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Every-Day Edit: Basketball's Beginnings

For Students 3rd - 8th
In this everyday editing worksheet, students correct grammatical mistakes in a short paragraph about basketball's beginnings. The errors range from capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and grammar.
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Basketball: Jargon, Fouls, and Synonyms

For Students 2nd - 6th
In this basketball worksheet, students solve a word search puzzle by locating thirty-five basketball terms. The terms include synonyms for the word "foul."
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3-Catch Basketball

For Teachers 5th - 7th
Students complete a 3-catch basketball activity to improve their basketball skills. In this basketball skills instructional activity, students participate in a 3-catch basketball activity with defense.
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Wordsearch: Basketball

For Students 1st - 5th
For this basketball worksheet, students fill out a wordsearch that has basketball terms. Students find 20 words that have to do with basketball.
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Lesson Plan: Using Maps and Scales to Get to the Basketball Hall of Fame

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students view a quicktime video of basketball players going from Atlanta to Springfield, Mass. In this scaling instructional activity, students use a map to calculate the distance of the trip and the length of travel time. Students apply...
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Shoot the Bacon!

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Delight your young athletes by leading this fun twist on a classic blacktop PE game.
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Moving to Open Space in Basketball Assessment

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Students evaluate each other playing in a basketball lead-up activity for about 3 minutes or so.
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Basketball Court Word Challenge

For Students 3rd - 6th
In this word challenge game worksheet, students list as many words as they can from the letters in the words basketball and court. The worksheet includes 14 hints for words the students may use.
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Roundball for Remembrance

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Students view a segment of Futures With Jaime Escalante showing the application of math in basketball, and they try to find some of these applications in a tape of a game played by their home school. This fun lesson should be very...
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Following Instructions

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Use this simple plan to teach your physical education class how to make a jump shot in basketball. It includes an introduction, objectives, methods, and more!
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Basketball: All the Angles Word Search

For Students 5th - 6th
In this angles word search, students find a set of 22 words related to basketball, then find the words that are synonyms for the word "angle." Page has links to additional resources.
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Reading Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners 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...
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Hard Work Beats Talent

For Teachers 5th - 12th
Enlarge it, print it, laminate it, and post this picture of professional basketball players to remind kids that even pros practice daily. And check out that vertical leap!
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Basketball for Better Verse

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Students listen to and read stories about basketball. They write poetry about basketball.
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H.O.R.S.E.

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Extend your lesson on Christopher Myers' H.O.R.S.E with a series of activities about basketball. After kids read the book, they match basketball terms with their definitions, find as many words as they can with the letters H, O, R, S,...
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Decimal Baseball

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Young mathematicians represent recorded information in decimal form. In this decimals lesson, learners play a "classroom friendly" basketball game in which pupils take 10 shots. Number of shots made out of 10 is recorded as a fraction...
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Everyone's Playing Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
To foster number sense and build problem solving skills, pupils will work through a complex word problem. They will be asked to analyze the data given, solve the problem, then share their thinking process with the class. This activity...
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Robot Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 12th Standards
Hold a free-throw shooting challenge in your engineering class! Each team must design a contraption that will fire off a "robot arm" or, more specifically, a catapult, to send a Ping-Pong ball into a basket. Use this as an opportunity to...
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Basketball As A Context for Percentages

For Teachers 5th - 8th
Students investigate fractions as percentages when associated with basketball. In this fraction and percentages lesson plan, students watch a video clip that includes mathematical information about women's basketball presented in...
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Playing in the Snow

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students practice dribbling and passing skills. In this basketball skills instructional activity, students rotate through a series of winter-themed stations with a partner and practice dribbling while jumping low hurdles, dribbling...
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Socketball

For Teachers 4th - 5th
Young scholars build dribbling and passing skills. In this passing skills 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 into the...
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Math "Hoop-la"

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
Students study the meaning of and the differences between mean, median, and mode. They apply their knowledge of mean, median, and mode to a real-life scenario using a basketball and a hoop.
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Internet Research in Physical Education

For Teachers 4th - 8th
Students take an active role for their own exploration. They are given the tools that enable them to find information about a specific topic on their own. Students choose from the different units that they have studied at the time:...
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Rocketsmania And Slope

For Teachers 5th - 8th
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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