Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to review & reinforce basic knowledge learned during our Basketball unit including 1) terminology, 2) foundations of basketball (history), 3) offensive skills/positions, 4) defensive skills, and 5) rules of the game. Students will create a board game focused on challenging their comprehension of the five topic areas by developing and answering questions that will serve as a review for our upcoming unit exam on Basketball.
Grade Level: 10-12
Materials Needed:
Poster board, markers, tape, glue, ~100 index cards, crayons, colored pencils, scissors, stapler, paper clips, Basics of Basketball handout, computer access.
Assignment Description:
Once in a group with a randomly selected topic, students must work cooperatively within their own group to construct 10 challenging questions related to their topic area. To ensure that the questions will, indeed, act as a review for the Basketball Unit Exam, students must their Basics of Basketball handout, any class notes they've taken, or select websites provided by the teacher on the Acceptable Websites Listing.
Students can write their questions on index cards (one per question). Correct answers to these questions are to be typed on a separate sheet of paper. Both questions and answers, when completed, are to be submitted to the teacher for his/her approval. Once returned by the teacher, students can begin to create their board game for their topic area using the provided poster board and materials.
The game board must meet the following five (7) criterion:
1) Clear instructions and rules governing play
2) The correct answers to each question typed on a separate sheet of paper
3) A clear strategy and overall purpose for the rules governing. In other words, what is the goal when playing the game?
4) A colorful, unique playing board designed by the group of students
5) Creative game pieces to play with (figurines, cards, dice/die). These can be created or brought in. In both cases, however, the pieces should somehow relate to the game of basketball.
6) Questions pertaining to the assigned topic
7) Game does a sufficient job of preparing others for your area of the Basketball unit exam
On the assigned due date, students will place their board games under a clearly marked basketball hoop in the gymnasium designated for their group. Groups will start at one station and progress to other board games at one time in a logical fashion, playing each game for 10 minutes, until all games have been played by all groups. At each station, group members will work together to complete one (1) peer evaluation sheet that will be based on the criteria for the assignment.
Administration Description:
Students will form their own groups of 4 students. Each of these groups will be assigned one of the five topics by randomly drawing topics out of the "lucky basketball shoe". Prior to allowing students to begin creating questions, show students examples of board games created by former students. Also, allow for time to hold a brief question and answer session between the teacher and all groups. The teacher will make sure that the questions are appropriately modeled to fit the content covered in the Basketball unit and that they are, indeed, correctly answered.
On the due date, the teacher will place names of the students composing the various groups under the basketball hoops. Students are to report to their station with their board game. The instructor will monitor time closely, ensuring that each group has about 10 minutes to play each game and correctly fill out their group evaluation sheets at each station. It is during this time that the teacher, too, will rotate about the gymnasium, filling out evaluations for all the board games.
Scoring Method:
Each evaluation sheet will be identical and contains a total of seven questions related to the ability of the other projects to meet the stated criteria. Scoring will be based on a 1 to 5 scale for each of the seven questions in two phases - first, the classmate assessment and second, the teacher evaluation. The total score (with a max score of 35 per group) made by adding the score for each assesment (Teacher assessment score + classmate evaluation score) will be divided by two for the overall project score.
Rubric:
The rubric for scoring is as follows ---
Score Rubric Criteria Covered
5 Excellent Completely
4 Very good Mostly
3 Good Average
2 Fair Somewhat
1 Poor Insufficient/Lacking totally
Total project score, after dividing the sum of all assessment scores by 3, will be based on the following scale:
35 points = Excellent
30-34 points = Very good
25-29 points = Good
20-24 points = Fair
15-19 points = Poor
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