Dribble Guard

Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate basic dribble.
• Protect the basketball with a non-dribbling arm.
• Develop cardiovascular endurance, agility, and eye-hand coordination.

Description Of Activity

 HEALTH-RELATED PHYSICAL ACTIVITY: Dribble Tag (10 minutes) 

• Playspace is a basketball court (add a second court if too crowded).
• Designate 4 students as taggers; they wear bibs.
• Each student (including taggers) has a basketball and is dribbling.
• On your signal, taggers attempt to tag as many students as possible without losing control of their basketballs. If a tagger tags without control of the basketball, the tag doesn't count.
• If the dribbler is tagged, the student must dribble around outside of the court one time.
• If the dribbler loses control of the basketball, the student must dribble around outside of court one time.
• Continue for 2 minutes then change taggers.

Add taggers if the students are not active enough.

 ACTIVITY #1: Direction Challenge 

• Students are to follow their directional movements while dribbling basketballs.
• Move forward, backward, left, right, zigzag, etc.
• No verbal directional commands are given. They should watch your movements.
• As skills improve, make movements faster and more difficult.

ACTIVITY #2: Knock-Out 

• Either half-court, full-court, or multiple courts are utilized according to class size.
• Each student has a basketball.
• On your signal, students dribble with the dominant hand, moving within the court and trying to knock the basketballs away from other students.
• Students protect their basketballs with movement and with a non-dribbling arm.
• If basketball is knocked away, or the student loses control of basketball, the student must exit the area, and dribble the basketball once around the outside of the court before re-entering the game.

COOL DOWN/ CLOSURE Review Skill/Activity, stretching, and questions.

Equipment/Material Required

• 1 basketball per student
• Containers (barrels) or cart to hold basketballs

Set-Up

Place basketball containers in different corners of the play space.