Dorseyville Middle School
Physical Education

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Physical Education incorporates team sports from basketball to volleyball; individual activities including gymnastics, dance, and track and field; and lifetime fitness activities such as pickleball and golf.

Activities are developmentally appropriate to the level of the learners. Emphasis is placed on fitness awareness, motor skill development, safety techniques, group cooperation, sportsmanship, responsibility, and respect.


 

Students are working to refine skills in lifetime activities such as badminton, pickleball, and one wall handball. These units are activities in which both the young and old can participate.

Badminton is being played as doubles and in a tournament formation.


 

One wall handball is a game very similar to racquetball but without the racquets. Students use techniques, strategies, and teamwork to earn points.


 

Pickleball is a miniaturized game of tennis with similar rules. The game was created in 1965 by three men from Seattle, Washington as a sport for the entire family to play.


 

Students work to develop dribbling, passing, receiving, and shooting skills in various drills and game situations. Also, students are working to improve their knowledge of the rules and terminology of the game.

Golf is a unit where students work on grip on the golf club, stance, addressing the golf ball, and swing techniques. Also, students will learn about par for courses, number of clubs in a golf bag, scoring terminology, and etiquette. The unit comes to a conclusion with an modified eight hole par 3 golf course around the school property.


 

Students work on lifting with the proper techniques, spotting classmates, and learning the various muscles involved in specific lifts. 

In the table tennis unit, students learn how to perform various hits such as backhand and forehand as well as serves. They will use these skills in a challenge tournament toward the end of the unit.


 
The decathlon is a unit where students practice and compete in activities such as long jump, discus, hurdles, relay race, shot put, triple jump, and high jump. 

 

In the volleyball unit, students make progressions with their skills and will use a variety of types of balls. For example, sixth grade students may use beach balls at the beginning to help develop skills. The slower moving ball enables students to get prepared for the hit, and it allows for better rallies in games.

The Fox Fitness Report was created to display individual fitness levels in the areas of cardiovascular strength and endurance, muscular strength and endurance, agility, speed, and flexibility. Students are able to compare their fitness scores from one year to the next with the copy of the report they receive each year.


 

Students participate in various tests such as curl ups, push ups, mile run, sit and reach, flex arm hang, and pull ups to determine their fitness levels.


 

Prior to the start of class, students work on preparing their muscles to take on the events planned for the class. Students learn proper stretching techniques and anatomically correct names for various muscles involved in the stretches. 

In the flag football unit, students work to refine skills such as throwing, catching, running pass patterns, identifying player position, and participation in games.


Students enjoy participating in the basketball unit where they not only learn the basics of how to play the game but ball handling and shooting skills.

Students in the rhythmic gymnastics unit use balls, clubs, hula hoops, and ribbons to create a routine.  Each routine is performed in front of the class.


 

Overall, the Physical Education teachers hope our students have an enjoyable and safe time in class. We hope our students will learn the value and importance of daily exercise as a method to stay healthy: mind, body, and spirit.

 

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Author: M. Bailey