Basketball - Increasing Dribbling Skills

A helpful description of a few drills to work on dribbling and passing. The drills can be incorporated into a lesson plan, and are geared toward working with those who are hearing impaired. There are some key aspects of each drill to...

A fun way to practice basketball dribbling skills with young learners. This game is played like musical chairs. Spread out hula hoops, polyspots, or cones all around the gym. Then give each player a ball to practice dribbling. When the...

Looking for a fun drill to practice basketball dribbling skills? Here's one that looks like fun - sharks and swimmers. Swimmers are the players who are practicing their dribbling skills and trying to navigate around the sharks to get...

Students practice and improve their dribbling skills in a game-like situation, by dribbling through a maze.

Students practice proper dribbling skills and work on identifying invertebrates as one of four major types.

In this instructional activity, Nine Court Basketball, students experiment with different basketball skills. Students practice guarding, dribbling, passing, and shooting with the basketball. Students gain an understanding of basic...

Students learn vowel patterns, homophones, and other tricky reading skills. They have to dribble their basketball different ways throughout the gym to the correct hoop, shoot, and return to their space. Switch with another student and...

Students work on dribbling with either hand. They follow directions and the rhythm of the music. Students dance to the Cha-Cha slide according to its directions and they add the dribble of the bbasketball with the number of "stomps."

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.

Young scholars play a game.  In this basketball skills lesson, students practice dribbling the ball and switching balls without double dribbling.  Young scholars play a basketball game where they practice their skills.