Space Invaders — Invasion Games Unit
Category: Sport Skills · 22-page printable PDF · Ages 7-8 · Free for ConnectedPE members
A complete 8-lesson invasion games unit for Years 7–8 built on one big idea: create space, use it, take it away. Rather than teaching netball, basketball, football and hockey as separate skill silos, the unit teaches the tactical concepts that transfer across all of them — then lets students prove the transfer by switching sports.
Every lesson follows the Spark · Build · Play · Reflect structure, with Game Sense questioning driving the thinking and three self-select tiers keeping every student appropriately challenged. Students learn to read the play, make decisions under pressure, create and deny space in modified games, and lead peers fairly — with a full assessment rubric mapped to AC9HPE8M01 and AC9HPE8M04.
Twenty-two pages covering the full teaching sequence, lesson cards, questioning prompts and assessment. Run it with whatever invasion-game equipment you have; the tactics are the curriculum, the sports are just the venue.
What students learn
Students refine and apply specialised movement skills and tactics under game pressure; create, use and deny space in modified invasion games; make decisions by reading the play; and reflect, self-assess and lead peers fairly.
Topics: invasion games, unit plan, tactics, Game Sense, TGfU, STEP framework, space, passing, defending, 8 lessons, assessment
Curriculum links
- AC9HPE8M01
- AC9HPE8M04
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