Activity: Pickle Ball Tournament

Targeted Learning Result: The students will accomplish the learning results of E1, G1 and G2.
Length of Period: 45 minutes
Number of Students: 16-24
Equipment: paddles, wiffle balls, 6 poles, 5 nets,
Class Objective: The students will demonstrate hand-eye coordination when volleying a wiffle
ball back and forth over nets with pickle ball rackets.

Pickle Ball Rules

A net is set up with either singles or doubles that volley back and forth using a paddle. On a
serve, the server must hit the ball diagonally onto the other team’s court. The ball must bounce
once on each side before a player’s paddle makes contact with the ball. Players are only allowed
in the non-volley zone to hit a ball that has landed inside there. If the receiving team makes a
fault, the serving team gets the point. If the serving team makes a fault, it becomes the other
team’s chance to serve the ball. A team can only score points when they are serving. If the
team’s score is even then that team serves on the right side. If the team’s score is odd then that
team serves on the left side.

Bank: v. between two numbers means versus

For even number classes For odd number classes

1 v. 2 1 v. 4 1 v. 6 2 v. 3 1 v. 5 1 v. 7 1 v. 3 1 v. 2 3 v. 5 1 v. 6
3 v. 4 2 v. 6 4 v. 8 1 v. 4 2 v. 6 2 v. 5 2 v. 4 3 v. 4 4 v. 6 3 v. 7
5 v. 6 3 v. 8 2 v. 10 6 v. 7 4 v. 7 3 v. 6 5 v. 7 5 v. 6 2 v. 7 4 v. 5
7 v. 8 5 v. 10 3 v. 9 5 3 4 6 7 1 2
9 v. 10 7 v. 9 5 v. 7
Time Activity Cues Equipment Organization
10 minutes Attendance Teacher states Stop-watch Students line
17 push-ups start/stop at up against
55 crunches beginning and bleachers.
3 minute run end of run. Run around
Hold pulse for out-skirts of
ten seconds Teacher states gymnasium.
Group find your pulse Immediately
Stretches (time for 10 after run find
seconds and pulse. Stretch
have students in circle
multiply result formation in
by 6 to find middle of
pulse) gymnasium. A
different
student each
class leads
stretches in
middle of circle
with peer
tutors.

27 minutes Pickle Ball Told each pair Paddles Class divided

Round Robin who they Wiffle balls into pairs. Each
Tournament would be 6 poles pair is a team.
Pickle ball playing before 5 nets Two teams go
rules listed game was over. up against each
above with This allowed other.
team format everyone to
order transfer
opponents
smoothly at
start of new
game.
8 minutes Closure Time to change None Students
Put equipment change up in
away their respective
Changed up locker rooms