Coal City Middle School’s sixth and seventh grade PE classes are participating in a speedball unit. Physical education teacher, Mark Masters says It is one of the student favorites. Speedball combines three sports—football, basketball and soccer. The object is to score a touchdown (1 point), shoot a basket (2 points) or score a goal (3 points).
In eighth grade, health students just finished studying the five components of physical fitness and how to set a fitness goal plan to improve their quality of life. They have now moved on to discussing nutrition.