Pickleball Lesson Plan 2 - Tuesday

EQUIPMENT:

  • 1 paddle per student
  • 1 Pickleball  per student
  • 1 Badminton/Pickleball court per 4 students
  • Music and equipment for Mini Challenge Course

OUTCOMES: 

The student will:

  1. Participate in Help Me Tag during the Introductory demonstrating cooperative skills and following the rules established by the instructor.
  2. Participate in Mini-Challenge Course during Fitness to improve strength, flexibility, and cardiovascular respiratory and muscular endurance.
  3. Demonstrate striking the pickleball to a partner using form demonstrated by the instructor.
  4. Demonstrate serving the ball on the court using form demonstrated by the instructor.
  5. Participate in Bouncing Ball Relay demonstrating the skill of balancing the pickleball on a paddle while locomoting.

NATIONAL STANDARDS: 1-5

Help Me Tag

INSTRUCTIONS:

Start with four or five taggers in a large area. Three or four students hold a rubber chicken as a safe area. Three students can be touching a chicken at one time. The chicken must be passed on before 30 seconds or the holder becomes a tagger. Students can yell, “Help me,” for a chicken when they are about to be tagged.

TEACHING HINTS:

Encourage students to run under control.

Students must manage themselves to make this game work. They must get rid of the chicken quickly or assume the role of being a tagger.

Mini Challenge Course

INSTRUCTIONS:

Start lying face down
Run around 2 chairs.
Run and hurdle over 3 benches.
High jump over bar.
Crab walk the length of the mat feet first.
Agility run around 3 chairs.
Forward roll the length of the mats.
Vault over a jumping box.

TEACHING HINTS:

Set up course with space between stations. Students do each station and then jog, skip, or run to the next station.

Music makes the challenge course more enjoyable.

Partner passing:

  • Rally ball to partner continuously allowing ball to bounce on ground before returning 4 ft apart.
  • Increase distance.
  • Rally ball without a bounce 4 ft apart.
  • Increase distance.

Serving:

  • Use underhand forehand stroke.
  • Do not bounce the ball first.
  • Contact ball at or below the waist.
  • Serve diagonally cross-court clearing the non-volley zone.

 

TEACHING HINTS:

Use Toe-to-Toe to make partners.

Scattered formation facing partner.

 

 


Assign courts.
4 people per court.

The Server must keep both feet behind the baseline during the serve with at least one foot on the court surface at the time the ball is hit.

Bouncing Ball Relay Race

INSTRUCTIONS:

Run from one end of the relay area to the end and back while hitting the ball up and down on the paddle.

Pass paddle and ball to next person.

Sit when all in group have completed the relay race.

TEACHING HINTS:

Use Whistle Mixer to make relay lines of 5 – 6.

INSTRUCTIONS:

What muscles were used today during the lesson?

What was the most challenging part of class today?

Explain serving rules of Pickleball.

What was the most challenging part of the relay race?

Cheer: We Love Pickleball.

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