Teachers can incorporate hoop and basketball images into their bulletin boards.
Many children love to play basketball. To engage students, teachers can create basic, meaningful basketball bulletin boards that incorporate elements of the sport. These boards can be tailored to fit any subject or grade level and work to teach students about basketball and also grade-specific content.
Multiplication Basketballs
When students are learning their multiplication tables, the teacher can create a basketball multiplication bulletin board. To do this, cover a large bulletin board. Then, paste or draw ten basketball hoops. You can also purchase mini basketball hoops at the dollar or discount store for a three-dimensional effect. Line up the ten hoops horizontally on the bulletin board. Under each hoop, attach a small basket. Make enough basketball cutouts so that each student has one. Have each student write his name on a basketball, and when he can say the first multiplication table (multiples of one) he can put his basketball through the first hoop. As he memorizes a new number, he can put his basketball through a new hoop. After a basketball goes through a hoop, it should stay in the basket under the hoop until he learns the next number.
Preposition Basketballs
Teach students to identify prepositions with a preposition basketball board. This bulletin board idea works well with a small bulletin board. After covering the board with bright paper, glue an inexpensive basketball hoop to the middle of the board. Place Velcro strips all around the hoop. Then, on small basketballs, write prepositions, such as over, under and beside. Laminate the basketballs and place the other side of the Velcro on the back of the balls. Allow students to move the balls all around the hoop, depending on which word they pick up. For instance, students should put the under basketball under the hoop.
Play by Play
Coaches can teach young basketball players about basic basketball form and plays with a felt play by play bulletin board. First, create a felt board. To do this, cover a bulletin board with orange or yellow felt. The felt represents the bottom of a gym floor. With a permanent marker and a ruler, draw lines to represent half-court and the basketball key. Glue or draw two pictures of baskets on either side of the court. Create felt cutouts by printing pictures of the players---or you could simply use cut-outs of generic people---and make them attach to the felt board by laminating them and gluing felt to the back of the character. That way, the picture will stick to the felt board. The coaches and teammates can use the felt board to maneuver the felt players to demonstrate techniques and new plays.
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