Basketball

Sports and athletes are very popular in the United States.  Everywhere you look there is a sport advertised. Whether it is a t-shirt or other clothing, tv, radio, billboards, vehicles, flags, and houses, sports teams are everywhere.  Lots of people like to participate and/or be a spectator for a wide variety of sports.  Several kids dream of being the good athlete that plays varsity for the high school team, college or even proffessionally.  Do any of you?   But not everyone can make it to those levels.  Several great doctors, coaches, physical therapists and trainers were once athletes.  They are still able to participate in the sport they love and be part of the team.  

If you were injured today, who would you see?  A Doctor.  If you did not need surgery, where would the Dr. send you?  A physical therapist and/or trainer.  The physical therapist and trainer are very important part of a athlete's ability to get back into the game.  Do you have the knowledge to help the star player get back into the game?

P.E. teacher will assign students into groups of three.  Your group will be a team of physical trainers (PT) for a baskeball team.  Each group will select a different collegiate or professional basketball team, there cannot be any duplicates.  One team can choose the men's team and a different team can choose the women's team from the same college.   Your group will be know by the team you choose.  For example: Kentucky Wildcats or Chicago Bulls

Assignement 1:  You must research a information about your specific team.  That information will be reported at the beginning of your paper and power point presentation.  From your team, you must select a player from the 2013-2014 roster.  Each group will research their player and report biographical information about the player.  Your team and player's biological information will be presented in a 2 -3 page paper. 

Assignment 2:  Your star player has injured his or her knee.  Luckily, they will not require surgery.  It is your PT team's job to strengthen your players knee and get him or her back on the court.  Your team will need him or her for the play-offs.

Each team will research knee stegthening exercises and/ or therapy.  You will create a workout for your player to strengthen his or her knee and get him or her back to playing basketball.  You must be able to describe and demonstrate three strength exercises.

Each team will research basketball drills that will allow the athlete to work back into playing full time.  You must be able to describe and demonstrate three appropriate baskeball drills.  

Your team will create a video that describes and demonstrate each strengthening exercise and basketball drill.

Assignment 3:   Your team will create a powerpoint presentation with all the information above.  The video must be on a slide of the presentation.  The presentation needs to have a minimum of 10 slides and must have appropriate animation.  

Your team will present you powerpoint slide to the class

All work must be typed in Times New Roman, 12 font and double spaced.   

Your team must:

1.)select a team - turn it into the teacher to make sure there are no duplicates

2.)select a player from the team during the 2013-2014 roster

3.) select a head trainer to lead your group.  The head trainer will be responsible for all assignments labeled "Head Trainer".

4.) the other two members will be labeled Trainer 1 and Trainer 2 respectively for all assignments

Assignement 1:

The following are websites can be used to find a team.  After you select a team, click on the team and it will take you to their website to get team information and to select a player.

NBA Teams: http://espn.go.com/nba/teams

WNBA Teams:  http://sports.espn.go.com/wnba/teams

NCAA Men's Basketball: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/teams

NCAA Women's Basketball:  http://espn.go.com/womens-college-basketball/teams

Team member assignments:  

Head Trainer:  Will collect the basketball team's information   - location, basketball arena name, team name and mascot,          head coach, total roster for the 2013-20104 season, conference, owner (professional) or athletic director (college), and total number conference or championship wins in the last 10 years

Trainer 1:  Research the star player's high school, high school location, high school accomplishments, home town, height, weight, position, and if the player win a championship (district, state,etc.) in high school.

Trainer 2:  Research the star player's college, location, collegiate accomplishments/championships (did they win the conference, make it to the NCAA tournament and if so, how far did they make it), position, height, weight, individual statistics (example: steals, assists, shots made vs. taken,etc.)

All information will be combined into a two to three page paper about the start player.  Make sure you use proper grammar, font, spacing, and sentence structure while writing the paper.

Assignment 2:  

All three team members are responsible for researching a strengthening exercise and an appropriate basketball drill for the star player's injured knee.  The Head trainer, Trainer 1 and Trainer 2 will all be responsible for one strengthening exercise and one basketball drill.

