Basketball Lesson Plan

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March 13, 2007
This year, the Men's NCAA Basketball Tournament, better known as March Madness, starts today. Read about the history of basketball here: http://www.helium.com/tm/210038/basketball-invented-james-naismith

Discussion Questions:
1. Who invented basketball?
2. What college was it invented at?
3. What colleges first played basketball competitively?

Learn more about March Madness here: http://www.helium.com/tm/210042/march-madnessit-basketball-tournament

Discussion Questions:
1. What is a seed?
2. Why is it called March Madness?

Vocabulary
Learn some common basketball terms: http://homepages.wmich.edu/~j5lieber/getmovingplayball.htm#Definitions
English
Write a compare and contrast essay comparing Basketball to Soccer. Use this site to help you:
http://www.geocities.com/fifth_grade_tpes/compare_contrast.html

Try this word search http://www.lessontutor.com/bballword1.html

Basketball word scramble http://bogglesworldesl.com/basketball_worksheets.htm

Math
Visit this website to learn about calculating Free-throw Percentages http://score.kings.k12.ca.us/lessons/robin/winedge/startpg.html

Email me at kellys3ps@sbcglobal.net with your 5 player pick to earn 10 bonus math challenge tickets!


Do you have what it takes to manage an NBA team? Find out here: http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~bmoore2/basketball/intro.htm

Don’t Forget the Math Challenge!
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