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🏃 8th Grade · PES2.M5Unit 2: Invasion games

Defending space

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🎯 Objective: Students defend using positioning.

Lesson outline

  1. Drills.
  2. Play.
  3. Reflect.
  4. Exit: one cue.

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

S2.M5

SHAPE America National PE Standards (grade band 6–8)

🏁 Unit goals

  • Apply offensive and defensive tactics
  • Show sportsmanship

✅ 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

⏲️ Stopwatch👥 Team generator⚡ Capy Live class quiz

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More lessons in “Invasion games”

  1. Creating space
  2. Defending space
  3. Transition
  4. Tournament

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