Shooting for archery trivia

In this lesson, students will continue to improve target shooting by aiming for index cards placed on their targets. The cards will contain questions pertaining to archery terminology, which will also serve as a review.

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Learning outcomes

Students will:

• accept responsibility for violating safety rules
• improve target shooting by aiming at trivia cards on target faces
• review archery terminology by answering questions placed on index cards

Teacher planning

Time required for lesson

45 minutes

Materials/resources

• archery targets
• bows
• arrows
• trivia cards (made by teacher)
• treats or rewards (candies, free exercise pass, etc.)

Activities

Activity 1

1. Classroom preparation for archery shooting by teacher lecture and demonstration in which students will learn:
• parts of the bow (nock, handle, arrow rest) and types of bows (curve, recurve, compound)
• parts of the arrow (fletching, nock, index vane)
• how to brace the bow using the “step-across” method (bracing, step-across)
• proper technique for loading the arrow, stance, drawing the bow, aiming, release, follow-through, and retrieving (drawing, nocking, anchor point, “three-finger pull”)
• anatomy of muscles and joints used to draw the bow
2. Safety guidelines for classroom shooting will be listed:
• Stand in single-file lines.
• Stand behind the shooter.
• Aim only at the target.
• Shoot upon teacher’s command.
• Retrieve upon teacher’s command.
• Do not point the arrow at anyone loaded or unloaded.
3. Students will list consequences for violating any of the safety rules. Any consequence that is not appropriate will be dismissed by teacher.
4. At the end of the classroom discussion, I have the students write an archery jingle similiar to “never release an arrow aimlessly into the air, falling to the earth, you know not where.”

Activity 2

Target Shooting: Students will line up in three–five single file lines facing the targets at a distance determined by teacher. Safety rules and consequences will be reviewed. The first student in each line will receive four arrows. Upon teacher’s command, students will load and shoot four arrows. Technique will be observed and corrected as needed. Students will retrieve their own four arrows upon teacher’s command (after the first student in each line has completed shooting). The retrieved arrows will be handed to the next person in line that will shoot upon command. It is important that students get into the habit of waiting for the commands to shoot and retrieve for safety purposes.

Activities 3, 4, and 5

Archery games to enhance participation and target shooting. I use a variety of games and rewards to keep the interest of the students before I play Archery Trivia, which serves as a review before the students take a written quiz.

Game 1: Shooting for Team Points

Students will shoot five arrows per turn keeping the point value of the arrow with the highest points. Each team keeps an add-on tally of points until entire line has had a turn. The team with the most points may win a treat. Point value for example:

• Bullseye=100 points
• Red Circle=50 points
• Blue Circle=25 points

Game 2: Tic-Tac-Toe Archery

Students will shoot five arrows per turn at a tic-tac-toe board drawn on the target face. Students will try to shoot three arrows in a row vertically, horizontally, or diagonally. If a student successfully hits tic-tac-toe, they win a treat!

Game 3: Balloon Pop

Students will shoot four arrows at six or seven balloons placed on target face by teacher. Each time a student pops a balloon, their name is entered in a drawing to win a soda pop at the end of class. Balloons are replaced as they are popped.

Activity 6

Shooting for Archery Trivia

This lesson utilizes the questions or terms on the index cards that were discussed and/or defined on the first day of the archery unit in the classroom. Students will shoot four arrows each turn at index cards that have been pinned on the target face (approximately five or six cards per target). The index cards contain questions pertaining to archery on the back. Students that hit a trivia card and correctly answer the question wins a treat (miniature candy bar works like magic).

Sample trivia questions:

1. What type of bow uses pulleys?
2. Name one joint that moves when drawing the bow.
3. What is the fletching?
4. Define index vane.
5. How does bow poundage equate with shooting distance?
6. Name a famous archer.
7. Where is your anchor point?
8. What method of bracing is used in class?

Assessment

Grades are determined by student participation. When a student violates a safety rule,the consequence (given by the students) usually results in a loss of some or all their participation points for that day (three points per day). Students will also complete a fifteen-point archery quiz on the questions and terms discussed in class and each day on the archery range. Each question is worth one point.

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Comments

This unit usually takes me two weeks to play all the games. It could be cut to five to seven days. The students love to win treats and will try so hard when they have a prize to shoot for.