G4 Questions and Wonderings on Basketball - Basketball in Action - Reflections

G4 Questions and Wonderings on Basketball
The exercise is about discovering G4s prior knowledge in basketball. The year group has a wide range of knowledge and skill, stretching from the novice through to the student who plays for a club.

What next?
It is important for me to answer the novices questions, whilst developing their skills, but it is equally important to make sure the more experienced players develop within the game at the same time.

The question, wonderings and statements below will help develop the units essential question(s) and give the unit direction for all stakeholders involved.

Basketball in Action

I love these genuine moments of peer coaching; my G4s helping one another master the set-shot.

Reflections

G2 Questions & Wonderings on Basketball - Basketball in Action - Introducing New Technology - Reflections

G2 Questions & Wonderings on Basketball
We are half way through a 12 lesson cycle of invasion games in G2. The first 6 lessons have been playing bench ball, working on pivoting, passing and receiving, learning how to get away from a defender and being ready to receive, denying an attacker space and developing our communication skills both verbal and non-verbal.

The second half of the unit is mini basketball, which carries over all the skills learnt in bench ball and adds in dribbling and shooting.

To start the unit off my G2 classes have had a chance to put their "questions and wonderings" on the wall... These will guide me in developing the units essential questions, the areas of basketball the students are interested in following, and any questions I need to answer.

Basketball in Action

Introducing New Technology 
Drip feeding it into the lessons

Whilst it is always good to receive instant visual feedback on a skill at any age, the main concept behind introducing the G2s to the iPad and the video delay app was to get them used to seeing themselves projected up on the wall.

I discovered when first introducing this technology with the G4s and G5s it took at least a couple of lessons for them to get over the excitement of seeing themselves on TV. Yet, once all the excitement was over, using the video delay, having the students receive instant visual feedback has proven invaluable to the lessons and for the students who wished to use it.

 

Unit Reflections

Grade 3: The Relationships Between the Effectiveness of Team Play and the Sporting Level of A Team (Football & Ethics in Sport)

Linked to: Grade 3 Questions, Puzzles, Wonderings and Statements on Ethics in Sport (Football)

The above link was created by the students of Grade 3 at the start of the unit. Now the unit is coming to an end I have chosen a couple of relevant questions (below) generated by that first exercise on ethics that hopefully the students can answer themselves.

Please note: All questions have been reproduced in the students own words.

I moved some of the answers into a table to make them easier to read! The answers below are ripe for discussion when we revisit the concept of ethics in sport next school year. Particularly when we examine the concept of relationships in team sports.

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Grade 3 Questions, Puzzles, Wonderings and Statements on Ethics in Sport (Football)

To help start the debate, example questions that were given included:

"Is winning everything? Or does everyone deserve a trophy?"

"It's only cheating if you get caught?"

Tuning In - Finding Out - Sorting Out. An Inquiry into Inquiry

Here are the complete steps for the beginning stages of Kath Murdoch's Inquiry Cycle.

The Concept is 'Team Sports', and we are starting the cycle with a 5-a-side Football unit.

The Final Boards - Grade 5B & 5E

and Grade 4B & 4E

Questions - Puzzles - Wonderings