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So I figured we could get a collaboration going ;) I just typed out the bare bones of a unit plan. We will need to decide what kind of unit we would like to do still.....
Thanks for getting this started Kristyn. Since it is nearing the beginning of basketball season, what about tackling that? It looks like quit a few classmates have some great experience and ideas in this area. I am open to anything though.
I think that is a great idea. I enjoy basketball, but am not an expert. It will be good to be able to learn from and work with others who have more experience!
I put in a plan for day one, but its not the way i wanted it to look. everytime i go to edit the plan it looks fine, but when i save it, it jams words together and does not have the spacing i wanted.
What age group are we gearing this towards?
middle school sounds good
I'll come up with a lesson plan for shooting for day 3. Good exercises Caleb.
Dribbling, passing and shooting have been addressed within the first 3 days, what else should we address the remainder of the unit? Should we spend more than one day on each area? Maybe work on skills and technique instruction the first day and then the following day do some type of game and drill to reinforce these? So at least two days per large skill focus? I could go through and develop that follow up for the days following the three skills plans that have been developed if you guys think this is a good idea?
If you guys have room for someone else to join in I would love to add to your unit. I could add a second day for dribbling and focus on starts stops and turns. Giving an introduction and practice to direct drives, crossovers and ending dribbles with jumpstops. I find it very effective with middle school level students.
I was just about to post a new lesson plan I came up with for a dribbling game and saw this collaboration for basketball. Hope you don't mind another. Thank you so much for getting it started this Kristyn. Anyways I will post the game on as a Lesson Plan but if you wouldn't mind me joining in I would love to add to this collaboration.
It can either be played as an assessment activity or as an introductory one. It is capture the flag with basketballs. You must dribble to move and if you get tagged you have to dribble in place until you get touched by a medic. Depending on the skill level of the kids I thought more skilled, expereinced players could act as the medics and allow some basic players to shine a little and capture the flag. If you have a really good class with a few beginner players than you can have two flags one that can only be captured by beginners and one by an experienced player.
I really want to keep beginners involved especially if you are talking about middle school kids.
So if you like the idea I can add the dribbling game somewhere in the dribbling day
That's a great game for the dribbling... I say make it a lesson plan for sure! It seems like a great way to wrap up the 2 days prior of dribbling and control practice (the one that is already posted, and the one that Kristen was talking about). I will have some time this weekend and can write up a couple of plans as well for games or other skills that we might need to address still...
I will get that one posted this weekend as well. Thanks
I plan on finishing day four over the weekend. I forgot to mention that after I added the other activties last night last night :0)
My recommendations at this point include:
I posted a lesson on starts, stops,and turns as lesson 5. I wasn't sure if it should stay there or move to maybe lesson two after dribbling was introduced. What does everyone think?
are we all supposed to contribute to this basketball unit, if so I would like to add a game day to incorporate all the skills the students have learned thus far?
If you do finish with a game day at the end, make sure it somehow emphasizes the skills. Just simply throwing in some game play at the end of a unit does not necessarily emphasize the skills. In other words, playing a full game of basketball doesn't intrinsically reinforce the learned skills. Often the latter occurs, all of the learning that took place disappears when they play a game. Make sure to structure the activities so the skills are reinforced and highlighted in the culminating activity.
Hey guys =)
So I edited our objectives as suggested. I also did some moving around of lessons in order to have them progress and build more on each other. I also made just a couple tiny additions. Feel free to move the lessons around more if you think they need it.
I was wondering...
Lesson 1
What do you think about moving pig and around the world to day 6 which would be day two of shooting instruction? If you are okay with this I will use this and build the lesson out from that....
Lesson 2
What if we moved the passing portion of this to day 5 and used it to build out a second day of passing lesson? I could build that lesson out from what you have already developed on passing and the passing game you have.
I didn't want to edit anybodies lesson plans without asking or getting some input, but I was thinking those two things could be moved to better flow with the overall unit, and would be great ideas to actually build lessons from.... Let me know what you think =)
I think the overall unit seems to have a very nice start to it. I would agree with Dr. Sather about the cues being very specific. One or two words are great cues in in PE activity.
My suggestion on the written test is having the court already drawn out. We give our students similar test but there is no way they would be able to draw the court. The court is pre-drawn from Microsoft word (really easy) with lines labeled. Many of our students are more successful because they can see the court and visualize the lines. We use the b-ball court lines a lot for reference so it just makes things easier.
A good game for larger PE classes is a game called numbers. This would need to be played after the rules and a broad knowledge of basketball is established. The class is divided into two teams. One team wears jerseys and the other does not. The teacher gives each student a number. When their number is called they run onto the court and play basketball. Our kids love this game. It is fairly simple to play but fun. Equipment needed: Gym with b-ball hoops, one basketball, 20 jerseys. If you have a really large class you can break them into two different groups and have two games going on the side hoops.
I like the unit and think you are on the right track.
I added on Day 6 for shooting and elaborated more on the instructions for shooting. I explained what Beef is because I think it's a good, simple method to use and it's easy to teach the kids.
I added a passing activity for day 5.
Love how in depth it gets! Keep it up! Dont forget the Evaluation of the Unit though
I like the test on Day 12. I added 3 on 3 half court as Day 11 so we could see what carryover they had from drills to play but yet it wasn't a complete 5 on 5 full court. Anyone have ideas for a lesson 10? Maybe a rebounding, fastbreaking drill, or transition lesson? I also added my references for both my lessons at the bottom. Should whoevers lesson 7 is with pig and around the world add more to their lesson like teaching cues, objectives, and maybe a warmup? Just an idea.