Lesson Plan For

8th Grade

Title

Training sessions Badminton (1/8)

Aims/Objectives
All students will be able to
Understand safety aspects of badminton and set up the equipment correctly and
efficiently.
Most students will be able to
Understand the importance of a warm-up and cool down and the stages associated
with each
Some students will be able to
Perform the basic forehand grip (shake-hands) and explore different shots

Teaching Styles
Classroom Organization/Activities
Register/Change
Share lesson context and teaching strategies with students, as above.
Warm up and stretches *Re Cap*
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Date

Citizenship/Cross Curricular/Language
Origin/history of game
Safety
Personal hygiene warm up /cool down
Risk Assessment
~ Check hall surface
~ Check benches are placed back.
~ Warm up/Cool down
~ Jewelry/laces/spacing
Timing
10M
1M

Q&A of a warm-up/cool-down = importance of

Stages of each = warm-up, pulse raiser and stretches
Cool down = recovery (light) activity and stretches
~ Groups of 3; line up in groups along length of hall. One shuttle per group.
Person 1 side steps across hall with shuttle and places it opposite his/her group
and side steps back. Person 2 collects it, and then person 3 repeats the first
stage (both side-stepping).
~ Whole body stretches = teacher led. Q&A on knowledge of muscles.

15M

~ SAFETY IN BADMINTON = rackets, shuttles, posts and nets, jewelry, laces

check hall floor, spacing communication whole group

5M

~ SET UP OF COURTS = teacher led to whole group. (Post in holes double

hooks ( ) always facing the football pitch. Attach net (by loop in the string) to
the post nearest the main door first, then take another end towards double hook
and do a figure of eight.

10M

~ ORIGIN/HISTORY OF GAME = thought to have originated in either France

or Britain ~ 16th Century/ 17th Century. First played with string board rackets
with short handles and varied hitting objects. Evolved to present day.
Racquets have had cat gut strings, synthetic strings; shuttles now made with
geese feathers or plastic with synthetic or cork base. Recent successful
countries are Far Eastern (Malaysia; Korea although Western Countries are
getting more successful.

5M

Resources

Assessment
Formative Feedback
Teacher led Q&A =
~ student responses
~ warm up/cool down?
~ Why stretch?
~ Do you know any different
stretches?
~ Questions to re-in force setup techniques
~ Question Is badminton an
Olympic sport
~ Answer = Yes
~ Guided discovery

SEN/EBD Issues

Differentiation

~ FOREHAND GRIP = Imagine shaking hands V made with thumb and

finger up side of racket, relax wrist, not pan handle. Explore shots, what shots
can be achieved?
Lesson Conclusion/Evaluation Links to next weeks lesson
Cool down and stretches
Shower and change

Period

2M
3M
10M

~ Shorten distance to side step

~ Own time limits to complete
stretch
~ Different sized rackets
available
~ Lower net
~ Different hitting objects
available

Evaluation

Bibs
Cones
Balls
Hoops
Bats
Video

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Ropes
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Mats
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Beams
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Low Equip ( )
TV
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TEACHING STYLES: A - Command

B - Practice

Large Equipment
Shuttlecocks
Racquets
Canes
Nets
Tape Recorder

C - Reciprocal
D - Self Check

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Hockey Sticks
Stopwatches
Unihoc Equipment
Whistles
Tackle Bags
Work Cards

E - Inclusion
F - Guided Discovery

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G - Problem Solving
I - Learner Initiatives
H - Individual Program J - Self Teaching