KS4 · Physical education · Year 10
Australian football league: tactics, strategies and game play
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Your learning goal
I can develop offensive and defensive plays within a team to play a simplified version of Aussie Rules football.
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Australian football league: tactics, strategies and game play: slides adapted from the imported teaching text; recall questions created from its keywords, learning points and common mistakes. Self-check practice, with no automatic grading or XP. Answers stay on this page and are cleared when you leave.
What you’ll learn
I can develop offensive and defensive plays within a team to play a simplified version of Aussie Rules football.
Key learning points
- Move: holding hands up in a wide Y shape and shuffling side to side during zonal defence helps cover more ground.
- Move: sprinting away from your defender into open space creates clear passing options to maintain possession.
- Think: the oval field has defenders, midfielders and forwards, similar to football.
- Feel: confidence comes from visualising and experimenting with ways to create gaps in the field to attack.
- Connect: defenders communicate and shift together to prevent any gaps forming.
Words to know
- zonal defence
- when players defend the space instead of marking an opponent directly
- behind
- a score worth one point, awarded when the ball is kicked between the behind post and the goal post or if the ball hits a goal post.
- goal
- a score worth six points, achieved when the ball is kicked between the two taller, central goal posts without being touched.
Common mistakes
Pupils just stick with one payer on the opposite team and chase them.
The game moves too fast to just stick with 1 player, so it is better to work with teammates to create zonal defence.
For parents, carers and teachers
- This lesson could be expanded further by adding in contact and tackling rather than tagging, dependent on expereince of the players.