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REVIEW BASKETBALL
Students write questions from a text or resource. They play in teams and ask questions of the other team. If a team answers correctly, they may "shoot" for an additional point by answering another question.
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The Basketball Tournament
Young scholars estimate how many games are played if six teams play each other once. They investigate their own way and discuss possible strategies they might use. They then share their findings with the class.
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Dribble The Basketball
Learners 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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Scale Basketball
Students discuss scale diagrams and maps as well as the use of spreadsheets to find the best scale to use in a model before practicing scale and ratio problems on their own.
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Conquistador
Eighth graders, after a warm up involving a professional basketball player playing a game against fifteen fifth graders, describe what a conquistador is and how they were able to take over the ancient Indian empires found in the...
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Let's Play Some Ball!
Pupils review horizontal and vertical shifts of a parabola and how they effect a specific quadratic formula. They play a basketball review game in which they try to find the right quadratic equation for a given problem in order to earn...
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Shooting Baskets- Relay Game
Students play a game. In this basketball skills instructional activity, students work in teams to see whose players can all make a basket the quickest.
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Cars
Students will construct model cars with a given set of materials. In this technology lesson, students work in cooperative groups to problem solve and create a car that can travel the distance of a basketball court.
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Realistic Fiction
Explore the characteristics of realistic fiction by reading and then analyzing the book, Allie’s Basketball Dream by Barbara E. Barber. Using the I do, we do, you do model, learners practice identifying realistic fiction based on how...
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Spelling Bee Shoot Out
Students practice basketball shooting skills, spelling, and group cooperation skills. They review the proper techniques of shooting, passing, and rebounding in basketball. They should also be familiar with the spelling words used in the...
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Alex Schlotsky: "Full Court Miracle"
Students view a film about a young man on a basketball team who is tired of being called a loser. They examine Jewish traditions as the young man in the film relates to his hertitage. They also examine the holiday of Chanukah.
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How Far Can You Throw?
Sixth graders take a turn throwing the basketball and softball. They measure the distance in feet and inches between the starting and landing points of the balls. The recorder will record the distance each ball was thrown next to each...
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Hot Potato
Students practice throwing using scarves, beanbags, yarn balls, playground balls, gator balls, junior basketballs, etc., switching until they have thrown all of the equipment.
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Computing Mean, Mode and Median
Ninth graders collect data on basketball player's heights and determine the mean, median, and mode for the data.
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Turkey Hunt Obstacle Course
Students participate with a fleece ball. Each target can be thrown at only once per round. After the throw the student recovers the ball and moves to the next obstacle. The student puts the fleece ball away, picks up the basketball and...
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Jingle Bell Bounce
Pupils attempt to dribble the basketball in a predetermined sequence. After practicing several dribbling techniques, the game begins. This process should emulate the Jingle Bells song set music.
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Paraphrase/Summarize Relay
Fifth graders internalize the ability to recall, inform, or organize ideas when comprehending text. Students practice paraphrasing/summarizing by taking it to the playground. Students line up with 4B5 feet on each side of the group,...
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Community Search
Students, as a class, brainstorm a list of possible jobs in the community to explore. Working in teams of two (writer and photographer), students choose their interview assignments-e.g., preacher, principal, basketball coach, postmaster,...
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Making The Height
Twelfth graders apply estimation techniques to determine how high any one basketball player can jump.
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Race Track
Students, in groups, are spaced evenly around the gymnasium. Each group is under a basketball basket. Each team runs one lap around the race track. when he/she gets home, hand the ring to the next person who runs.
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Turkey Hunt Obstacle Course
Students play a game. They will be the turkeys. The rest of the students stand on the basketball court sidelines with yarn balls. They are the hunters. The turkeys try to make it through the forest without getting hit. If they get hit...
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High Five Lay-ups
Young scholars move about the general space in the gym pretending to dribble and shoot a basketball. Two students are designed as taggers who "Freeze" other players with their hand HIGH in the air. Young scholars who are not frozen must...
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Tigger Tag
Students play a game of tag in an area about the size of a basketball court. They must walk as a "Tigger" and "Pooh" walk in their midst. When students are tagged by Tiggers, they must sit down. When they are tagged by Pooh, students...
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Parabolas in Flight
Students utilize a trajectory formula in order to discover the physics of a thrown ball. For this physics lesson, students videotape the trajectory of a thrown ball or basketball shot and analyze the action by breaking the video down...
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