High School Games for Physical Education

Play a variety of sports in your physical education class.

Physical education classes engage high school students in physical activities to keep them healthy and active. The games played in these classes help students build the social skills they will need in the future, as they become young adults. Exciting games give the students a break from the classroom and a chance to move around while having fun.

Steal the Ball

Have all your students sit in a circle and put a medium-to-large size medicine ball in the middle of the circle. Select two students who are about the same size to go first. The two students must sit on their knees on each side of the ball. Tell them to grab a hold of the ball by wrapping their arms around it. When you say, "Go," the students must try to wrestle the ball away from one another. The first person to let go of the ball loses the game. Try to match up students by size to make the game fair.

Flying Disc Golf

Place several color cones around the play area (some close together and some far apart) and give each student a Frisbee flying disc. The object of the game is to land the flying disc beside the cone. Divide the students into teams of three or four and give each team a small sheet of paper and a pencil. Teams write down how many times it took each player to land the flying disc touching each cone. The person with the least amount of throws wins the game. You can also score by teams, so the team with the lowest score would win the game.

Beanbag Toss

Purchase several small and medium size beach pails. Mark a standing line and place the buckets starting about 15 feet from the line. Take a black permanent marker and write point values on the buckets. Write low point values for the buckets closest to the standing line and high point values on the buckets further away. Give each student 10 beanbags to try to toss into the buckets. Write down each student's score and the student with the highest score wins the game.

Stop the Ball

Tell your high school students to get in a circle with their legs spread apart. Tell them to press their feet up against each one of their neighbor's feet. Give one student a soccer or volleyball to roll. The students can rest their hands on their knees so they are ready for the game. The student that has the ball tries to roll it underneath the legs of another student before he catches it with his hands. If he catches the ball, he tries to do the same by rolling the ball between someone else's legs. If he misses the ball, he is out of the game and the person who rolled the ball gets the ball back to try to get someone else out. The last four players left win the game.

References

• Lesson Plan Central: Physical Education Games
• PE Central: Lesson Plans for Physical Education