A gold mine of basketball dribbling drills! There are an assorted variety of drills here to keep those players busy. Some involve cooperation, some competition, but all of them are about practicing dribbling.

Take mathematics to the hoop! Pairs first measure the linear distances on a basketball court. Using those measurements, they determine the scale lengths to create a scaled model. To finish the activity, learners create models of the...

Shoot and score with three basketball-themed lessons about decimals. Young mathematicians compare game statistics, make trash can hoops, and play a data spinner game to practice identifying digits and values within decimal numbers.

What is so amazing about Jeremy Lin? Read the following New York Times article and find out. The article and 13 comprehension questions regarding this basketball super star are awaiting your eager readers. 

A fast and fun way to practice shooting basketball. Small cooperative groups help each other tally up the most baskets made in a certain period of time. There are a couple ideas included to increase or decrease the difficulty of the...

Do your kids love football? Discuss goals for your class or for the future with a book template shaped like a football. Kids write down their goals and use the pattern to create a book.

Which is a better sport: soccer or basketball? Upper elementary writers will love arguing over their favorite sports. Consider asking the class what their favorite sports are before assigning this sheet and editing the choices as needed....

The class practices bounce passes and chest passes to improve their basketball skills. They get to play a modified basketball game with no dribbling allowed. You could incorporate several modifications into this lesson to accomodate...

I would use this basketball shuttle run activity as one of several drills in a days instructional activity. There are several components to the drill and some lead up activities could be done before the basketball shuttle run. I would...

Students practice dribbling a basketball.  In this basketball relay lesson, students learn to dribble a basketball, control a basketball and move quickly with a basketball.  Students split into two teams and play a game where...

In this math worksheet, students solve 25 basic addition facts below 20. Using the sums and the key to the code, students decipher a secret message about basketball.

Students figure out basic percentages by shooting paper balls into a basket, recording results, and calculating individual and team percentages for ten shots.

Students play a team sport. In this basketball instructional activity, students learn the nine areas of a basketball court and practice dribbling, passing and shooting without leaving their area.

Students split into teams and have a relay that requires them to dribble while running. In this basketball lesson plan, students dribble a ball up to a certain point and come back to their team. The first team to have all their players...

Students explore basketball with a twist. For this basketball lesson, students practicing their dribbling, passing and shooting skills. They play a version of basketball where there are three people on the court from each team and the...

For this sports puzzle, students identify the names of sports, such as soccer, football, skating and fencing. A list of approximately 18 words is provided for students to locate.

Students are introduced to the basics about zone defense in basketball. In groups, they practice this technique to turn away from gravitating to the ball handler. They also complete non-bounce passes and examine how to move without a...

Students practice proper technique for shooting a basketball set shot and jump shot by playing a game similar to golf, but using a basketball and basketball hoops.

Students use a professional basketball team's data and graph it on a coordinate plane. They draw a line of regression and finding its equation. They access a website containing statistics for the Houston Rockets basketball team to solve...

Learners participate in a basketball shooting activity modelled after miniature golf.

Students get in a defensive position and move around any student dribbling a basketball. The student dribbling counts to ten, if they can maintain their dribble for the ten count, the defensive player has to go and be annoying to a...

Pupils practice dribbling a basketball. They perform activities requiring walking, running, use of left and right hand. Students explore proper posture when dribbling. They experience the art of a progressive cross over. Pupils discuss...

Learners practice recognizing and getting into proper position when playing defense.

A collection of poems about basketball in its many facets, and, as a bonus, an article by renowned coach John Wooden about how he used poetry in his coaching.