Elementary Third Year Plan

The focus of my unit plan will be a basketball unit for elementary third grade students. I am introducing this unit plan to this grade level because I want the students to start developing and focusing on their basic motor skills and their manipulative skills. The running, jumping, and hopping that take place in this sport will help the students work on their basic motor skills. The passing of the ball, the dribbling of the ball, and receiving a pass will help the students work on their manipulative skills. The students will also work on shifting their weight balance when they perform movements like a lay-up shot. This sport will help the students begin developing their motor skills for sports that they will be introduced to as time goes by.

They will attain competency in a variety of physical activities and proficiency in a few select complex motor and sports activities. Students will design personal fitness programs to improve cardiorespiratory endurance, flexibility, muscular strength, endurance, and body composition.” Under this elementary NY state standard the performance indicators that students will need to demonstrate when participating in this unit are that they will, participate in physical activities (games, sports, exercises) that provide conditioning for each fitness area, and develop physical fitness skills through regular practice, effort, and perseverance. They will also need to show that they understand the relationship between physical activity and individual well being. According to the NY state intermediate standards, if this unit was to be taught in an intermediate level (middle school) students will have to demonstrate different performance indicators to demonstrate that the lesson is up their educational standards. These students will need to demonstrate that they can combine and integrate fundamental skills and adjust technique based on feedback, including self-assessment. They will also need to develop leadership, problem solving, cooperation, and teamwork by participating

The common core-learning standard used in this unit consists of literacy. According to the third grade literacy standards under key ideas and details, students in the third grade must be provided with literacy work where they can ask and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers. This can easily be provided to students by giving them a handout where each shot in basketball is explained step by step, and also a photo showing proper form of how each shot is supposed to look. This will allow for the students to read the steps necessary to perform each shot, and allow them to see how the shot is set up, and how it is supposed to look. The students will likely ask questions as to why they must set up a shot a certain way. The picture with the steps will them allow them to answer their own questions by showing them the set up. They will be able to answer me when I ask them the steps to certain