Victoria Claflin

ED 461
Final
Activity: Keep-It-Up
Focus: 3rd grade
Time: 20 minutes
Materials:

One ball for every 4-5 students

Timer

National (NASPE) Standards:

PE Standard 1: The physically literate individual demonstrates competency in a variety of motor
skills and movement patterns.
PE Standard 2: The physically literate individual applies knowledge of concepts, principles,
strategies, and tactics related to movement and performance.
PE Standard 4: The physically literate individual exhibits responsible personal and social
behavior that respects self and others.
State Content Standards:
PE.03.EE.02 Demonstrate critical elements in manipulative skills: throw, catch, kick, and strike.
PE.03.SM.01 Identify rules, procedures, and etiquette in a specified physical activity.
Program Characteristics from Chapter 6:

Program Characteristic 2: Skill and Fitness Improvement

Program Characteristic 5: Maximization of Active Learning Time
Program Characteristic 6: Indirect Competition and Cooperation
Program Characteristic 7: Inclusion of Many Movement Forms
Selection of Instructional Strategy:
I will use a cooperative learning strategy for this lesson. There will be instructions given for the
warm-up and lesson but the students will need to work together to accomplish the lesson.
Objectives:

Students will be able to volley the ball overhand and underhand to a classmate.
Students will be able to respect others space by having a personal awareness and not
running into others.

Modifications:

Students who do not feel comfortable volleying with the group can do it with a partner.
Softer and or bigger balls can be substituted for the regular ball.

Lesson:
Open (5-7 minutes):
Warm-up Activity:

Have the students run two laps around the gym and then line up, so that everyone can go
at once, on a line on the gym floor to do locomotor movements called out by me. (Skip,

hop, gallop, leap, slide, and/or jump)

As a whole class review the underhand and overhand volley skills with the students. Say:
Who can show me how to volley underhand? Who can show me how to volley

overhand?
Explain to the students that they are going to be practicing underhand and overhand
volley skills in small groups and that the goal is to try to keep the ball in the air without it
touching the ground or going out of control.

Body (10 minutes):

Split the students into groups of 4-5 players. Say: Get into groups of 4- 5 people. or
Count out students to make groups if you know the students have trouble getting into

groups.
Have the students form separate circles with everyone in their group facing each other.

Say: Stand in a circle facing everyone in your group.

Safety: Have the students make sure that there is enough room between them and the
other groups and that there is enough room between them and their teammates so they
dont hit someone else on accident. Say: Make sure you are aware of yourself and

surroundings and are not going to run into anyone.

Have the group volley the ball to each other around the circle using underhand and

overhand volley skills.

Have the students count how many times they can volley the ball without the ball going
out of control or hitting the ground before the timer goes off.

Set the timer for 5 minutes. After the timer goes off have the students do it for another 5
minutes. Say: I am going to set the timer for 5 minutes. (When the timer goes off)

Lets try another 5 minutes.

To increase the difficulty have each player call out the name of the person they are going

to volley the ball to. This makes it so that their volleys need to be more precise.
Assessment can be done by watching the students in their groups to see if they have a
grasp of the concepts and strategies.

Close (3-5 minutes):

Debrief the activity by asking the students what they noticed went well and what did not
go well. Say: Who can tell me something that went well in this activity? Who can tell
me something that did not go well in this activity? Give feedback on what you saw that
went well or did not.

Rationale:
I decided on the activity of Keep-It-Up because it is a great way to get children to move
around and work as a team. The activity helps to develop volleyball setting skills. It also helps to
develop coordination in children.
The activity helps students to develop underhand and overhand volleyball setting skills
because the students will learn what happens to the ball as they hit it in the different manners.
Students will also develop hand-eye coordination because they have to be watching the ball and
figure out when to hit it so that it doesnt touch the ground. Students will also have to be spatially
aware of their surroundings so that they do not run into each other or hit anyone with the ball.

This is a great team building activity because they have to talk to and be aware of what their
teammates are doing to be successful in keeping the ball up.