Skill Themes and Student Abilities:
The day
continued at St. Mary’s Elementary school with the next class period involving
the 2nd grade students. A new unit of Lacrosse was introduced by Mr.
Mack. The students focused on the skill theme of catching and/or collecting in
this particular unit. The opportunity to be a part of this lesson gave me some
new insight on ideas I could create in my own lesson planning moving forward.
Students began the class with a simple warm-up jogging 4 laps around the
gymnasium, jumping jacks and push-ups.
Beginning
the lesson, Mr. Mack went over the importance of the student’s responsibility
when holding a lacrosse stick. The teacher made sure all students were aware of
their surroundings. The number one rule for students was they were not allowed
at anytime to strike another student with a stick. Moving forward the first
skill approached was the ability for a student to pick up a ground ball with a
lacrosse stick. The cues to perform a successful ground ball scoop were knees bent;
knuckles close to the ground and shovel snow. A lead-up game was organized
called GB (groundball) Frenzy to help the students practice their ground ball
pickups.
The class
was divided into two teams and both teams were placed on their own end line of
the gymnasium. The teams starting at their own end lines would run to the
center of the gymnasium where a puddle of balls would be scattered across the
floor for them to pick up using the ground ball technique. They were only
allowed to pick up one ball at a time and bring it back to their side’s end
line. Each end line had a barrel in the middle where the balls were to be
collected. The students who collected the most balls using the proper technique
won the round. Mr. Mack and I counted the balls at the end of each round. No
matter what the results were for either side we made it so that each team won a
round. 
After
observing and assisting this particular lesson plan, I found that the
preparation and organization of the lesson was a great success. There is little
I would change in the structure of the lesson. If I was to change anything it
would be more individual congruent feedback during practice. Also, establishing
intra-task variation for students that I observed having problems picking up
groundballs. In order to establish these strategies more practice time and
progression tasks could have been organized before the lead-up game. This would
create opportunity for a higher success rate.
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