Underhand Volleyball Serve

Audience: Seventh Grade Boys and Girls

Group Size: 30

Time: 1 Hour

Equipment: Flip Chart, Screen, Projector

Setting: Gymnasium

Unit Objectives: The students will learn the rules and skills needed to play volleyball.

Lesson Objectives: Learn the Underhand Volleyball Serve

EXAMPLE BELOW
5 min.	Objective Warm up, Stretching Plyometrics	Today we are going to… (Show objective as a visual) Learn how to execute the underhand volleyball serve	Watch and Listen To this video demonstration	Focus activity (i.e., 1,2,3, eyes on me OR handclap) Students will watch this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv1mA1s8p9Y
3 min.	Identification of learning product.	By the end of today’s lesson, you will produce, know, be able to… Underhand serve a volleyball	Listen And Watch As I model the correct way to execute the serve.	Check for understanding To check for understanding I will have students stand and demonstrate the movement for executing the underhand volleyball serve.
5 min.	Link to prior knowledge Transfer skills learned in the game of Spud or Bowling to the underhand serve.	In order to better understand this, I want you to think back to something we talked about yesterday… The bowling motion	Think-pair-share Pair up with another student and practice the serve with them.	Listening, observing, Redirecting as needed. Keep track of time to switch partners and keep lesson moving. I will move around the gym to offer guidance and advice for students practicing the serve.
1 min.	Transition	This changes depending upon established class structure such as, lights on and off, a bell…	Refocusing	Make sure everyone is on board Redirecting as needed.
15 min.	Place value (concept to be learned)	Teacher has determined how to present the info—direct instruction, constructivist lesson…	Listening Showing what they know Interacting with both the content and each other Writing Drawing	Checking for understanding strategies Redirecting as needed.  Keeping notes on learners’ progress and where additional support/ differentiation is needed. Bright colored balls and beeper balls can be used for students with visual or hearing disabilities, the nets can be lowered and the serve lines can be moved closer for students as well.