Fitness Components - Football Match up Game

This game I made for my Btec Sport group as a follow up to a fitness components lesson. Its an interactive activity that could be used as a starter or plenary. The game worked really well as it helped to instill the learning of fitness components from the previous lesson.

Football Match up Game

• Pupils get into groups of three. Two are football players with the other as the referee who has a stopwatch. They are issued one stopwatch and coin per group.
• Each group are given the fitness component cut outs and a football playing area as shown below.
• The fitness components and definitions are scattered and jumbled on the table around the football playing area.

Rules of the game

• The game starts with a coin toss for the possession of the ball (use coin as the ball maybe).
• On each player possession they must attempt to make a match with a fitness component to its definition. They have to make one match to move the coin across the board and a second match to score a goal.
• Dependant on ability, I would give 30 seconds for the pupil to make a match. But decrease/increase in accordance to ability level.
• The referee will time each possession and judge if the fitness component matches to the definition.
• After a goal is scored or the pupil makes an incorrect match, the possession gets turned over.
• When the game is in full flow, I would start to take completed matches away. The game would finish when all fitness components have been paired with definitions. Leaving a score line.

Thanks for viewing this game, any comments are welcome.