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🏃 3rd Grade · PES1.E24Unit 3: Net & wall games

Striking with paddles

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🎯 Objective: Students strike a ball with a paddle forehand.

Lesson outline

  1. Cues.
  2. Self-hits.
  3. Partner rally.
  4. Exit: count rallies.

Lesson 1 of 3 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.E24

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Strike with paddles and hands
  • Volley over a net

✅ 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 “Net & wall games”

  1. Striking with paddles
  2. Volleying
  3. Net games

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