Quick Toss
Time: 2-5 minutes.
Preparation: Choose 1-3 balls that your students are able to toss and catch.
This is another activity built around teamwork, focus, and patience! You’ll need 1-3 balls for this activity. Make sure they are something the students you work with can catch! Here’s how this activity works:
- Explain to participants that it must be silent once the toss begins.
- As the facilitator, toss the ball underhand to a student not next to you. Once the other person has caught the ball, you can sit down.
- That student tosses the ball to another person and sits down after the toss. This continues until there is one person left standing. That person tosses the ball back to you.
- Keep track of how many drops there were in the first attempt at this but do not share the number or that you are doing this until the round concludes.
- Have everyone stand up again. Tell participants we will follow the same order as the first round. Challenge the group to see if they can have fewer drops than the first round.
- If the group is successful, continue with a new toss challenge. Tell students that they will, again, repeat the same toss order. Let them know that this time, you are going to introduce something new without explaining it during the round.
- While the students are going through the order again, toss a second ball to the student you have been tossing to all along. Watch to see if students pick up on this. If they are successful without dropping, they can try one more round with three balls going at once!
– Edtomorrow Team