Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education

Make teaching easier and more effective with Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education! This cookbook-style guide contains more than 150 ready-to-use lesson plans--enough for every day of the school year.

These classroom-tested lessons with developmentally appropriate activities enable middle school, junior high school, and high school physical educators to greatly reduce their planning time. Undergraduate students in professional practice will also benefit--reduced planning time means they can concentrate on refining their teaching skills.

You'll find four sections in Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education: physical fitness, major sports, minor sports and activities, and single-day lessons.

The fitness unit gives you a progression of lessons designed to improve cardiorespiratory endurance, muscular strength and endurance, and flexibility. It includes protocols for AAHPERD's Physical Best and the Prudential Fitnessgram youth fitness tests. These 12 lessons can be used as a several-week unit emphasizing fitness or can be used periodically throughout the year to maintain an ongoing commitment to fitness.

The major sports units include traditional activities: badminton, basketball, dance, flag football, soccer, softball, tennis, and volleyball. For each you'll find 10 or 11 developmentally appropriate lessons that progress from beginning to more advanced skills.

The minor units include more innovative activities: bowling, floor hockey, golf, jumping rope, orienteering, pickle-ball, speedball, team handball, and ultimate frisbee. Four to seven lessons for each unit give students a solid introduction to each sport or activity.

The single-day activities include 18 lessons perfect for rainy days or as breaks between the major and minor units. Fun and challenging activities such as bocce ball, cricket, tinikling, and folk dances give students a change of pace and a brief look at alternative physical activities.

Each lesson includes information on

• the purpose of the lesson,

• equipment and facilities needed,

• appropriate warm-ups,

• skill cues for students,

• teaching cues (where appropriate),

• main activities, and

• closure.

All the activities in Quality Lesson Plans for Secondary Physical Education are designed to maximize students' time on task and cut down on waiting. All have been tested in actual programs to ensure that they'll work well as is--no extra planning time needed! And the wide range of activities helps keep students interested and motivated throughout the school year. Even veteran teachers will find many new activities and ideas that they can put to use immediately. Use your valuable time for teaching instead of planning! Let the ready-made lessons in this indispensable reference help you make the most of your physical education classes--both you and your students will enjoy it.

Dorothy B. Zakrajsek, PhD, is the director and a professor in the School of Health, Physical Education, and Recreation at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio. Her broad background gives her a wealth of experience in secondary physical education: teaching junior and senior high school physical education, teaching physical education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, supervising more than 200 physical education student teachers, and conducting field-based research in secondary school physical education.

Dr. Zakrajsek is the coauthor of Individualizing Physical Education: Criterion Materials, as well as 5 other books and more than 60 scholarly journal articles. She is a member of the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD) and led the committee that wrote the Idaho state curriculum for secondary physical education.

Lois A. Carnes, MEd, is a physical education teacher at Lewis School in Solon, Ohio. A physical educator since 1971, Carnes has taught at the elementary through undergraduate levels. She coauthored Individualizing Physical Education with Dr. Zakrajsek. Carnes frequently presents in-service programs on innovative pedagogical strategies and trends in physical education for school districts and teacher conferences.

Carnes is a member of AAHPERD; the Ohio Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (OAHPERD), which she has served as a section chairperson; and a member of Phi Delta Kappa research organization. She was selected Teacher of the Year in 1987 by the Solon City Schools and was awarded the Golden Apple Achiever Award by Ashland Oil in both 1990 and 1991 for superior teaching.

Frank E. Pettigrew, Jr., PhD, is the assistant dean in the School of Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance at Kent State University, where he was previously coordinator of the sport pedagogy graduate program. Since 1972 he has taught physical education at every level and gained extensive experience teaching activities in junior high and high school settings.

Dr. Pettigrew is a fellow of the AAHPERD research consortium and a member of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development. He also is a member of OAHPERD, for which he served as vice president in 1989.