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Bounce With Me

For Teachers 9th - 10th
How many practice lay-ups do you think Michael Jordan has done in his lifetime? Too many to count, but he had to start somewhere! Practice is the key to getting better in any activity. Look through this basketball lesson as there are...
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Writing
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Lin at Home and Abroad

For Students 6th - 8th
What is so amazing about Jeremy Lin? Read the following New York Times article and find out. The article and 13 comprehension questions regarding this basketball super star are awaiting your eager readers. 
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Shooting Basketball Stars

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Lessons that have a little competition built into the skills drills because it helps the players focus more on what they should be practicing. Players practice lay-ups, mid-distance shots and long-range shots. They collect stars of...
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ACC Basketball Statistics

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers use math skills and create a spreadsheet. In this statistics and computer skills activity, students gather ACC basketball statistics, convert fractions to decimals and then percents. Middle schoolers use the gathered...
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Playing Vocabulary Basketball

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners view a slide show featuring famous athletes and educational institutions that have played a part in the history of basketball. They participate in a game in which a basketball is tossed from person to person as facts and...
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Penny Basketball: Making Sense of Data

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Explore four web-based interactive sites to develop a baseline understanding of statistics. Learners play a series of penny basketball games and collect data regarding their shooting statistics. Groups decide who is the "top" penny...
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Mr Gym

Basketball Chicken Fights

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
The goal in this activity is to maintain control dribbling one's own basketball while trying to knock away another players basketball. The last player standing, wins. This activity will definitely help young learners practice dribbling...
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Basketball Rebounds

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Your young basketball players will build a table and develop a general formula for a decaying exponential scenario involving the rebound distance of a bouncing ball. Using a CBR and graphing calculator can make this even more hands-on...
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Mr Gym

Mass Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 12th
Form six teams, each with a basketball, beanbags, and pinnies. The goal of this game is to score a basket at each of your opponents' baskets, and to guard your own basket to prevent your opponents from scoring. Each team will have...
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Basketball Bounces, Assessment Variation 2

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This un-scaffold summative assessment tasks learners to use the height of a bouncing basketball, given the data in graph and table form, to choose the model that is represented. Learners then use the model to answer questions about the...
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Basketball Bounces, Assessment Variation 1

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
This highly scaffolded, summative assessment tasks learners to choose the model that represents the height of a bouncing basketball given the data in graph and table form. Learners then use the model to answer questions about the...
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Basketball, Dribble Tag

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students work with the teacher one group at a time, spreading out and with a basketball, practice dribbling with the music that is playing in the background. After they dribble with their dominate hand, they switch hands and do the same...
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Nine Court Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Students play a team sport. In this basketball lesson, students learn the nine areas of a basketball court and practice dribbling, passing and shooting without leaving their area.
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Worksheet
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Basketball Crossword

For Students 5th - 6th
In this basketball crossword worksheet, students read 15 clues that pertain to the sport of basketball. Students fit their answers in a crossword. There is no word bank for this challenging puzzle.
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Boundary Ball-Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Learners explore basketball with a twist. In this basketball lesson plan, students practicing their dribbling, passing and shooting skills. They play a version of basketball where there are three people on the court from each team and...
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Basketball

For Teachers K - 5th
Students are able to practice dribbling and passing a basketball. They complete lay-up, set shots ans jump shots. Students play a game of basketball against each other. They are evaluated at the end of the basketball unit.
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Worksheet
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Basketball Picture

For Students K - 2nd
In this basketball worksheet, students color the picture of a basketball and trace and write the word "Basketball". Students trace, write, and color 1 time each.
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Basketball Relay

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Pupils split into teams and have a relay that requires them to dribble while running. In this basketball lesson plan, students dribble a ball up to a certain point and come back to their team. The first team to have all their players...
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Mathalicious

Three Shots

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
To foul or not to foul, that is the basketball question. High schoolers look at the probability that fouling out a player and allowing free throws yields a better outcome than allowing the original shot. The resource provides a teacher's...
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Basketball Spelling

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this basketball spelling worksheet, young scholars study, discuss and analyze a list of spelling words, fill in missing letters in words, complete sentences with basketball terms, unscramble ten terms, complete a word search puzzle...
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Fantasy Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students play Fantasy Basketball in order to practice locating Internet information and using technology tools to display data; students demonstrate an understanding and use of graphing, probability, and statistics.
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Worksheet
National Security Agency

Go One-on-One with Decimals

For Students 4th - 5th Standards
Shoot and score with three basketball-themed lessons about decimals. Young mathematicians compare game statistics, make trash can hoops, and play a data spinner game to practice identifying digits and values within decimal numbers.
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EngageNY

Using Quotes and Comparing and Contrasting Structure: The Invention of Basketball

For Teachers 5th Standards
Learners complete the third instructional activity in a row where they determine the gist of text and use quotes as textual evidence. They use details from Dr. James Naismith, Inventor of Basketball to explain how the development of...
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Radford University

Basketball Math

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Shoot for a better knowledge of optimization strategies. During the first part of the task, scholars use given basketball shooting percentages for different players to predict the winner by examining systems of inequalities. For the...

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