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🏃 4th Grade · PES1.E14Unit 4: Striking & fielding

Overhand throw

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🎯 Objective: Students throw overhand with opposition.

Lesson outline

  1. Cues.
  2. Targets.
  3. Partner throw.
  4. Exit: step with which foot?

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.E14

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

🏁 Unit goals

  • Throw overhand, catch and strike with a bat

✅ 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 “Striking & fielding”

  1. Overhand throw
  2. Batting
  3. Fielding games

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