Suggested Websites:

Knee Strengthening Exercises: http://www.whyiexercise.com/knee-strengthening-exercises.html

Knee Exercises:  http://www.whyiexercise.com/knee-exercises.html

Stretching Guide for Basketball:  

http://www.philipphysicaltherapy.com/Sports-Activities/Basketball/a~1900/article.html

Rehab for the knee: http://www.massgeneral.org/ortho/services/sports/rehab/Medial%20collateral%20Ligament%20Injury%20(MCL)%20Rehabilitation.pdf

Basketball drills: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piF2v7yiRj0

Candace Parker rehab drills:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkPIX-4A5kc

Amanda Bartlet Drills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHIJVBRSqUI

How to dribble faster: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g2Mc_WNXCM

Change of pace dribble: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wwv5nDpL6k

Basketball drills:  http://www.breakthroughbasketball.com/drills/basketballdrills.html#passingdrills

** You can look for drills on the internet, but you must cite the information and have a link to that specific page.

After you have chosen your drill, your team must make a drill describing and demonstrating all three strengthening exercises and all three basketball drills.  Each member will describe and demonstrate the exercise and basketball drill they researched.  We should see all three PT team members on the video.  There must be an introduction to the video and music.  The video needs to be 8-10 minutes long.  Proper graphics, sound effects and editing needs to take place.

Assignment 3:

The powerpoint or prezi presentation must be 12 slides, but can be more.  It must have an introducation, basketball team information, star player information, pictures, music, animation, and the video must be in the last slide.  

Head Trainer: Responsible for creating the slides for the Basketball team, one strengthening exercise, and one basketball drill

Trainer 1: Responsible for creating the slides for the star player's high school years, one strengthening exercise, and one basketball drill

Trainer 2: Responsible for creating the slides for the star player's college years, one strenthening exercise and one basketball drill

All other slides must be created together as a team.

Each assignment will be graded seperately as a homework assignment and will be 20% of the final project grade for a total of 60%.  Each team member will be graded on video and powerpoint presentation participation seperately and will receive a homework grade for their participation.  Each team member's grade will account for 10% of the project grade for a total of 30%.  Each team member must turn in all research notes and information that each individual researched.  The final 10% of the project will be for the research itself and all notes and information collected.

                                                          Paper = 20%

                                                Presentation = 20%

                                                          Video = 20%

     Participation(10% per team member) total = 30%

           Research, notes, information collected = 10%

                                                                    100%

     

The entire group project is worth a project score that will be 15% of your grade this grading period.

Paper is worth 20%

Star Player Biography Paper

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Teacher Name: Mrs. Suss


Student Name:     ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Internet Use	Successfully uses suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.	Usually able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.	Occasionally able to use suggested internet links to find information and navigates within these sites easily without assistance.	Needs assistance or supervision to use suggested internet links and/or to navigate within these sites.
Amount of Information	All topics are addressed and all questions answered with at least 2 sentences about each.	All topics are addressed and most questions answered with at least 2 sentences about each.	All topics are addressed, and most questions answered with 1 sentence about each.	One or more topics were not addressed.
Quality of Information	Information clearly relates to the main topic. It includes several supporting details and/or examples.	Information clearly relates to the main topic. It provides 1-2 supporting details and/or examples.	Information clearly relates to the main topic. No details and/or examples are given.	Information has little or nothing to do with the main topic.
Mechanics	No grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors.	Almost no grammatical, spelling or punctuation errors	A few grammatical spelling, or punctuation errors.	Many grammatical, spelling, or punctuation errors.
Organization	Information is very organized with well-constructed paragraphs and subheadings.	Information is organized with well-constructed paragraphs.	Information is organized, but paragraphs are not well-constructed.	The information appears to be disorganized. 8)
Paragraph Construction	All paragraphs include introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence.	Most paragraphs include introductory sentence, explanations or details, and concluding sentence.	Paragraphs included related information but were typically not constructed well.	Paragraphing structure was not clear and sentences were not typically related within the paragraphs.
Sources	All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented in the desired format.	All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but a few are not in the desired format.	All sources (information and graphics) are accurately documented, but many are not in the desired format.	Some sources are not accurately documented.

