Week 2 - Tee Ball

Equipment

Suitable indoor or outdoor playing space
Marker cones
Hitting tees
Bats
Balls
Base markers

Download the Tee Ball - Week 2 activity card to support teaching before and during the sport session.

Skill development game

Learning intention

This is a beginner rolling and trapping activity that leads to fielding skills. By adding an activity to be performed after release the intensity of the activity can be increased.

Skill focus

Rolling
Trapping
Fielding

Triangle Roll

Players in 3s stand or sit on the points of a triangle and roll a ball to one another. Play with 3 or more.

Equipment: Suitable indoor or outdoor playing area, balls, marker cones

How to play

Players spaced 3–5 metres apart.
Any ball and surface suitable for rolling.
The ball is rolled along the sides of the triangle.
Experiment with ways of trapping the ball – foot, hands.

Safety

Do not throw balls.

Triangle Roll - Playing for Life Card

Modifying Keep it Up using TREE

Teaching style

Encourage communication between team-mates.

Rules

Roll and perform an activity – how many side-to-side run/lunge combinations can you perform? Cones are used to mark the agility-run area – start with a small area.
Through the gate – 2 cones are used to make a ‘gate’. The gate may be placed closer to one player depending on ability.

Equipment

Vary the – size of ball, type of activity performed after release.
Use eye shades and a ‘goal ball’, which makes a noise when it rolls, add an interesting dimension to the activity and will include children with limited vision.
A player with limited balance or mobility can use a chair.
A player with poor hand function can use a rolling ramp.

Environment

Vary the – size of triangle, speed of ball, scoring method, size and placing of the of gate.

Modified Tee Ball game

Learning intention

To practice and refine striking, catching and throwing skills.

Skill focus

Catching
Fielding
Shot placement
Striking
Throwing

Zone Tee Ball

A team sport for developing striking, catching and throwing.

Equipment: Suitable indoor or outdoor playing area, base markers – these should be flat strips or discs, tee-ball bat and ball or alternatives (see Equipment), batting tee

How to play

Divide into teams of 6–9 players.
Batters score by hitting the ball into the scoring zone instead of running around the bases.
Players continue to move around the bases. They are moved on by the number of the zone the batter reaches with the ball.
Allow one ‘good’ hit for each batter, i.e. hit between the angle of home, first and third base.
One fielder is allowed inside the bases.
Umpire calls each batter to the home plate and calls ‘play ball’ and raises a hand to start play.

Safety

Bats must be dropped and not thrown.
Umpire to remove tee after batter has hit the ball.
Waiting batters remain in ‘safety zone’ to the rear of the batter.

Zone Tee Ball - Sports Ability Playing Card

Modifying No-Go using TREE

Teaching style

Fielders should move towards where the ball is heading and not wait for the ball to come to them.
Batters should look to see where best to hit the ball depending on the positions of the fielders.

Rules

Points can be awarded for either the zone where the ball first bounces or which zone the ball is fielded/stopped.
A fielder in possession of the ball touches the base a batter is moving to, then the batter is out.

Equipment

Include a variety of bats e.g. different sized tee-ball bats, plastic bats, paddle bats.
Use different density balls to vary the challenge for batters and fielders, e.g. whiffle ball, foam ball, softball.

Environment

Increase or decrease the playing area. Increasing the size gives fielders a bigger area to cover, decreasing will reduce scoring options.
Vary the positions of the fielding team. Have more or less fielders inside the bases.

Reflection