UbD Planning Template
Topic: Basketball
Year Level: 9
Author: Jodie Scott
Stage 1 – Desired Results
Established Goals: By the end of this unit students will have further developed their basketball skills. Students will also explore
strategies for, appropriate times and value thinking interdependently.
HoM to be Developed:
Meaning
Thinking Interdependently
By the end of this unit of work
students will describe thinking
interdependently in both a basketball
and learning situation
(enhances the content or the process through which the unit will
be taught)
Alertness
By the end of this unit students will recognise
when to work in a group by recognising the
following signals / cues / indicators in game:
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Best shot options
Free players
When not to think interdependently
Values
By the end of this unit students will be able to:
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List the benefits of working in a team
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When the opportunity arises to use or
not to use Thinking Interdependently
students will spontaneously choose to
use this HOM in familiar contexts
Capacity
By the end of this unit students will be able to:
 Devise strategies for teams to be able to
strategically work together to improve outcomes
for both the game play and theory work.
 Team plays – specialist coach introduces
 Team plays researched by students
 Role division and assignment (theory)
Commitment
In relation to their theory
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size of the task
number of tasks
distributed expertise
Understandings about the content:
Students will understand that…
Basketball is a team sport that relies on possession and high
scoring. They will progress in their understanding of physical
skills as well as strategy, primarily related to teamwork.
Essential Questions about the content:
How does teamwork enhance performance?
How does strategy enhance performance?
Knowledge about the content
Skills required of the content
Students will know…
How to perform the various skill sets of basketball: passing,
dribbling, and shooting.
Several strategies for team plays and the benefits of cooperative
team play.
Students Will be able to…
Work with new team members cooperatively to produce a winning team.
Coach fellow classmates in cooperative basketball activities.
Each student will increase their understanding of skill and strategy in
basketball.
Stage 2 – Assessment Evidence
Performance Tasks:
Other Evidence:
Test on rules, regulations and teamwork.
Team work, both on and off the field is an important part of basketball.
Patterson River Secondary College is trying to support basketball teams
in regional areas where coaches are often hard to come by.
Your task is to demonstrate your ability to work as a team, both on and
off the court, to produce a manual for teams to use in coaching
themselves – a team player coach model.
Your team will be judged by the head coach on the following criteria:
1. Variety of warm-ups, drills and plays, both offensive and
defensive.
2. Written description of plays- fluency, spelling, grammar,
clarity of instruction
3. Explanation of when to use each play
4. Diagrams of activities
5. The teams ability to work as a team in production of the
manual
You will be asked to effectively demonstrate the strategies illustrated in
your manual in a game situation.
Stage 3 – Learning Plan
Learning Activities:
1.
Teacher directed warm-ups, skills sessions, rules and regulations, minor games and games.
a)
Run, toe-taps, knee slaps, back-to-back (new partners), Sideways race and thread the needle, chain relay
Ball skills- around body, figure 8 legs, between legs, throw & clap
Dribbling- preferred/non-preferred, hand-to-hand, between legs
Game
b)
Octopus, co-operative sit-ups, push-ups and plank hi-5.
Dribbling- walk/run, around cones, cones game (1/2 up and ½ down, 2 teams change cones), dribble knock-out, beat the basket minor game
Game
c)
Single lesson on co-operative games
Bends x 2, chain tag, triangle tag, head/butt tag, raging river (magic boots)
2.
3.
A period on ‘what does it mean to Think Interdependently?’
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How does this relate to basketball?
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How does this relate to life?
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Discuss consequences/benefits of Thinking Interdependently
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Watch clips of elite basketball plays etc.- Youtube- Basketball motivational video, What basketball means 1: teamwork and Top 10 teamwork plays of
2009
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Co-operative games- Human knots
Continue working on basketball skills
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Modify game rules- eg. Everyone needs to touch the ball before scoring
Double points for girls
Can’t score again until everyone on the team has scored
Only 2 dribbles then must pass or shoot
4.
Discuss Alertness-
When do you work/think interdependently?
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When don’t you think interdependently?
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Practice skills of lay-up, foul shooting and 3pt shooting
5.
Guest Coach- Work with students on strategies and teamwork
6.
Intro Rich Task-
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8.
Have students researching and developing their coaching manuals
Develop ‘teams’ for next 3 weeks
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Each player must coach their team (in a pair) in either a w-up, drill or team play in this time
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Teams need to show that they can put these skills into their game play – as well as take opportunities for individual plays that benefit the team.
Coaching manuals submitted at the end of the unit.
- Test on basketball rules and regulations