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Basketball Relays
Students have basketball relays with the basketball and examine how to dribble the basketball and control the basketball without letting it get away. After much practice, they examine how to move quickly with the basketball.
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Twenty-One
Twenty-One is a basketball game of skill practice. Most of the practice happens to be shooting baskets from the free-throw line. Three to five players are at a basket, and the rules are simple to follow. When a player makes a shot from...
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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.
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Dribbling Speedway
Students control a ball while dribbling with hands and feet through obstacles. This is a heart healthy activity that accompanies the completion of several tasks as they reach their assigned station.
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Macarena Basketball Review
Students review the basketball skills learned in class and are challenged to perform specific skills to the beat of the music.
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Dribble Frenzy
Pupils 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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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.
National Association for Sport & Physical Fitness
Indoor Physical Activity Ideas for Kids!
Rainy day schedule doesn't mean you can't stay fit! Use a collection of indoor physical activities during periods of inclement weather, substitute teaching days, or for those afternoons when your class just wants to move around!
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Playing in the Snow
Students practice dribbling and passing skills. In this basketball skills lesson, students rotate through a series of winter-themed stations with a partner and practice dribbling while jumping low hurdles, dribbling around "snowmen" and...
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Socketball
Students build dribbling and passing skills. In this passing skills instructional activity, students use basketballs and soccerballs to participate in a team sport in order to score points. Each team must try to pass the ball correctly...
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Obstacle Soccer
Students practice soccer dribbling, passing, and trapping skills, which enhance students' self-reliance, trust and independence.
PhysEdGames
Steal the Ball
Put all the balls (same type of ball) in the middle of the basketball court. One person from each team must run to the center of the court and bring back the ball to their team's hula hoop. If using soccer balls, players must dribble;...
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Zone Ball
Students are introduced to the basics about zone defense in basketball. In groups, they practice this technique to turn away from gravitating to the ball handler. They also complete non-bounce passes and examine how to move without a...
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Spelling Free Throw (Elementary, Games)
Students run to the chalk board to spell a given word, pick up a basketball, dribble to the hoop and make one shot, run the basketball back to their starting place to score points for their team.
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Monster in the Forest
Students 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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basketball golf
Eighth graders practice shooting basketballs at a hoop and keep track of their own score.
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Fancy Dribbling
Students enter the playing area and pick up a ball of their choice to dribble. Then find a good self space and face the teacher with the ball between their feet. When the music starts they are to dribble all over the playing area.
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The Bones of the Body
Third graders recognize the bones that make up the human body. They become more aware of the human body. Students experiment with this concept with a variety of items. They also work on this concept with dribbling a ball.
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Dribble The Basketball
Students recognize the phoneme /d/. Through listening and matching activities, students discriminate the phoneme /d/ from similar looking letters and phonemes. They associate the phoneme /d/ with its letter representation and identify...
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Michael Jordan
In this Michael Jordan worksheet, students read a 1 page reading on the life and basketball career of Michael Jordan. They then answer the 15 questions in the packet. The answers are located on the last page.
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Dribbling Math
Young scholars practice adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers while working on dribbling skills. They play the role of munchers and dribblers while adding, subtracting and multiplying numbers from a deck of cards.
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Freeze
Students practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing basketball defense.