KS2 · Physical education · Year 4
Shooting and how to create shooting opportunities
Invasion games: maintaining possession and stopping an attack through basketball
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Your learning goal
I can shoot using the correct technique and use my passing and dribbling skills to create an attack that results in a shooting opportunity.
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Shooting and how to create shooting opportunities: 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 shoot using the correct technique and use my passing and dribbling skills to create an attack that results in a shooting opportunity.
Key learning points
- Move: when trying to outwit an opponent, we combine our passing and dribbling skills to create an attack on goal.
- Move: to shoot, hold the ball in one hand, the other supporting, elbow up, pushing with your legs, extending the arm.
- Think: carefully selecting when and where to shoot, pass or dribble in a game helps improve our performance.
- Feel: striving to improve our shooting even when we are struggling to score demonstrates self-motivation.
- Connect: encouragement and cooperation are important when working as a team to improve our performances in games.
Words to know
- game
- an activity or sport in which people compete with each other according to agreed rules
- attack
- trying to score points or goals
- evaluate
- to assess the quality of our performance
Common mistakes
Pupils believe that they only need to use their arms when shooting.
Explain to pupils that shooting effectively involves the whole body, paticularly the legs that give us more power. Coordinated body movement will be more successful than just arm strength.
For parents, carers and teachers
- If basketball nets are limited, use alternative targets that allow pupils to practise the technique. Ensure to rotate pupils so they all get use of the correct target. 'BEEF' (balance, eyes, elbow, follow-through) is a good acronym for the pupils to remember shooting technique.