NAME OF ACTIVITY: frantic

GRADE LEVELS: grades 2-12

EQUIPMENT NEEDED: 40 tennis balls enough for each student with a few extra ).

HIGHLIGHTS:  teamwork, strategy, eye-hand coordination, hitting a moving object.

INSTRUCTIONS:  Class is spread out randomly over the playing area. The instructor will throw, roll or kick out a number of balls equal to the number of players. The object of the game is to keep the moving tennis balls (rabid nugget ) moving for as long as possible.  Judges are placed at each end of the field to watch for balls that stop (hectics).  Each time a judge sees a hectic he will yell (berserk) " hectic" and point to the ball.  The players have 5 seconds to get the hectic moving.  A team continues to play until it accumulates six hectics.  Once a team accumulates six hectics the "frenzy" is over.  The object of the game is to see how long the team can make a frenzy last.  Every 15 seconds a judge will toss a new nugget into the game.

Terminology:
    Rabid Nugget – a moving tennis ball
     Hectic -  A tennis ball that has stopped
     Berserk – a loud hysterical scream
    Frenzy – the time span for 1 Round of the activity

VARIATION:  This game also works well with balloons instead of tennis balls.  The idea stays the same, but players must now keep the balloons in flight.

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