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Grade Level: 9-12

Students use a medicine ball and throw back and forth over a net(make sure it is a strong net, or use a slack line across a set of standards instead). There is one team on either side of the net. The goal is to catch the medicine ball after it is thrown over the net. Each time the ball is not caught, the team who threw it gains a point. Can play to 10/15/or 21.

SHAPE Grade level Outcomes:

Affective

Uses communication skills and strategies that promote team or group dynamics.50 (S4.H3.L1)

Cognitive
Psychomotor

Demonstrates competency and/or refines activity-specific movement skills in 2 or more lifetime activities (outdoor pursuits, individual-performance activities, aquatics, net/wall games or target games).24 (S1.H1.L1)

Variations: 

You can allow a bounce before the ball must be caught f needed, or when playing with beginners.