Movement skills/concepts

Controlling a small ball with a long implement (hockey stick), space awareness (pathways and direction), and different speeds.

Set-up

• Hockey sticks, small balls, markers.
• Children are freely spaced in a defined grass or hard area, each with a hockey stick and ball.

Activity

• move the ball with your stick and keep it close to you while standing still/ walking/jogging
• stop the ball and then continue
• change direction
• dribble along a line
• change speed without stopping
• dribble in circles, squares, zigzags, etc
• stop and turn in different ways

Variations

Dribbling pathways: Set out cones in different shapes, (e.g. triangle, circle, zigzag), dribble in a given direction, forward, reverse, in, and out of the cones.

Vary speed: On a signal, change speed.

Vary equipment: Carry out above activities with hand/foot dribbling.