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🏃 3rd Grade · PES2.E3Unit 2: Invasion games: soccer & basketball skills

Strategy: open space

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🎯 Objective: Students move to open space and defend space.

Lesson outline

  1. 3v2 games.
  2. Discuss.
  3. Play.
  4. Exit: what is open space?

Lesson 4 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

S2.E3

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band 3–5)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Dribble, pass and shoot with control
  • Use offensive and defensive strategies

✅ 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

👥 Team generator⏲️ Stopwatch⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Invasion games: soccer & basketball skills”

  1. Dribbling with control
  2. Passing and receiving
  3. Shooting
  4. Strategy: open space

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