Duration Knowledge & Understanding
: Content
Week 1
1
 participate in a variety of movement
activities to demonstrate and enhance
body control, body awareness, object
manipulation, anticipation and timing
– participate in movement activities
that demonstrate and reinforce
the transfer of skills across
different movement contexts M
 evaluate and justify reasons for
decisions and actions when solving
movement challenges (ACPMP087)
– identify strategies and tactics that
are similar and transferable across
different movement contexts M
– explain how changes to movement
concepts, skills and tactics can
improve performance I M
Teaching and Learning Strategies
Introduction: The teacher will introduce the
topic of game sense and briefly discuss its key
components and how those componets will be
explored throughout the unit. Introduce the
sport for week 1, which will be Oztag. The
teacher will inform students of the assessment
at the end of the unit in week 5.
Activity 1: Bullrush Oztag. The objective of
this game for the attacking team is to make
it from one end of the field to the other,
without being tagged by the defender. The
objective for the defensive team is to
remove the tag from the attacking players,
before they make it to the safe zone at the
other end of the field. The game will begin
with approximately 25 attacking players
and 5 defending players. If a defensive
player, removes a tag off the attacker, that
student will then join the defensive team.
Focus Questions:
Attacking players:
Qn: What strategies did you use to evade
the defenders?
Qn: Why did you use these strategies and
were the effective?
Qn: What was the aim of the game for the
attacking team?
Qn: Why did the game become harder for
the attacking team as the game
progressed?
Qn: What made you decide on when/where
to run?

Defending players:

Qn: What was the objective for the

defending team?

Qn: Why did the game become easier for

the defending players?

Qn: What strategies did you use?

Differentiation:

Field dimensions: Making field wider or

more narrow to vary difficulty

Attackers holding the football: For higher

ability classes they can perform activity
with football in their hands

2 x tags used and not 1: Easier for the

defending team to tag attacking players

Change the original ratio of attack vs

defence

Activity 2: Three on Two: The objective for

the attacking team is to score a try, whilst
the objective of the defensive team is to
shut down the play/prevent the try. The
game is intentionally based around the
attacking team having the advantage and
develops decision making and problem
solving for both the attacking and defensive
teams. Students will use ipads to film their
game. Footage will be used for analysis in
the next lesson.
 Questions:

Qn: What team had the advantage and

why?

Qn: How did you create/restrict space?

Qn: What did you base your attacking and

defensive decision making around?

Qn: How close to the defender did you get

prior to passing?

Qn: Why would an actual game be more

balanced between attack and defence?

Differentiation:

Field dimensions: Bigger or smaller to cater

for different skill levels

Direction of passing: Allowing forward

passes for novice players.

Ratio of attackers vs defenders: Make it

easier or harder to score.

Amount of points available/preventing tries

Activity 3:

End Zone:

The objective of this game is to move the ball up

the field and passing to a team member in the
specific scoring zone (the end zone). Students
will be working on tactical awareness, creating
and identifying space, as well as working on
their passing and catching. Generally, the game
has several rules, how many of which are
implemented will be dependent upon the
understanding and skills of students.

Questions:

Attacking Team:

Qn: What tactics were most effective in scoring

a goal?

Qn: What type of passes were most effective?

Qn: Why is it easier to score a goal in the end

zone as opposed to a try in Rugby?

Qn: When was the best time to pass?

Qn: What tactics did you use to create space?

Qn: What strategies did you use to maintain

possession?

Defending Team:

Qn: How can you reduce an opponent’s

‘decision making’ time?

Qn: What defensive tactics did you use?

Qn: Were they effective?

Differentiation:

Field dimensions, attacking vs defending ratios,

enforcing time limits allowed with the ball while
attacking, allowing players to run/move with the
ball, minimum number of passes required
before a goal can be scored, modified point
systems, using different types of balls e.g softer,
bigger.

Debrief/recap:

Questioning:

Qn: In Rugby what is the aim for the

attacking/defending team?

Qn: What were some strategies that we used

today to evade defenders/score a try?

Qn: Why is decision making important for

attacking and defensive teams?

Qn: Did most games today favour the attacking

or defending team? Why?