Battleship
Activity

Mini Goalball Battleship

Introduce children to sports with this adapted game of the popular Goalball sport!

This is a fun, fast-paced, quick reaction game generally played by four people at a time in a gymnasium. The game can be played by sighted and non-sighted individuals. Eye shades or blacked-in goggles may be used by all players to ensure equal play and the opportunity to improve spatial orientation. The skills worked on within this activity are directly related to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education National Standards, the Perkins School for the Blind Adapted Physical Education Curriculum and components of the Expanded Core Curriculum.

Materials

Design or Set-Up

Set up four sets of three bowling pins across from each other, forming a square or rectangle. The pins within each group are set up one to two feet apart, far enough to make it difficult to knock down more than one at a time. Stand a wedge mat behind each set of pins. The mat and the pins together make up each player’s “battleship,” and the area they are responsible for and need to protect. A few feet in front of each set of pins you may tape a line to the floor the length of the pins; this line gives a tactual cue to each player as to where their area of play is.

The game is played by each player standing in front of their pins to block them, and rolling the goalballs to try and knock down the other players’ pins. The game is started when the instructor rolls out a goalball. After a few minutes a second and third goalball is rolled into play. The instructor announces each time an additional ball is added to the game. When all of a player’s pins are down that player is eliminated from the game and can sit on the floor by the pins. The last player with at least one pin standing wins.

Game Rules

Set up for battleship game

Variations

Hint: If mats are not available, the game can be played without mats, or by improvising a backstop, such as a table turned on its side.

By MLaCortiglia

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