 

Powerpoint is worth 20%

 

Star Player Therapy Powerpoint Presentation

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Teacher Name: Mrs. Suss


Student Name:     ________________________________________

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Background	Background does not detract from text or other graphics. Choice of background is consistent from card to card and is appropriate for the topic.	Background does not detract from text or other graphics. Choice of background is consistent from card to card.	Background does not detract from text or other graphics.	Background makes it difficult to see text or competes with other graphics on the page.
Use of Graphics	All graphics are attractive (size and colors) and support the theme/content of the presentation.	A few graphics are not attractive but all support the theme/content of the presentation.	All graphics are attractive but a few do not seem to support the theme/content of the presentation.	Several graphics are unattractive AND detract from the content of the presentation.
Cooperation	Group delegates tasks and shares responsibility effectively all of the time.	Group delegates tasks and shares responsibility effectively most of the time.	Group delegates tasks and shares responsibility effectively some of the time.	Group often is not effective in delegating tasks and/or sharing responsibility.
Spelling and Grammar	Presentation has no misspellings or grammatical errors.	Presentation has 1-2 misspellings, but no grammatical errors.	Presentation has 1-2 grammatical errors but no misspellings.	Presentation has more than 2 grammatical and/or spelling errors.
Content - Accuracy	All content throughout the presentation is accurate. There are no factual errors.	Most of the content is accurate but there is one piece of information that might be inaccurate.	The content is generally accurate, but one piece of information is clearly flawed or inaccurate.	Content is typically confusing or contains more than one factual error.
Text - Font Choice & Formatting	Font formats (e.g., color, bold, italic) have been carefully planned to enhance readability and content.	Font formats have been carefully planned to enhance readability.	Font formatting has been carefully planned to complement the content. It may be a little hard to read.	Font formatting makes it very difficult to read the material.
Effectiveness	Project includes all material needed to gain a comfortable understanding of the topic. It is a highly effective study guide.	Project includes most material needed to gain a comfortable understanding of the material but is lacking one or two key elements. It is an adequate study guide.	Project is missing more than two key elements. It would make an incomplete study guide.	Project is lacking several key elements and has inaccuracies that make it a poor study guide.

Video Assignment is 20%

Star Player Video Rubric


 

• Teacher Name: Mrs. Suss

CATEGORY	4	3	2	1
Knowledge	All students showed excellent knowledge of content, needing no cues and showing no hesitation in talking or answering questions.	All students showed excellent knowledge of content, but 1-2 students once needed note cards to talk or answer questions.	Most students showed excellent knowledge of content, but 1-2 often needed note cards to talk or answer questions.	Most students needed note cards to talk and to answer questions.
Costume & Props	All students wore appropriate gear and the group used some props.	Some students wore appropriate gear and the group used some props.	Students did not wear appropriate gear, but the group used some props.	Students did not wear appropriate gear and no props were used.
Videography -Clarity	Video did not rock/shake and the focus was excellent throughout.	Video did not rock/shake and the focus was excellent for the majority of the video.	Video had a little rocking/shaking, but the focus was excellent throughout .	Problems with rocking/shaking AND focus.
Videography-Interest	Many different \"takes\", camera angles, sound effects, and/or careful of use of zoom provided variety in the video.	Several (3-4) different \"takes\", camera angles, sound effects, and/or careful of use of zoom provided variety in the video.	One or two different \"takes\", camera angles, sound effects, and/or careful of use of zoom provided variety in the video.	Little attempt was made to provide variety in the video.
Length of Video	Video was 8-10 minutes long.	Video was 6-8 minutes long.	Video was 4-6 minutes long.	Video was less than 4 or more than 15 minutes long.
Interest and Purpose	Video has a clear and interesting purpose.	Video is interesting but purpose is somewhat unclear.	Video is not very interesting and purpose is somewhat unclear.	Video is not interesting and has no discernable purpose.

 

After researching the star player, strengthening exercises and basketball drills, each student should have a "real world" understanding of what a physical trainer does.  There is a lot of work and dedication to be successful rehabilitating a star athlete back to health.  You should have a clear understanding of how important it is to study and know how to research topics.

The next time you see an athlete get injured playing sports, you will have a better understanding of what it takes to get the athlete healthy and playing their  sport again. 

I want to thand Dr. Sigears for helping me get on the correct path for this assignment.  I also want to thank Sheilah and Rylie for being my idea sounding board.

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