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Group Size: 
Any size
Age Group: 
Grades 1-2
Age Group: 
Grades 3-5
Length of Activity: 
10 minutes or more
Developmental Goal: 
To provide an opportunity to practice the basic skills for traditional basketball.
Equipment: 
Basketballs
Equipment: 
Chalk
Equipment: 
Cones
Before You Start: 

Skills Practiced: Shooting, rebounding and catching.

Equipment needed: One Basketball, a basketball hoop, and chalk or cones.

 

  • Explain the rules of the game.
  • Demonstrate how a player moves to the next marker and shoots again after a successful shot.
  • Demonstrate how a player, after missing their shot, moves under the basket and rebounds the ball for the next player.
  • Ask the students to explain the game back to you.

 

Set Up: 
Place cones or chalk marks around the perimeter of the key (area near the hoop).
How To Play: 
  • Line players up behind first cone/chalk mark.
  • The first student (#1) shoots from the first spot. If s/he makes the basket, s/he advances and shoots from the next spot. The same player continues around the markers until a basket is missed.
  • After #1 misses, s/he goes under the basket and rebounds the ball for player #2.
  • Player #2 rebounds the ball for player #3, etc. 
  • Player #1 returns to the end of the line.
  • When all other players have had turns, Player #1 returns to the last place s/he made a basket and continues as before from that spot.
  • A player is finished when s/he has successfully made baskets all the way around the court.
Variations: 
  • Once a player makes it all the way around, they have to go backwards around the circuit.