NAME OF ACTIVITY: Basketball chicken fights
GRADE LEVELS:
grades 3-12
EQUIPMENT
NEEDED: 1 basketball or bounce able ball per student. (If you do not
have enough balls per student, then try this as a station with smaller
groups).
HIGHLIGHTS:
running, dodging, tagging, dribbling, stealing, and eye hand coordination.
INSTRUCTIONS:
Each student is given a basketball and is made aware of the
boundaries for the game.
To begin the game students will start dribbling their basketball.
The object of the game is for the students to try to knock the ball
away from other students without losing control of their own ball.
When a student loses control of his/her ball they must exit the
game and wait at the sideline. ( on the sideline, I will have students
doing either fitness activities or chicken fight challenges).
I also stress no body contact in this activity.
Individual
version
In the individual version, which I call annihilation, students will
play on an individual basis until there is only one student left.
This last student is declared the winner and king of the coop for
that round.
Team version
In the team version, students are divided
into two or more teams. Students
are given pinnies to wear in order to distinguish the teams.
In this version the game is played the same as before except one
team tries to eliminate the other team.
The last team to have any players left on the court will be declar
ed the winner.
HELPFUL HINTS:
As students get removed to the sideline area, I will give them a
choice of activities. In the
sideline area they may do any of the following:
have individual challenge chicken fights, work on basketball skills
such as shooting, dribbling, passing, etc. or they may root for the
players that are still in the game.
In the individual version, I sometimes find it necessary to cut
down the playing area as more students get eliminated.
Eventually, the last few players may find themselves in the center
court circle.
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