Week #2: Lacrosse Lesson Plan 6 - Monday

EQUIPMENT:

  • Cones for obstacle course for fitness, goals, & field area
  • 1 Lacrosse stick and ball per student
  • Music for Continuity Exercises Fitness
  • 1 Jump rope per student
  • Colored pinnies for teams
  • Cones to mark goal areas around the field
  • Goalie masks/softball catcher’s mask and chest protection

OUTCOMES: 

The student will:

  1. Demonstrate agility, quickness and cooperation while participating in the Running Weave Drill during Fitness.
  2. Demonstrate goaltending skills during the Lesson Focus using skills demonstrated by the instructor.
  3. Demonstrate dodging skills during the Lesson Focus using skills demonstrated by the instructor.
  4. Participate in the Cradling Relays demonstrating cradling, quickness, safety and cooperation during the Game portion of class.

 

NATIONAL STANDARDS: 1 – 5

Running Weave Drill

INSTRUCTIONS:

Students run through the maze of obstacles with a regular running stride. Once students learn the maze rearrange the obstacles to create a new challenge.

TEACHING HINTS:

Use Whistle Mixer to create groups of 5.
Set up one obstacle course for each group using cones, spots, and small hurdles.
Use different locomotor movements to challenge students such as a shuffle step, carioca step or skipping.

 

Continuity Exercises

INSTRUCTIONS:

  • Rope jumping—forward / 25 seconds
  • Double Crab Kick / 30 seconds
  • Rope jumping—backward / 25 seconds
  • Knee Touch Curl-Up / 30 seconds
  • Jump and turn body / 25 seconds
  • Push-Ups / 30 seconds
  • Rocker Step / 25 seconds
  • Bend and Twist / 30 seconds
  • Swing -Step forward / 25 seconds
  • Side Flex / 30 seconds
  • Free jumping / 25 seconds

Relax and stretch for a short time.

TEACHING HINTS:

Use music segments (25 seconds) alternated with silence segments (30 seconds). When the music is playing, students jump rope; when silence occurs, students do a flexibility and strength development exercise.

Exercises can be done in two-count fashion. Exercises are done when the leader says “Ready.” The class answers “One-two” and performs a repetition.

Allow students to adjust the workload to their level. This implies resting if the rope jumping is too strenuous.

INSTRUCTIONS:

Goaltending
Explain the role of the goalie.
Demonstrate using short shuffle steps in an arc 3’ from the goal mouth.

Use Task Sheet #6 – Shooting towards Goal
Explain and demonstrate skill
Explain use of Task Sheet to practice skill

Dodging While Holding Ball
Demonstrate dodging skills

Rules

TEACHING HINTS:
Goalie is to stop the ball from making a goal.
Goalie moves in an arc about 3’ from the goal mouth to decrease the shooting angle for the offensive player.


Make groups of 4 for Task Sheet work.
Identify students as Doer, Observer, Hoop Holder, Retriever.
Have Task Sheets on clip boards with pencils.
Identify area at which students will practice.


Use Back-to-Back to create groups of 2.
Use 1 ball per two students.
Practice Dodging and evading partner.

Explain rules of game and give handout to study for exam.

Cradling Relays

INSTRUCTIONS:

  1. Cradle the ball with speed to the cone and back: then next person goes.
  2. Cradle the ball in and out of the cones and back to the line, then the next person goes.
  3. Cradle the ball to cone; leave the ball at cone and run back. The next person runs to cone, scoops up the ball, and cradles it back and so on. First line done wins.

TEACHING HINTS:

Whistle mixer to create groups of 5

INSTRUCTIONS:

What is the difference between the men’s and the women’s lacrosse games?
Describe the role of the goalie.
Describe two important aspects of Goaltending.
Repeat two rules of the Lacrosse game.

Cheer : 2,4,6,8 Passing with Teammates is Great!

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