Week #2: Golf Lesson Plan 9 - Thursday

EQUIPMENT:

  • Putting greens
  • 4 Cones
  • 1 Putter per student
  • Hexagon Hustle signs
  • 1 golf ball per student
  • 1 Clipboard and pencil per 2 students
  • Music for Hexagon Hustle
  • 1 beanbag for each pair of students

 

OUTCOMES: 

The student will:

  1. Understand how reaction time is influenced by your genetic makeup.
  2. Be able to explain fitness is part of a healthy lifestyle.
  3. Perform putting technique using the reciprocal task sheet as demonstrated by the instructor.

 

NATIONAL STANDARDS: 1-5

Quick Hands

INSTRUCTIONS:

Students sit facing a partner with legs crossed or extended. One beanbag is placed on the floor equally between the two partners. The teacher calls out, “Right” or “Left,” and the students try to grab the beanbag with the hand that was called by the teacher. The same activity can be performed from a push-up position or a sit-up position. Partners face each other and quickly try to grab the beanbag with the right or left hand, as called by the teacher.

TEACHING HINTS:

Facing partner in scattered formation.

One beanbag per two students.

Change partners often.

Hexagon Hustle

INSTRUCTIONS:

Tape alternating segments of silence and music to signal duration of exercise. Music segments indicate moving around the hexagon while intervals of silence announce flexibility and strength development activities.

  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Push-Up from Knees / 30 seconds
  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Bend and Twist (8 counts) / 30 seconds
  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Jumping Jacks (4 counts)  / 30 seconds
  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Curl-Ups (2 counts) / 30 seconds
  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Crab Kick (2 counts) 30 seconds
  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Sit and Stretch (8 counts) / 30 seconds
  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Power Jumper / 30 seconds
  • Hustle / 25 seconds
  • Squat Thrust (4 counts) / 30 seconds

TEACHING HINTS:

Outline a large hexagon with six cones. Place signs with locomotor movements on both sides of the cones. Locomotor movements to use are Jogging, skipping, galloping, hopping, jumping, sliding, leaping, and animal movements. Sport movements such as defensive sliding, running backwards, and running and shooting jump shots can also be used. The signs identify the hustle activity students are to perform as they approach a cone.

During the hustle, faster moving students should pass on the outside of the hexagon.

Change directions at times to keep students spaced out properly.

The Achilles tendon is attached to the gastrocnemius and soleus muscles to the calcaneus bone.

Putting Task Sheet #9

INSTRUCTIONS:

Explain Putting Task Sheet #9 and review putting techniques including:

  • Grip
  • Stance
  • Addressing the ball
  • Aiming

Students will putt from different distances and work with a partner. Ask them to read the instructions to follow the steps:

  1. Read the instruction to your partner.
  2. Give your partner verbal feedback on the task.
  3. Change roles upon completion of each task.

TEACHING HINTS:

Scatter formation with a partner.

Change partners from time to time as that will increase the richness of the feedback they receive from different peers.

The slope of the green is called the “break.”

Putting Fun

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Pick a spot to putt from.
  2. Challenge your partner and see who can get the ball into the hole in the least number of putts.
  3. Whoever wins the hole, goes first on the next round of putting.
  4. Repeat

TEACHING HINTS:

With partner on putting carpet/green.

Putting is an opportune time to discuss patience and avoiding frustration.

Review elements involved in proper putting technique.
What muscles were used during Fitness?

Cheer: Golf swings!

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