Teacher Names: Nae Sanders

Lesson Title: Hot Potato Basketball Tag

Date of teaching: 02/23/2018

Grade Level: K-5

Physical Education Standards/Outcomes:

- Students can:

- Standing in place, dribble a ball five times with one’s dominant hand. (1.2a)

- Throw a ball while stepping forward in opposition. (1.2b)

- Throw a ball with an underhand and overhand motion. (1.2d)

- Distinguish between a jog and a run, a hop and a jump, and a gallop and a slide.

(1.3a)

Academic Content or Health Content Standards/Outcomes:

- Students Can:
- Demonstrate effective listening skills. (3.1c)
- Cooperate and share with others. (3.1e)

Equipment Requirements:

- Basketballs
- Music

Learning Tasks (time allotment):

- Begin by showing students how to properly throw a ball to their partner.
- Have students practice running and jogging so they understand the difference
between them
- Explain the rules of the activity to the students.
- You will be numbered off into partners and the person who is number two will
grab a basketball for the two of you.
- Once you have your ball, the person who is number one will begin dribbling the
ball five times with their dominant hand and the two of you will switch until I say
 to stop. (Each person should go about two times)
- Once the music starts, you will practice throwing the ball to one another. You
may throw it three ways: Stepping forward in opposition, underhand, or
overhand.
- When the music stops, the person with the ball in their hand is “it”
- They will chase students who does not have a ball while dribbling the ball in an
attempt to tag them.
- If you are being chased, you may only jog, gallop, or slide. You may not run.
- If you are tagged then you are now “it”
- Continue this until you hear the music start again.
- Once the music starts, find someone with a ball and continue throwing the ball
to one another.

Resources consulted:
- PECentral.org
- cde.state.co.us