| Curriculum Level of This Unit = FIVE | Underlying Concepts |
The educational aims of the unit are:
- To introduce students to the skills, strategies and rules of the game of korfball
- To engage students in meaningful games of korfball that embrace the philosophy of the sport and allow students to develop social and cooperative skills in a team environment.
- To introduce students to the historical social and cultural context of korfball.
- Allow opportunities for students to investigate why people may choose to play particular sports or not and identify reasons for this.
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 Reflection on factors that influence peoples choices relating to health and physical activity.
  Developing personal skills that improve wellbeing through physical activity.
 Experiencing constructive challenge and competition.
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Key Specific Learning Outcomes
The student should be able to: | Curriculum Achievement Objectives | Key Competencies |
- Develop the basic range of Korfball skills and apply this into game situations with a basic understanding of the rules and strategies of Korfball.
- Understand the social and cultural reasons why people chose to play different sports.
- Demonstrate interpersonal skills to the level where they can effectively and meaningfully contribute to a Korfball team.
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- 5 B1 – Movement Skills
- 5 B4 – Social and Cultural Factors
- 5 C3 – Interpersonal Skills
| Relating to Others:
Korfball develops skills, knowledge, attitudes and values related to working with others in a team environment.
Belonging:
Involvement in a korfball team means participating and contributing enhancing a sense of belonging to the class.
Using Knowledge and Information:
Giving students opportunity to reflect and use information to make judgements about the reasons why people chose to participate in different physical activities.
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Assessment For Learning Opportunities:
- Students will be able to keep track of coaching feedback and feed-forward throughout the unit via their ‘Hot Tips’ workbook.
- Students will rate their progress towards being a competent korfball player using their ‘Hot Tips’ workbook.
- Teachers may use information gained throughout the unit using observation and the ‘Hot Tips’ workbook to make judgements on the students’ progress towards the competent standard.
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Assessment Standard (What is expected of a student to achieve the standard at this level.)
5B1 – Movement Skills
A student will be a competent korfball player at this level when they can:
- Pass and catch successfully and efficiently
- Shoot long shots and running-in shots with a reasonable level of success.
- Use movement skills such a V-cuts and veering off to make space.
- Track a player in a one on one defensive situation.
5B4 – Social and Cultural Factors
A student will demonstrate understanding of social and cultural reasons why people chose to play different sports when they:
- Are able to identify personal factors that affect their own choices, e.g. motivation, enjoyment, body shape, fitness levels, injuries, disabilities, cultural background, level of wealth and what they know about.
- Are able to identify other factors that affect their own choices, e.g. Parents, friends, extended family, where they live, what is on TV, what society values.
5C3 – Interpersonal Skills
A student will demonstrate interpersonal skills to the level where they can effectively and meaningfully contribute to a korfball team when they:
- Are involved fully in the game and working hard for their team.
- Communicating with team mates and responding to attack opportunities created by them.
- Using team mates to help attack the korf, i.e. pass and cut running in shots.
- Contributing to team defence by calling to team-mates to indicate opponents’ attacking options.
- Giving positive encouragement to team-mates.
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Lets Play Korfball
Introduction
Handheld friendly