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Cooperative sport

Context
Learning about cooperation and competition in sport through modified volleyball.

Unit aim
To develop constructive attitudes, values, and behaviours to manage cooperative and competitive sporting environments.

General overview

  • Students complete 2/3 spells of teacher directed learning in the skills of Volleyball for modified volleyball (ie overhead pass, forearm pass, and serve).
  • Students work in teams to develop their skills and teamwork strategies for modified volleyball.
  • Student play the games in teams with a focus on inclusion.
  • Students participate in their teams in a tournament of modified volleyball. They are responsible for officiating and scoring teams on a range of cooperative abilities.
  • Key area(s) of learning
    Sports Studies - 2nd bullet, Physical Activity - 2nd and sixth bullets.

    Underlying concepts
    This unit will enable students to develop care and concern for other people (attitudes and values); and recognise the need for mutual care and shared responsibility (socio-ecological perspectives).

     
    AO Learning outcome Learning experiences Assessment opportunities
    4B4 Students will experience and demonstrate ways in which cultural and social practices of sport are expressed through modified sport.

    Students will consider cultural and social practices associated with volleyball. In teams students will develop and demonstrate team chant, uniform, team name, and accept responsibility.
    Students work in teams to develop skills of modified volleyball.

    Students complete peer assessed score sheet (Word) indicating team involvement, team chant, and team uniform.
    5B2 Students will develop social and cooperative skills and responsible attitudes about emotional safety in modified volleyball competition. Students play games of modified volleyball recording levels of encouragement, inclusiveness, and positive sporting behaviour onto peer assessed score sheet. Students complete peer assessed score sheet (Word) indicating levels of encouragement, inclusiveness, and positive sporting behaviour.

    Possible teaching approaches
    Cooperative learning and sport education

     
    Format
    Possible lesson sequence Word (32 k) Pdf (11 k)
    Students worksheets Word (47 k) Pdf (16 k)

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    Underlying concepts
    Teaching approaches
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