Subject/Grade: Grade 8 Physical Education Lesson/Date: Gaga Ball Time: 49 Minutes

Stage 1: Desired Results

Lesson Students will learn to focus on performing their manipulative skills of striking the ball by
Overview: participating in Gaga Ball. Students will play Elephant Soccer and Elimination Gagaball with
teams. Students will also focus on improving their skill of space awareness by dodging the
balls or predicting where the ball will go and students will work on their cooperation by
working together to get students out in Gagaball. Engagement will be increased by doing
Gagalympics
GLOs: Students will:
● General Outcome A
o Students will acquire skills through a variety of developmentally appropriate
movement activities
● General Outcome C
o Students will positively work together and/or with each other
SLOs: Students will:
● A8-5: demonstrate ways to receive, retain and send an object with varying speeds,
accuracy and distance in skills specific to an activity.
● A8-6: select, combine and perform manipulative skills by using elements of space
awareness, effort and relationships, with and without objects, to improve performance
● C8-5: recommend practices that contribute to teamwork
Lesson Students will:
Objectives
● demonstrate their manipulative skills of striking the ball in Gaga Ball

● perform manipulative skills by using their spacial awareness of trying to dodge the ball and
ensuring that they know where the ball is or where it might go

Stage 2: Assessment Evidence

Assessment
● Participation

● Observation

Stage 3: Learning Experience

Prior to Safety: ● When whistle is blown, stop and
● 1-4 Large Gator skin balls
Lesson: listen
● Gaga Ball Pit ● No kicking the ball
● When you are sitting out, don’t
● Fake Medals lean or sit on the boards
● Remind students to be aware and
● Speaker/Music be careful of balls
● Talk about the boundaries
Time: Content/Description Differentiation/
Assessments:
Introduction:
3
● Get students to sit in front of me while I take attendance
minutes Pre-assessment (FA)
Subject/Grade: Grade 8 Physical Education Lesson/Date: Gaga Ball Time: 49 Minutes
● Ensure that the Gaga Ball Pit is safe and secure

● After attendance, explain to students that we will be focusing on

two activities, which will be Elephant Soccer and
Elimination/Gagalympics
● Give students a heads up to think of a country they want to
represent
Transition: Get everyone to sit down or pay attention
Body:
10 Learning Activity 1: Elephant Soccer
● Demonstration
minutes
● Basic Rules: of how to do
o Players will make a circle and have their feet together the activity
having a space in between their legs will help
o Goal is to try striking the ball in between other players legs Visual
o Players will start by using both hand clasped to act as a Learners
trunk of an elephant ● Observation
o If the ball goes between their legs they put one hand behind
will allow
their back
teacher to
o The second time it goes under their leg, they turn around so
provide
that the back is toward the centre, but they may use both feedback to
hands again. The third time it happens they are eliminated students
or they will be turned into a “Blackhole”, where if the ball
goes in between their legs, the person that striked it will ● Allowing
lose a life Peers to do
o The person that is a black hole can not strike the ball demonstration
● Separate the class to have 2-3 circles will allow
them to feel
● Start with 1 ball, then increase as time goes more at ease
knowing that
they can also
perform the
skills
● Assess their
striking form
and how well
they aim it.
Assess their
participation
and how much
effort they put
in
Transition: Bring everyone back by blowing the whistle
30 Learning Activity 2: Gagalympics
● Demonstration
minutes
● Explain to everyone that we will be doing Gagalympics, which is of how to do
just a variation of an elimination game, but we’re making it more the activity
fun will help
Subject/Grade: Grade 8 Physical Education Lesson/Date: Gaga Ball Time: 49 Minutes
Visual
● Get students into groups of 4-5. Get their country that they want to
Learners
represent
● Allowing
● Basic Elimination game rules, when a person gets hit with the ball
Peers to do
they are out for good demonstration
● Number of balls will increase as time goes will allow
them to feel
● Get all the students to get in line and stand before the stage to do more at ease
an announcement of names and what countries they are knowing that
they can also
● When their name is called with their country, they will enter the perform the
pit. Encourage students to cheer. Make sure there is music. The skills
Chicago Bull entrance song is encouraged ● Observation
● This could take a while, but it'll make kids feel included by having will allow
their name announced teacher to
provide
● Student can work together with their team countries to eliminate feedback to
other competitors students
● However, if the last 3 people are from the same country, they have ● Assess how
to eliminate each other despite being in the same team students are
● Once everyone is in the pit, show students the medals working
together and if
● Once every student is ready, throw the ball in the pit and make they are
working
students yell “GA, GA, BALL”. Students have to touch the barrier
together as a
first. once everyone has yelled “BALL”, students can go get the
team
ball
● Increase ball as time passes by and add more than “one” touch if its
slow
● Once you get the top 3 and the winner, do a closing ceremony.
Play the Olympic Closing Ceremony song while handing out the
medals
● Basic Rules:

o Tag someone with the ball by striking the ball and

DIRECTLY hitting the opponent’s foot, lower leg or knee.

o Once hit, you are down/out. If playing in a single large

area, remain down until the person who hit you is out, then
you are back in play (“revenge” style). If you are not sure
who hit you, select someone at random. If you are playing
in a multi-game location and you are knocked out, move to
the other game location (pit).

o If struck between the knee and hip, no one is out. However,

if struck above the hip, then the “striker” is out…this is to
Subject/Grade: Grade 8 Physical Education Lesson/Date: Gaga Ball Time: 49 Minutes

encourage the ball to be played down low.

o Decide whether you wish to play with 2 contacts allowed or

1 (a block is considered a contact). I suggest starting with 2
and then reducing.

o Exemption rule = a “wall hit”…if the ball has been

contacted (example a block), a student can take the ball and
instead of going after an opponent, hit the wall with the ball
and that frees up / allows the player to now have a “hit”
towards and opponent.

o Students should be cautioned about maintaining a low

follow through on their hits to prevent physical contact with
others. The ball is never dribbled, picked up, or held.

o Watch for allegiances getting out of hand in targeting

specific individuals on a constant basis.

o If using the pits, do not allow students to lean or sit on the

boards.

Transition: Get everyone to sit down and pay attention

Consolidation:
2 Review of Key Concepts/Point to Next Class:
minutes
● Get the students to help clean up

● Cool down: Breathing

● Thank the students

● Remind them that it will be Thrilling Thursday next class

Stage 4: Reflection
March 8, 2023
Today’s lesson went amazing! Set the expectations early and set the teams really quick at the beginning. Kids
were having fun and were very engaged. There was another student that took a long time in the bathroom, I
need to keep an eye on it for next class. Classroom management was also good