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A Basketball Tournament
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.
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Basketball Passing
Second graders practice dribbling and passing a basketball. They also learn the correct finger position for dribbling and how to place their feet when passing.
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Basketball Golf
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.
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Swish: Applying Statistics to Real Life
Sixth graders conduct on-line research of shot data and percentages for professional basketball players. They compare computed data to researched data and write a letter informing professional organizations of their findings.
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Hunter Lesson Plan 6
Eighth graders identify basic and advanced skills of dribbling a basketball, perform skills, and participate in approximately 10 dribbling stations, drills, and games as outlined by instructor.
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Dribbling Maze
Students practice and improve their dribbling skills in a game-like situation, by dribbling through a maze.
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How to Bounce a Ball
Students practice bouncing a basketball with their right and left hands as well as running while bouncing.
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Basketball Warm-Ups
Students participate in several warm-up activities to prepare for playing basketball. Activities are to be completed as individuals or with a partner.
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Understanding the Key Points for Basketball Skills
Students work in pairs to help each other explain the purpose of the key points of basketball.
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Rocketsmania And Slope
Students use a professional basketball team's data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They draw a line of regression and finding its equation. They access a website containing statistics for the Houston Rockets basketball team to solve...
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Basketball Golf
Students participate in a basketball shooting activity modelled after miniature golf.
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Shooting Basketball Stars
Students adapt to different basketball shooting ranges, from lay-ups to outside shots.
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Free Shot Physics
Students discuss ways to test the bounciness of different balls. For this physics lesson, students measure how high each one bounce. They record data and compare results.
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Basketball Maze
In this literacy worksheet, students look for the path through the maze using visual and spatial skills. The ball must be passed through the basket.
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Be Annoying
Students get in a defensive position and move around any student dribbling a basketball. The student dribbling counts to ten, if they can maintain their dribble for the ten count, the defensive player has to go and be annoying to a...
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Basketball - Shooting
Students practice dribbling a basketball. They perform activities requiring walking, running, use of left and right hand. Students explore proper posture when dribbling. They experience the art of a progressive cross over. Students...
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Basketball for Better Verse
Students listen to and read stories about basketball. They write poetry about basketball.
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Monster in the Forest
Young scholars practice dribbling a ball using their fingertips while keeping the ball at waist height. They need to travel across a gym through a maze of cones while continually dribbling the ball successfully.
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Teaching Free Throws
Seventh graders watch video on proper way to shoot a free throw in basketball, identify different skills in game of basketball, and shoot at least 20 free throws.
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Shadow Dribble Tag
Students work in pairs to refine their dribbling skills. One student is given a ball and told to dribble within the shadow of a partner. The second student is told to move in a way that keeps his or her shadow out of reach.
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Dribble Frenzy
Students reinforce and review dribbling skills taught in previous class lessons and compare their ability to dribble with different types of balls.
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Bottle Cap Basketball
Students play a simple game to practice the fundamentals of a bounce pass and aiming the basketball.
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Lincoln Avenue Basketball
Students practice incorporating the various skills and strategies associated with basketball. This activity can also be used to introduce different offensive and defensive strategies.