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- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students practice their basketball shooting skills and use a scoring system taken from the game of golf. They explore both games and have lots of fun! Rules are provided. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 12th
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Students practice basketball skills including the ability to move and dribble a ball with control while keeping it away from an opponent; to pass a ball using various types of passes; to shoot toward an intended target. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th
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Students calculate percentages, convert fractions to decimals, and decimals to fractions using information from a basketball game. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students work together to participate in a basketball tournament. They practice their dribbling, passing and shooting skills. They complete a written test over the rules as well. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th - 8th
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Students investigate how to build a basketball court. They research the measurements needed for construction. Then they create a scale drawing to illustrate the actual size of the court. The discovery of different size courts helps to facilitate classroom discussion. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students work with the teacher one group at a time, spreading out and with a basketball, practice dribbling with the music that is playing in the background. After they dribble with their dominate hand, they switch hands and do the same thing. Then they all dribble around the gym watching the person in front of them. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Studnets practice basketball skills. They combine cardiovascular endurance, flexibility, and strength fitness activities with skill practice and review of previously learned skills in the fitness development part of a basketball lesson. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the development of skills needed to play basketball. They practice dribbling while maneuvering through a maze of obstacles. The lesson contains all the steps needed to execute the plan. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 12th
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Students read an article about a brawl between the Denver Nuggets and New York Knicks. As a class, they discuss whether or not this story should have made front page news. Individually, they write a debate persuading others to think about whether when ahead in a game starters should continue playing or backups should be let in. They pretend they are advisors to David Stern and advise him how to elimate fighting on the court. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 1st - 5th
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Students practice agility, critical thinking skills and dribbling a basketball. They determine whether or not they should assume a defensive position or an offensive position and react accordingly. In addition they prepare to start and stop quickly. Full Review »

