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Lesson 1: Volleyball Skills

I teach the volleyball skills by having myself or a student demonstrate the skills for setting, passing and serving. This has worked out fine in the past, but I was really excited to find video clips on all the different skills including spiking. I linked the skills from the [|www.volleyball.com] website to my notebook pages.

Results: I was ready to show the lesson, but did not realize that the video clips were from You-Tube. You-Tube was blocked for me to use so the video clips did not load. I was not able to show these to my students. I know that this will be an awesome way to visually teach the skills once teachers are allowed to access You-Tube for educational purposes.



Lesson 2: Volleyball 3 on 3

Every year I play a 3 on 3 Volleyball Tournament in my PE classes for grades 1-5. I verbally go over the rotation, Challengers side, King and Queen's Court and the court boundries. There is a lot of information to absorb because the rally goes very fast and then their team has to rotate. I am hoping that the visual aid of the notebook lesson will help the students better understand how the game is played.

Results: I am very pleased to say that the students are really getting the hang of the game. The visual diagrams of the 3 on 3 and how to rotate is making the game run a lot smoother. Yea!



Lesson 3: Volleyball Rules

I again verbally go over the rules and try to demonstrate touching the net, etc. However, after 22 classes of repeating this information I sometimes omit one here and there to speed things up. Some of the students understand the rules, but many others do not and then there are disargeements over a play or rule. I am hoping this lesson will improve their knowledge of the game.

Result: The students are just starting to play so I have not witnessed the results yet. However, when I did the lesson there were a lot of questions about rules or situations that were disagreements in the past. So I am very hopeful that after talking about these in class through the use of this lesson that disagreements will be limited.



Lesson 4: Heart Rate I have the students count their pulse after our warm-up jog to see if they are aerobic burning fat calories or anaerobic burning carbohydrates.

Results: I did this lesson with the 5K classes and they just loved the timer in the lesson. It was a great way to go over how to take your heart rate and then practice as many times as we needed. :)