.
C. Whole class indoor cricket. Class makes up rules. Two teams.

Lesson 4: A. Show the students the techniques of holding the racket (same for squash and
tennis).
B. Explain to the students that everyone will rotate into both games.
C. Students are to work in pairs or groups of four to play games against each other.
D. Students rotate through the courts anti clockwise, every ten or fifteen minutes.
E. No scoring involved.
f. Pack up.

Lesson 5: A. Students are given the opportunity to chose one of the sports they have already
learnt the skills of to play a game.

Accommodations for Differentiated Instruction

 Communication Will explain a second time all instructions
issues

Materials and Resources Required For Unit

Lesson 1: ‘hitting students resource’ enough for the whole class

Printed Materials
Lesson 5: ‘Self-assessment for hitting skills’ 1 per person
Lesson 1: Bats and balls (32 of different kinds)
NEED TO WORK OUT!

Lesson 2:- 4 balls for hockey

- bibs?
- hockey sticks (32)

Equipment
Lesson 3: cricket bats (6)
- balls (6)

Lesson 4: - rackets (tennis & squash, half of each) (32)

- Balls (16) half tennis half squash

Lesson 5: This is depending on the sport the students chose to play.

 Teacher ASSESSMENT

Tick if the students are able to hit correctly. - if the students attempting the hitting. x if student didn’t attempt at all.

Hockey Cricket Tennis Squash Passed

Self-Assessment Rubric for Hitting Skills

NAME:_____________

Practice Needed Good Skills Excellent Skills

Hitting I sometimes don’t hit I hit the ball most of the I always hit the ball, it is
effectively the ball – it is just out time and when I don’t it is an unconscious
of reach. because of concentration movement.
not my ability.
Forward / I have trouble I am able to keep my I can do forward and
backward swinging forehand stance a good deal of the backhand swings very
hitting and backhand. time, even when I am quickly and don’t even
Sometimes my feet switching during the one have to think about it as I
tangle up. game. do it. I am focussed on the
play.
Head up I am always looking I try to keep my head up I am concentrating on the
down at my bat or at and watch the ball, but play and where I am about
the thrower, and once in a while I watch the to go, so my head is
sometimes I miss the bat or the thrower. always up to watch the
ball because I don’t ball.
watch the ball.
Stance I get caught up in I usually remember to I automatically stand
what I want to do and stand correctly when I correctly while I swing, so
forget that I have to swing, but occasionally I I almost never forget. I am
stand correctly. I don’t forget when there’s lots pretty good at holding one
manage to keep one happening. foot on its spot when I
foot on the same spot swing.
while I swing to hit.
 What do I need to remember
about hitting safety?

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What did I learn about hitting?

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How did I go with the hitting games?

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CRICKET