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🏃 1st Grade · PES1.E16Unit 3: Throwing, catching & kicking

Catching

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🎯 Objective: Students catch with hands, not body.

Lesson outline

  1. Scarf catching.
  2. Self-toss.
  3. Partner.
  4. Exit: catch 5 in a row.

Lesson 2 of 4 in this unit. In the Lesson Planner this lesson takes 1–3 class periods depending on your timetable: day 1 introduce & model, then practice, small-group reteach and a quick check.

📐 Standard

S1.E16

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band K–2)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Toss and catch
  • Kick a stationary ball
  • Dribble with hands

✅ Check for understanding

End with the exit ticket in the outline. Sort answers into got it / almost / not yet and start the next lesson with a 5-minute reteach for the “not yets”.

Practice & resources on Thinkabara

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More lessons in “Throwing, catching & kicking”

  1. Underhand toss
  2. Catching
  3. Kicking
  4. Dribbling

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