If you are in charge of coaching a young elementary school basketball team that is geared towards students in kindergarten through second grade, a large part of your practice should be focused on allowing the kids to handle the ball in a fun, supportive environment. At this age, your players just need to learn how to become comfortable with a basketball. Here are a few fun basketball handling challenges that are aimed towards very young players.
#1 Going Up The Stairs
One of the keys to engaging young players is to actively engage their imagination as well. For this exercise, start out by asking your players to imagine that they are walking up and down a set of stairs. Have them practice sinking low to the ground as they go down the stairs, and reaching up to their toes as they go up the stairs. After you have practiced that portion a few time, it is time to add
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It should also increase your student’s ball handling skills at the same time.
#2 Yo-Yo Ball
For this drill, you are going to ask your players to imagine that the ball is a yo-you and that their is an invisible string attached to their hand. You may even want to show your students a real yo-yo and demonstrate how you can use your hand to control how the ball moves up and down.
Then, show your students how to treat the ball like a yo-you. Have them practice bouncing the ball up really high in the air, and then have them practice bouncing it with really small, short, quick bounces. Encourage your kids to try to get the ball to “yo-yo” back up to their hands.
If your students master this drill, you can have them try doing the yo-yo while walking forward. That should increase the challenge of the activity while also teaching your young players how to walk and dribble. For a little bit of silly fun, have them try to walk backwards and do the yo-yo as
The Laugh and Learn™ Learning Basketball is a developmental toy designed by Fisher-Price. Essentially the toy is a basketball hoop as well as corresponding stand that will adjust as the child grows, and is recommended by the website for ages six to thirty-six months. Additionally, the basketball hoop has the numbers one through five on it, as well as automated hands and a face which smiles as it plays one of twelve possible songs. The basketball toy is made out of a hard plastic and it includes every color of the basic rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, purple and blue) The toy is also equipped with two smaller basketballs (which are not as rigid as their life-sized counterparts) which the child can put through the hoop and collect on the base. Largely, the toy plays educational songs, allows the child to put the ball through the hoop and interact with the hands, numbers and the backboard of the basketball hoop.
Kids just want to have fun. In a bygone era, parents wanted kids to play sports for fun and camaraderie. However, a new attitude is developing among coaches and parents, which is mopping-up fun from youth sports. Now it's all about the team and the game. The team must win the game at any cost.
-4 steps of Obstacle course for 10 rounds : knee walking, jumping on the trampoline and crashing on the pillow for 10 counts, picking puzzle pieces, crawling on the mat and placing the puzzle pieces on the puzzle board and walking to the speech therapist to read buddy bear book to improve motor planning and coordination, work behaviors, problem solving, attention, body awareness as well as provides sensory input.
This drill will teach players to constantly look up-field to move the ball, be aware of the location of the ball at all time, challenge your defense to cut off passing routes, create quick transitions, and generate faster, and more effective game play.
The tactical games model is an instructional method for a physical education class, the outline for a tactical game unit is set up as follows. The first step in any Tactical games model is to choose a sport for the class to play, team sports such as basketball or soccer typically work best for this model because they present the players with more tactical situations. Rather than full sized games your class will benefit more from smaller groups and faster paced games, any tactical issues a student is having during the sport will become more apparent this way and therefore easier to address (Pill). Additional adaptations can be made to manipulate the sport to your classes needs such as dimensions of the field, player’s movements, and the games rules (Pill).The Focus of game one is to put your students into challenging situations, by being challenged in the first game the students see areas they are lacking tactical experience. As the teacher your objective during game one is to iden...
The ball must be held by the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it.
Step one is how to grip the ball, so on your grip you have the ball in your hand then you put your index finger on the ball next you put your middle finger on the ball also your other fingers if you don't get it your thumb should be underneath the ball in between your two fingers up top your pinky should not be in contact with the baseBall should be held out toward the fingertips as much as possible
John wooden a former player and later became a basketball coach once said. “A coach much never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.” Basketball has been something in our everyday lives for a while. To allot it something they just can't live without and others just choose to not even bother with it. I think that it is worth the time to look more into basketball. Basketball can be started at a elementary school level, and they can usually go to sign up at local boys and girls clubs maybe at their school if they offer it and can even join through their church if they attend one and they offer it to them. Being a coach seems easy to most parents but it really isn't how it isn't is a coach must ensure that players
This topic paper discusses the book Teaching the Nuts and Bolts of Physical Education, which was published in 2008. The accompanying CD-ROM with sample lesson plans was not provided with the book. This book is really a guide to teaching 17 manipulative and 8 locomotor skills that children ages 5 to 12 will learn in physical education class. I will briefly discuss a couple of these skills with a suggested activity. This is a handy guide for a future physical education teacher. There are drawings and steps for each skill and key words or “cues” are also given. Finally, there are “troubleshooting” tips provided to use when a child is not performing the skill correctly and suggestions for practice activities to help children learn the skill. Truly this is a “nuts and bolts” book. It is really more of an instruction manual. I will begin with the skills taught in the book.
So, in case you ever find yourself playing basketball, remember to use the correct form, have the proper stance, jump, and follow through. Now that you know all of the steps to shooting a basket all you have to do is put them together. Set your hands, feet, jump, and follow through. It might feel different at first, but the more you practice the more natural it will feel and the better you will
Based on my observation, the infants have interests in play balls. Many older infants already could say “Ball” very clear. I will provide middle size soft rubber balls and small basketball hoop to support the children to practice throw balls into the hoop.
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... score. Although when you are unguarded and trying to move the ball down court, use forward a little and bend your knees slightly as if running. The hand that controls the ball should have fingers spread wide. Your other hand should be at your side for balance. Always look straight ahead while dribbling. While dribbling always keep alert for a teammate you can pass to. At the same time try to keep an opponent from getting too near the ball. To keep your opponent from getting possession of the ball, use the low dribble. When you are crouching, keep the ball close to the floor, bouncing it easily as you move around.
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