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Movement Skills and Tactics

Read each game situation carefully. Use movement skills and smart tactics to help your team. Answer in your own words where asked.

Skill toolkit

Movement skills help you control your body and objects while playing. Agility means changing direction quickly; balance means staying controlled; coordination means body parts work together; object control includes skills such as throwing, catching and striking.

1.Match each movement skill to its best example. Write the skill beside each example: agility, balance, coordination or object control. A. Keep steady while landing from a jump. B. Weave around cones and change direction quickly. C. Track a ball with your eyes and bring your hands together to catch it. D. Send a pass accurately to a teammate.

A. Keep steady while landing from a jump.
B. Weave around cones and change direction quickly.
C. Track a ball with your eyes and bring your hands together to catch it.
D. Send a pass accurately to a teammate.

object control
coordination
balance
agility

2.At a school sports festival, Maia practises a quick slalom between cones. Which skill is she mainly developing, and why?

Make the game plan

Invasion games involve teams moving an object into a scoring area while defending their own. Net/wall games involve sending an object over a net or against a wall so opponents have difficulty returning it.

3.Your touch team has the ball. Two defenders are guarding the player with the ball, while a teammate has moved into open space. What is the most useful attacking decision?

Run straight into both defenders.
Pass to the teammate in open space.
Stop moving and wait for the defenders.
Ask every teammate to crowd around the ball.

4.Choose two useful attacking tactics in an invasion game.

Move into space to offer a passing option.
Support the player with the ball.
All stand close together around the ball.
Ignore teammates and focus only on the ball.

5.In a volleyball-style game, your team receives the ball. What is the main aim when returning it?

Keep it on your side for as long as possible.
Control it and send it over the net so the other team has difficulty returning it.
Carry it around the net.
Pass it only to the same teammate every time.

6.During a net game, describe one defensive position or action that could help your team return the next shot.

7.Explain why staying balanced and ready helps when receiving a fast pass or shot. Include one detail about how your body should be positioned.

Fitness, reflection and next steps

In a fast game, players often repeat short bursts of movement with brief chances to recover. Cardiovascular fitness helps the heart and lungs supply oxygen so a player can keep moving and recover between efforts.

8.A player makes several runs to support teammates during a game. Explain one way cardiovascular fitness could help that player.

9.True or false: In an invasion game, moving without the ball can still help your team. Explain your answer with one example.

10.Plan one practical goal to improve a movement skill or game tactic. Complete the sentence with a specific action and a way to check your progress: “At my next game or practice, I will…”