• One soccer size foam ball or soccer ball for half the number of students in the class
• one soccer goal or folded gymnastic mats to make a goal area
• 15-20 cones

To improve students’ abilities to kick for distance using the "shoelaces" of the foot.

1. Before class, set up one soccer goal at the end of a large, open playing area. If a net is not available, a folding panelled gymnastics mat can be set up for the goal area. Use cones to set up a curved goal line approximately 8 feet from the goal. Then set up two parallel lines of cones at the other end of the playing area. The two baselines should be approximately 15 feet apart, with each cone on the first baseline having a counterpart on the second baseline.
2. Half the class in lined up at a cone on the first baseline with their ball on the ground. The other half of the class is scattered anywhere in the outfield.
3. On your signal, students at the cones all kick their ball forward into the outfield. After they kick the ball they run to their cone on the second baseline and back again to the first. This scores one “run.” They keep repeating going back and forth, scoring "runs" until the signal is give to stop.
4. When the balls have been kicked into the outfield, each person finds one ball only to dribble using feet only to the goal. When each person has successfully kicked the ball into the goal, this stops the running of the other team. At this time the teacher can ask each person for their number of runs and the whole team adds their runs together for a total. Students then switch roles, so those in the outfield now get to kick.

Students in the outfield could dribble the balls with their feet back to the original cones.

Students kicking into the outfield could be given a target to shoot for.