Recreational Games
Recommended Prerequisite: None
Grades Offered: 9-12
Credit: ½
SDE Course Code: 3399
MNPS Course Code: PER3504
Course Description
This course focuses on the study of and participation in recreational games and sports for individuals or groups. The activities for this course can be participated in at home, in parks, vacation resorts, etc.
Course of Study
The proposed sequential order for teaching each of these units is the introduction of history, terminology, rules and game strategy. The development of skill acquisition will be accomplished through drills and lead-up games. Following the successful demonstration of skills, the students will play the game or engage in the activity. Activities could include but are not limited to the following:
· Badminton
o History
o Rules
o Equipment
§ Badminton racquet
§ Shuttlecock
§ Badminton nets
§ Standards
§ Badminton court
o Parts of Racquet
§ Head
§ Neck
§ Handle
o Terminology
§ Ace
§ Clear
§ Drive
§ Drop Shot
§ Fault
§ Let
§ Match
§ Serve
§ Shuttlecock (Birdie)
§ Smash
o Scoring
o Types of Play
§ Singles
§ Doubles
o Skills
§ Grip
· Forehand
· Backhand
§ Ready Position
§ Serving
· Underhand
· Backhand
§ Strokes
· Clear
· Drives
· Drop shot
· Smash
o Game strategy
o Game play
o Tournament play
· Bocce Ball
o History
o Terminology
o Equipment
§ Bocce balls
§ Pallino (jack) balls
§ Bocce court
§ Boundary walls (optional)
o Rules
o Scoring
o Skills and techniques
§ Roll the bocce ball closer to the pallino (jack) than your opponent
o Game strategy
o Drills
o Game play
· Croquet
o History
o Terminology
§ Aliveness
§ Backyard croquet
§ Ball-in-hand
§ Boundary margin
§ Bonus stroke
§ Break
§ Clearing deadness
§ Continuation stoke
§ Croquet heaven
§ Croquet stroke or croquet shot
§ Deadness
§ Golf croquet
§ Peg
§ Pegged out or staked out
§ Pioneer wicket
§ Roquet
§ Rush shot
§ Six-wicket croquet
§ Stake
§ Wickets
o Equipment
§ Croquet balls
§ Croquet mallets
§ Croquet court
§ Wickets
§ Stakes
§ Wicket chips
§ Flags
o Rules
o Skills and techniques
§ Striking
§ Offensive strategies
§ Defensives strategies
o Game strategy
o Drills
o Game play
· Horseshoes
o History
o Terminology
o Equipment
§ Horse shoes
§ Stakes
§ Court set-up
o Rules
o Skills and techniques
§ Tossing horseshoes
§ Offensive strategies
§ Defensives strategies
o Scoring
o Game strategy
o Drills
o Game play
· Pickleball
o History
o Rules
o Equipment
§ Pickleballs
§ Paddles
§ Nets
§ Standards
§ Pickleball court
o Terminology
§ Double Bounce Rule
§ Fault
§ Lobbing
§ Serve
§ Volley
o Scoring
o Skills
§ Grips
· Forehand
· Backhand
§ Serving
§ Lobbing
§ Volleying
o Game strategy
o Game play
o Tournament play
· Table Tennis
o History
o Terminology
§ Ace
§ Ad
§ Backhand shot
§ Backspin
§ Block
§ Chop
§ Closed racquet
§ Dead
§ Deep
§ Deuce
§ Drive
§ Drop shot
§ Flat
§ Flick
§ Follow-through
§ Forehand
§ Let
§ Loop
§ Match
§ Open racquet
§ Penhold
§ Push
§ Rally
§ Serve
§ Smash
§ Volley
o Equipment
§ Table tennis paddles
§ Table tennis net
§ Table tennis balls
§ Table tennis table
o Types of play
§ Singles
§ Doubles
o Rules
o Skills
§ Footwork and stance
§ Grips
· Shake hands grip
· Forehand
· Backhand
· Penhold
§ Serve
§ Strokes
· Push shot
· Forehand top spin shot
· Forehand and backhand loop shots
· Backhand drive
· Forehand chop
· Backhand chop
· Drop shot
· Smash shot
o Scoring
o Drills
o Game play
· Shuffleboard
o History
o Terminology
§ Alley
§ Backstop
§ Baseline
§ Black court
§ Block
§ Board
§ Call
§ Chase
§ Clear
§ Close
§ Control
§ Cue
§ Dead
§ Dead line
§ Disk
§ Drift
§ Foul line
§ Game point
§ Hammer
§ Head block
§ Jockey
§ Kill
§ Match
§ Out
§ Pot shot
§ Shoot
§ Stroke
o Equipment
§ Shuffleboard court
§ Shuffleboard disc
§ Shuffleboard cue
§ Shuffleboard scoreboard
o Rules
o Scoring
o Skills
§ Sliding discs
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