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How to Study Basketball in Your Classroom
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Kids love playing basketball, so why not introduce a basketball thematic unit into your classroom? During this unit the kids will learn to skip count by 2's, even and odd numbers, basketball vocabulary and a ton of gross motor skills. They will love this unit! Here are some ways to teach it.
Buy the kids headbands from a website like Oriental Trading Co. (see Resources below) and divide them up into teams.
Build a little basketball court in the classroom and have the kids keep score on wipe boards while counting by 2's.
Play Mystery Word with basketball vocabulary (see link in Resources below).
Have the kids create cool team signs.
Create basketball word searches.
Buy some great basketball books for kids.
Create basketball cutting exercises for the kids to do.
Play Reverse Mystery Word with basketball teams and vocabulary.
Have the kids do basketball art.
Take the kids on a field trip to your local college women's basketball game. It is not as expensive as it sounds!
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iheartschool said
on 2/25/2008 Those kids are so cute and those are such great ideas that Kurt has!