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Boundary Ball-Basketball

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore basketball with a twist. In this basketball lesson, 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 the...
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Basketball Relay

For Teachers 1st - 6th
Students 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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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...
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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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Basketball Spelling

For Teachers 4th - 7th
In this basketball spelling worksheet, students 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 and take...
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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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Basketball Dribbling Activities

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars develop the skills of dribbling a basketball while practicing various types of drills. The teacher helps the them to complete various drills through modeling and supervises successful completion and demonstration of skills.
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Basketball Passing

For Teachers 2nd
Second graders practice dribbling and passing a basketball. They also learn the correct finger position for dribbling and how to place their feet when passing.
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Basketball

For Teachers 9th - 12th Standards
Tap into the competitive nature of teenagers as your class practices setting up and solving rational equations. This activity starts with a specific ratio of games won to games played, then asks how many more games must be played to...
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University of Colorado

The Jovian Basketball Hoop

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Can you listen to Jupiter on a simple radio? Turns out the answer is yes! The resource instructs scholars to build a simple radio to pick up the radio waves created when the charged particles from the sun hit Jupiter's magnetic...
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Space Jam Dilemma/Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Do the "Space Jam" Dance! A dance that is made up of basketball skills movements, such as: dribbling, defending with hands up, pivoting, shooting, and slam dunks. The dance step descriptions are very well written out with cues for...
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Space Jam Dance

For Teachers 3rd - 6th
Do the "Space Jam" dance! A dance that is made up of basketball skills movements, such as: dribbling, defending with hands up, pivoting, shooting, and slam dunks. The dance step descriptions are very well written out with cues for...
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Basketball/Tumbling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students play basketball games and show knowledge of offense and defense. In this basketball lesson plan, students also answer short answer questions about offense and defense.
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Georgia Department of Education

Exploring Poetry and Poets

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Combine the study of poetry and non-fiction texts with this complete and ready-to-use six-week unit. After reading numerous poems from local writers and compiling a personal anthology, high schoolers find and read a memoir or biography...
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Basketball: Number Sense

For Teachers 3rd
Third graders explore their addition and subtraction skills. In this number sense lesson, 3rd graders analyze different scoring possibilities for a basketball game. This lesson incorporates the use a video titled "Blossom and...
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Creating and Destroying Symmetry

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students study the types of symmetry that appear in different basketball symbols. They point out changes that rotate symmetry from one type to another.
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100 Balls

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars perform locomotor skills such as throwing balls while counting up to 100. In this 100th day of school physical education lesson, the students play a Hungry, Hungry Hippos game to perform the throwing technique. There are...
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States and Capitals Activity

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
Students explore states and capitals.  In this U.S. geography lesson, students practice locomotor skills playing Freeze Tag. Students generate the matching capital when given a specific state name in order to continue the game.
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Sponge Bob Day!

For Teachers K - 2nd
Young scholars explore and practice a variety of motor skills. In this physical education movement lesson, students rotate between 6 stations. Each station provides a Sponge Bob related activity which requires the children to use fine...
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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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Lincoln Avenue Basketball

For Teachers 6th - 12th
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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Basketball- Dribbling

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Students practice several different basketball dribbling techniques on their own, with partners and as a team. They warm up with spot drills and figure eight dribbles and end the session with a dribbling relay race.
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Basketball - Shooting

For Teachers 7th - 9th
Students practice dribbling a basketball. They perform activities requiring walking, running, use of left and right hand. Students explore proper posture when dribbling. They experience the art of a progressive cross over. Students...
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Shapes and Review of Locomotor Skills

For Teachers 2nd - 3rd
Students engage in a series of loco-motor activities based on shapes. In this loco-motor lesson, students demonstrate physical skills through races, jumping, hopping, galloping in circles, squares, rectangles and triangles.

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