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Track and Field UnitPlans

Number of days: 20 (M -F)
Date: 2-12-07 through 3-02-07
Grade level (8&9)

Materials needed for indoor instruction
High jump standards
Cross bar
Landing pit
6 hurdles
2 Indoor shot put
2 discuses
6 batons
6 sets of starting blocks
2 stopwatches
100 meter measuring tape
Floor markings for the shot put and discus throw
Floor markings for long and triple jump
Floor markings for relay exchange zones

Materials needed for outdoor instruction
400-meter track
High jump landing pads
6 starting blocks
Long and triple jump landing pits
Shot put and discus throwing areas
3 shot puts and 3 discuses
6 Batons for relay exchanges
Stopwatches
100 meter tape measures

Unit Objectives

1. Psychomotor:
   1. 1. Students will be able to demonstrate the basic coordination needed to affect the skills involved in the event that they are participating.
   2. 2.Students will be able to demonstrate the basic footwork and proper balance needed to insure success during a competition.
   3. 3.Students will demonstrate the necessary upper and lower body movements involved in the positioning of ones body during each individual event in which they compete.
2. Cognitive:
   1. 1.Students will show perceptive behavior in the course of the meet.
   2. 2.Studentswill demonstrate a spatial awareness during the event in which they are participating.
   3. 3.Students will display proper judgment involving the opponents and his teammates.
   4. 4. Students will display proper awareness of the track, the field event areas and the contestants as they participate.
3. Affective:
   1. 1.Sportsmanship during and after the meet
   2. 2. Students will display the proper attitude toward teammates, opponents and officials
   3. 3.Students will develop respect for the sport and its rules
   4. 4. Students will develop an appreciation for the sport of track.
4. Scope and Sequence
   INSIDE FIELD EVENTS
   1. Day 1 HIGH JUMP
      The landing pit
      The cross bar
      The rules and etiquette of the event
      The approach steps and the last 5 steps & the plant foot
      Body positioning & orienting before and after the take off
      Elevating the center of body mass above the cross bar
      The landing
      Begin jumping with out a cross bar (watch for last 5 steps
      And plant foot)
   2. Day 2 Introduce long and triple jump steps
      Explain & demonstrate how to establish a starting mark on the runway
      Explain and demonstrate how each jump is measured
      Explain and demonstrate how to exit the landing pit
      Explain & demonstrate the proper foot placement and body position when jumping
      Triple jumping steps
      Review high jump
      Split class into two groups and allow them to practice the two events
   3. Day 3 hurdles
      Explain & demonstrate the proper foot placement and body position when jumping
      Rules pertaining to the event
      Steps to the first hurdle and the # of steps between the hurdles
   4. Day 4 running events starting blocks
      Rules pertaining to running events
   5. Day 5 relays baton exchanges
      Rules pertaining to relays and exchanges of the baton
   6. Day 6 Practice 3 chosen events rotating as if you were participating in a track meet
   7. Day 7 Practice 3 chosen events rotating as if you were participating in a track meet
   8. Day 8 Practice 3 chosen events rotating as if you were participating in a track meet
   9. Day 9 Practice 3 chosen events rotating as if you were participating in a track meet
   10. Day 10 introduce the shot & discus
       Rules of the events
   11. Day 11 continue shot and discus
   12. Day 12 student again pick three events and participate as if in a track meet
   13. Day 13 Students pick three events and participate as if in a Track meet
   14. Day 14 Review rules, etiquette in classroom
       Final Assessment Piece
5. Visual assessment of the students as they participate in each event to determine their abilities in achieving the unit objectives.
6. Written test will access their knowledge of the rules and regulations of each event