Abstract

Interest in flag football for teaching ball game in PE has been increasing in the last decade. Flag football is one of the few ball games in which the players have the opportunity to plan what they would do for each play. Therefore, it is more suitable teaching material for learning tactics and strategy in PE classes. However, the effectiveness of flag football as teaching materials was not clarified before.
The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of flag football as teaching materials in PE classes, by analyzing the change in planning and executing strategies by children in the process of the PE unit. Concretely speaking, the change of strategy patterns which were planned and executed by children was examined in games during fifth grade and sixth grade flag football units. As a result of this study, the following was clarified: 1) Children had planned many strategy patterns using basic tactics in flag football, and these patterns had developed only to those taking in defense into consideration. 2) The rate of executing strategies during game play increased gradually in the whole process unit. Verf.-Referat