Title – Four Steps to a Successful Overhand Throw

By – Jason Moody

Primary Subject – Health / Physical Education

Grade Level – K-5

Standards Addressed:

SC Standards – 1,2,5,6,7

General Goal(s):

The student will demonstrate a correct overhand throw.

Objectives:

Observe the steps to a good throw:

1. Side to Target

2. Weight on back foot with arm in a “Lazy L” shape

3. Transfer weight to front food with good step and waist rotation (

keep arm back

)

4. Follow through

Required Materials:

• milk crates,
• tennis balls (
  
  5+ per student is best
  
  ),
• table/bleachers (
  
  anything that the crate can stand on and get knocked off of
  
  )

Activity:

It is important to require the students to throw hard to get the correct form. To do this, you need an activity that requires less accuracy and more power.

Step-By-Step Procedures to Activity:

• Divide the class into equal teams of 3-5 students.
• In relay form, have the students face a milk crate.
• Each person in the front of the line throws a tennis ball as hard as possible at the crate to knock if off the table. Set the students about 5-20 feet away (
  
  5 feet for Kindergarten, 20 feet for 5th graders
  
  ).
• Each time a crate is knocked off the table, have the student that knocked it off set it back up and record a point on a board. The student can retrieve any ball that is scattered on the gym floor or get a new one if the ball they threw did not return to them. This keeps students away from the other throwers.

Conclusion:

The students love this simple game. It is easy to set up, and the students throw hard and get plenty of throws.

Assessment:

Teacher Observation (

check sheet with four keys to successful throw

)

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Jason Moody

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