LESSON PLAN
ROWAN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND EXERCISE SCIENCE
HEALTH & PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Teacher: Kellilynn Clifford & Tyler Bayley
Unit Title: Tennis Serve
Lesson #1 of 4
Duration of class: 40 minutes Number of students: 24 Grade level: 4th
SECTION A. (Overview)
Rationale (importance of lesson): To properly play tennis students need to know the
necessary skills to be able to play. Serving is needed to learn because it is what starts
games and is used frequently throughout the game.
Anticipated difficulties and how they will be addressed:
 Some students won’t be able to make contact or hit a regular tennis ball- use a
playground ball or a ball of a larger size
 Some students won’t know where the serve should go or where is best- use cones to
indicate where to go
Resources, Equipment and Materials:
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Tennis balls
Tennis Rackets
Poly Spots or Cones
Larger playground balls
SECTION B. (Objectives, CPIs & Assessment)
Lesson Objective (CPI)
Psychomotor: Will be able to
serve in tennis with proper
skill cues.
Cognitive: Will be able to
identify a proper serve
Affective: Will demonstrate if
they enjoyed the lesson by a
thumb up or down and also
being able to see smiles on
their faces or wanting to stay
after longer to keep playing.
CPI#
2.5.4.A.1
2.5.4.A.2
Student Assessment
Teacher observation
2.5.4.A.1
Closure questions
2.5.4.A.1
Closure questions
SECTION C. (Learning Activities & Instructional Strategies*)
Time
Line:
Lesson Content, Procedures (management, transitions), & Instructional
Strategies – Include introductory activities, learning focus activities,
culminating activity & closure
8
Introductory Activities:
Minutes
 Review day before lesson
 Have students sit at center court on the line or designate another spot if in a
different location
 Ask students if they have ever played tennis or did a tennis serve before or
do they know what it is or how it is done
 Inform students they will be in squads/teams and each person will need to
get a tennis racket and one tennis ball for their team. They will go to their
section of the tennis court and wait for more directions.
 Stretch/Warmup
10
Minutes
Learning Focus Activities:
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Inform students they will be learning how to perform a tennis serve.
Explain and demonstrate the serving cues:
o Eyes on contact point of ball on the racket
o Knees slightly bent
o Stand sideways
o Bring Racket back
o Toss Ball
o Follow through
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Protocol Teacher:
o 3 views from the side correct form of a tennis serve
o 3 views from facing forward correct form of a tennis serve
Protocol Student:
o 5x’s eyes closed imagining yourself slow-mo
o 5x’s eyes closed imagining yourself moderate motion
o 5x’s eyes open in slow-mo
o 5x’s eyes open in moderate motion
Students will get into lines and walk up and down the court will keeping their
eye on the tennis ball as it balances on their rackets.
Students will get into lines and jog up and down the court will keeping their
eye on the tennis ball as it balances on their rackets.
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Students will walk up and down the court while bouncing the ball on the
tennis racket in front of them. Keeping their eyes on it the whole time.
Students will jog up and down the court while bouncing the ball on the tennis
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racket in front of them. Keeping their eyes on it the whole time.
Biomechanics: Athletic stance with feet shoulder with apart, eyes on the ball
and its point of contact, keeping weight balanced as you bring your arm back
to swing, shoulder rotation, follow through the full swing.
20
Culminating Activity:
Minutes
 Bombers:
o On the opposite side of the court have targets with in the serving box
that the students are trying to learn where it is but also to learn their
accuracy at hitting the tennis ball over there.
o Instead of them trying to send a serve as fast as possible this is more
of a lob activity so that they can grasp the proper form and to be able
to keep their eye on the ball the whole time.
o Whoever can get it in or closest to the target gets a point.
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2
Minutes
Hot Potato:
o Teams of 2 or 4 depending on class size
o Teams on either side of the court
o Practice serving properly to the opposite side of the court and the
other side is supposed to return the ball without letting it hit the
ground or keeping it to long
o The team who can make it over twice without dropping it scores a
point
Reflection/Closure:
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Ask students what are the cues for tennis serve?
Ask students by showing a thumb up or down if they enjoyed the lesson and
learned anything more then what they knew?
Ask students if they liked activities game and what would they change?
Make sure the biomechanics were covered and that they know them
Biomechanics: Athletic stance with feet shoulder with apart, eyes on the ball
and its point of contact, keeping weight balanced as you bring your arm back
to swing, shoulder rotation, follow through the full swing.
SECTION D. (Reflection)
Student Outcomes: Describe degree to which students met each objective:
Teacher Effectiveness: What went well? What needs work? How would you modify the
lesson?