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- 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 »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students participate in a basketball shooting activity modelled after miniature golf. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students research an athlete, team, or sport profiled in one or more website. They organize and present a nomination of the perosn, team, or sport to the Sports Canada Hall of Fame. Full Review »
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- 9th - 12th
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Students practice proper technique for shooting a basketball set shot and jump shot by playing a game similar to golf, but using a basketball and basketball hoops. Full Review »
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- 4th - 8th
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Students examine six simple machines and investigate who Rube Goldberg is. They explore various websites, write an article, write ten interesting facts about Rube Goldberg, and design and construct a simple machine. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students are introduced to the elements of poetry. As a class, they practice the correct way to read a poem and determine the author's audience. They identify similies and metaphors and determine the rhyme and meter. To end the lesson, they write their own poems. Full Review »
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- 8th
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Students participate in several game like activities. The first, Planetary Orbit Race," involves two students holding a 12 meter rope. One member remains in their spot while the other races around in a circle. The rope represents gravity, the runner is a planet. The second activity, "Comet Time Trials," simulates a comets' orbit about the sun, and the third, "Weightless Ball," they simulate anti-gravity by keeping a beach ball aloft. Full Review »
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- 3rd - 6th
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Students investigate the cyclic phases of the Moon and the positioning of the Earth, Moon, and Sun at each phase. They locate and cut out magazine pictures of the moon, define key vocabulary terms, and act out the phases of the Moon using a golf ball, softball, basketball and a flashlight. Full Review »
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- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the statistics of March Madness, the college basketball tournament. They watch videotaped basketball games to collect data for further analysis using Word and Excel. They analyze the data in a variety of activities during this series of lessons. Full Review »
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- 7th - 9th
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Students discover how the coefficient of restitution is applied to sports by measuring the bounciness of a ball. After examining the mathematical equation that applies to coefficient of restitution, students go to the gym, measure the COR of each basketball and determine how many meet the official standard. Full Review »
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