G5 Ethics in Sports through the Physical Education Learning Lens of Basketball

The G5 Basketball Unit will have a conceptual focus on Ethics in Sports, particularly Sportsmanship vs. Gamesmanship.

Taken from my conceptual map for Primary Physical Education

Burning Questions on Basketball

What do the students want to know about this sport?

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Using the questions above will help give direction/content when constructing the sequence of lessons within the unit.

But what do they understand by Ethics? Particularly the concepts of Sportsmanship vs. Gamesmanship...

I asked the following question:

What do you know and understand about Sportsmanship vs. Gamesmanship?

The student showed that the majority have an understanding of what is Sportsmanship/ Gamesmanship. Interestingly what the exercise did highlight was some common misconceptions between Sportsmanship, Gamesmanship and something else?

What are the G5s misconceptions about what is Sportsmanship/Gamesmanship?

1. Don't care if you win or lose

2. Not sharing the ball

3. Fun (Gamesmanship was deemed to be fun, and Sportsmanship wasn't)

4. Caring for the other team

5. Being competitive (if you show sportsmanship you are not being competitive?!)

6. Giving the other team a chance... (I guess I can see the logic in this one (e.g. not beating the other team 100,000 - 0))

7. It is when you are less competitive?!

8. Play as a team/Teamwork

9. Working together not playing to win (I guess there is a kinda logic there... The idea of playing for fun and not competitively)

Reexamining the others...

It is really important if the students are going to develop into a good sportsman/woman that they understand that if you follow the code of sportsmanship you do play competitively, have fun, strive for the best you can be (even if it's not winning), and you do care if you win or you lose, and if you lose, you do it graciously, but you learn from the experience and come back stronger next time and if you win you don't rub it in your opponents faces.

What the G5s did agree upon as examples of Sportsmanship and Gamesmanship

Addressing the Misconceptions

 

Two Key Questions

Why don't the remaining statements (the misconceptions) fit into either categories?

Can you think of other categories that some of these misconceptions would have a better fit?

Using Video Delay Feedback on the Set Shot and Jump Shot 

Some Truly Honest and Great Reflections from G5 

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?"

Grade 3: Exploring the Role of Ethics in Sport Through the Lens of Football

Exploring the Role of Ethics in Sport