LESSON OUTCOMES:
- Demonstrate basic dribble.
- Protect the basketball with a non-dribbling arm.
- Develop cardiovascular endurance, agility, and eye-hand coordination.
EQUIPMENT
- 1 basketball per student
- Containers (barrels) or cart to hold basketballs
BEFORE CLASS SET UP:
Place basketball containers in different corners of the play space.
HEALTH-RELATED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Dribble Tag (10 minutes)
- Playspace is a basketball court (add a second court if too crowded).
- Designate 4 students as “taggers;” they wear bibs.
- Each student (including taggers) has a basketball and is dribbling.
- On your signal, taggers attempt to tag as many students as possible without losing control of their basketballs. If a tagger tags without control of the basketball, the tag doesn’t count.
- If dribbler is tagged, the student must dribble around outside of the court one time.
- If dribbler loses control of the basketball, the student must dribble around outside of court one time.
- Continue for 2 minutes then change taggers.
Add taggers if the students are not active enough.
ACTIVITY #1: Direction Challenge
- Students are to follow your directional movements while dribbling basketballs.
- Move forward, backward, left, right, zigzag, etc.
- No verbal directional commands are given. They should watch your movements.
- As skills improve, make movements faster and more difficult.
ACTIVITY #2: Knock-Out
- Either half-court, full-court, or multiple courts are utilized according to class size.
- Each student has a basketball.
- On your signal, students dribble with the dominant hand, moving within the court and trying to knock the basketballs away from other students.
- Students protect their basketballs with movement and with a non-dribbling arm.
- If basketball is knocked away, or the student loses control of basketball, the student must exit area, and dribble the basketball once around the outside of the court before re-entering the game.
COOL DOWN/ CLOSURE
Review Skill/Activity, stretching, and questions.
