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Chuckit® Adapted Activity Guide

Written By Dan Cariaga

Introduction

Do your students, who are in wheel chairs, have problems retrieving a tennis ball from the floor? Chuckit is a terrific implement that allows your wheelchair students to do just that. It allows differently abled students to play a catch game with one another. Objects can be propelled in a hard sling or a soft arc. This guide is designed to help you and your students get the most from Chuckit in an adapted environment.

Objectives For Use
The student will retrieve a ball from the floor and use Chuckit to propel a ball to a target or towards another person.
Note: Students should be aware of the different ability levels of others and should be taught to propel or launch an object to a peer in an appropriate way.

Activities

Retrieving A Ball Before It Stops Rolling
This is a ball-retrieving drill. Have students get into a line formation. The teacher rolls the ball to the right or left of the first student. Instruct the students to run ahead of the ball before they use the Chuckit to pick it up. The student moves to the ball to retrieve the ball before it stops rolling and brings it back or propels it to the teacher.

Wheelie Golf
A golf course is prepared with the distance between each green about 35 yards. Tennis balls are used as golf balls. A hula-hoop, traffic cone, trash can or the base of a tree may be used as a hole. The object is to go from the tee to the hole in the least number of strokes (shots).

Wheelie Tennis
Played on a tennis court, the object is to hurl, propel or launch the tennis ball to the other side of the court and for the opponent to retrieve the ball before the ball leaves the court. Lower skilled players do not need a net.

Launch A Frog
Students use the Chuckit as an implement to propel or launch a tennis ball to a target, over a net, into a basket or to another person. Make the activity exceptionally fun by using BeanBagFrogs™ (see the Sportime catalog). The teacher should instruct the students to launch a frog for either distance or accuracy.

Money Chuck
Use the Chuckit to propel or launch a tennis ball into the air. Players are scattered in a designated play area and a money point system is used.
Scoring:

Catch Up
Groups of 6 to 8 members are formed. One is the batter the rest are fielders. The batter uses the Chuckit to propel the ball. The first fielder that touches the ball or grounder is the next batter, and the batter goes to the field. The game is continuous.