Middle School PE Lesson Ideas

Set up: Use cones to mark the game fields that are a little more then twice as long as they are wide, i.e. 20' x 30'; 40' x 60'.

Make a line down the middle of the field.

Place two empty buckets on each side of the midline and two buckets on the middle of the endline. Two different colors make it easier for the students.

The balls should be split between the two buckets on the endlines and there should be enough tennis balls so the throwers have at least three throws or more.

If space and equipment allow, use small-sided games of 4-6 students per team, two teams per field, each wearing their own color jersey.

Each team should divide into an equal number of throwers and catchers.
Throwers go to the bucket of tennis balls, on the endline.
Catchers start opposite the midline from the throwers.

On the signal, throwers throw tennis balls over the opponent's catchers, to their catching teammates.
If caught without hitting the ground, the catcher places the tennis ball in the bucket to the right of the midline (or their color bucket).

Any balls that are not caught can be picked up by the nearest throwers once the bucket of tennis balls is empty. They must go back to the endline to throw.

Continue to play until one team has placed 10 balls into the bucket or a certain time limit has expired.

Switch catchers and throwers after each game.

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