Territory Games are activities that involve controlling an object, keeping it away from opponents and moving it into position to score. Both offensive and defensive players share the same playing area as they work to prevent the other team from scoring. By playing these games, participants will learn the key skills and tactics for games such as Soccer, Handball, Ultimate Frisbee, Football, Basketball, Hockey, Goalball, Wheelchair Basketball and Lacrosse.
Participants learn about and practise moving around the playing area while tagging others and avoiding being tagged.
Participants learn about and practise moving effectively while attempting to tag other participants and avoid being tagged.
Participants learn about and practise how to work as a group to roll the ball across the opposing group’s end line while wearing eyeshades.
Participants learn about and practise applying defensive and offensive strategies when trying to knock down other participants’ targets while defending their own targets.
Participants learn about and practise working as a group to keep possession of the ball while playing against a defender. Participants learn about and practise applying defensive skills, concepts, and strategies to gain and maintain possession of the ball.
Participants learn about and practise working as a group to invade another group’s territory and knock down their target.
Participants learn about and practise invading an opponent’s territory to score the most number of points while avoiding getting tagged.
Participants learn about and practise keeping possession of and intercepting a ball while wearing eyeshades.
Participants learn and practise working as a group to invade an opponents’ territory and to score a goal.
Participants learn about and practise working as a group to send and receive an object, while preventing an opponent from intercepting a pass.
Participants learn about and practise preventing another participant from invading their territory by taking their tail away.
Participants learn about and practise working as a group to invade another group’s territory and hit a pylon to score a goal, and preventing an opponent from scoring goals.
Participants learn about and practise playing a modified game of soccer while moving within designated zones.
Participants learn about and practise how to invade another group’s territory through a group tag game.
Participants learn about and practise moving effectively to maintain and gain possession of a space.
Participants learn about and practise applying offensive and defensive skills in a territory game. This activity reinforces the role of Protector traditionally found in First Nation, Métis, and Inuit cultures.
Participants learn about and practise striking and fielding a ball while using an implement. This activity is inspired by lacrosse which has First Nation origins. One of the oldest North American sports, lacrosse evolved from games played by nations such as the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois nations) found around the Great Lakes.
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