Badminton Golf: 20+ Station Cards for PE Class

At Badmintongolf, minigolf and badminton come together, and these station cards turn it into a game for physical education. From the starting line, students can play the shuttlecock into an upside-down box, hit it through a hanging hoop, or get it over the net into a hoop. In doing so, they playfully explore the short and long serve. Every attempt is counted, and the person who needs the fewest strokes overall wins.

This is included in the material

• Instructions for implementation for preparing the serves, designing the stations, and further lessons
• Possible lesson structure from warm-up, setup, main part, evaluation, and pack-up to reflection and award ceremony
• Game rules as an overview and as rule cards: goal of the game, scoring, allowed strokes, starting point, and fair play
• Station cards with task, required material, and illustration, with short and long targets
• Scorecard for recording the attempts per lane and the total number
• Station labeling with numbers for the individual lanes

Tips for using the material

• Introduce serves beforehand: Before the game, it is advisable to cover the short and long serve and practice them, for example with technique cards, videos, or a demonstration. Students who already confidently master the serves can give the others tips on how to perform them.
• Set up the stations together: Each group of four can set up a station using the station cards and choose the distances themselves. It is particularly motivating when students contribute their own ideas to the design of the stations.
• Play and record alternately: In each group, two people can always play while the other two take a break and record the attempts on the scorecard. Instead of continuing from where the shuttlecock landed, you can also start again from the starting line.
• Reflection: At the end, students can describe at which stations they used the forehand and at which they used the backhand serve.
• Award ceremony: The scorecards can be evaluated for an award ceremony where the best players are announced.
• Further lessons: Badmintongolf can be continued as a competition where pairs or larger groups compete against each other, or as a large obstacle course on the sports field or school grounds, whose lanes and rules the students help design.
• Music: Motivating music can create a lively atmosphere in the sports hall.

These skills are promoted

• Short and long serve by playing specifically into boxes, hoops, and on mats
• Stroke control, because the targets sometimes need to be played short and sometimes long
• Justify technique choice when describing when the forehand and when the backhand serve are appropriate
• Fair play through rules that forbid distracting fellow players and require honest recording of attempts
• Cooperation when setting up and packing up the stations together, with finished groups helping the others

Organizational notes

Badminton rackets, shuttlecocks, and the equipment specified on the station cards are required, for example cones, boxes, hoops, and gymnastics mats. It can be played in the sports hall, on the sports field, or on the playground, in regular physical education as well as at school sports events.

To match this, there are Badminton station cards, Minigolf at stations, Frisbeegolf, and Badminton certificates for the award ceremony.