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Elevii vor învăța tehnicile fundamentale pentru sporturile baschet, fotbal, handbal, oină, rugby-tag și volei.

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Elevii vor înțelege importanța cooperării și coordonării în echipe în diferite sporturi.

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Elevii vor lucra pentru îmbunătățirea condiției fizice generale prin participarea activă la jocuri sportive.

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De ce este important lucrul în echipă și cum contribuie sporturile la sănătatea fizică?

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Profesorul va demonstra tehnici fundamentale din fiecare sport, explicând regulile de bază pentru baschet, fotbal, handbal, oină, rugby-tag și volei.

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5 Simple Basketball Moves ANYONE CAN DO! [WORKS LIKE 🤯 ]

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It's a wide world of sports for kids. With so many options, it's hard to pick just one. Plus, a lot of kids aren't limiting themselves to one sport, and that's a good thing! Trying different sports will build a well-rounded athlete with a reduced chance of repetitive injury.

To help keep your kid in shape for any season, full body conditioning drills and exercises are the way to go. Conditioning exercises help build endurance, balance, agility and coordination while strengthening the whole body-skills that all sports need.

Whether your kid is into basketball, football, soccer or just being a kid, these full-body conditioning exercises will have them ready for the game or the playground. All of these drills and exercises can be done anywhere, anytime, which is perfect when you're carting your kid to ALL the extracurriculars all around town.

Remember: When performing conditioning drills, the key concept is form before speed. As form improves, speed will follow.

Hopscotch - Ladder Drill
Start with both feet in the box of a rope ladder and jump forward so the right foot lands outside the next box. Jump back into the next box with both feet then back out to the other side with the left foot. This can also be done by drawing a hopscotch grid with chalk on a sidewalk.
Windsprints
Start at the baseline of a basketball court. Run to the first free throw line, tap the line with your hand and run back to baseline. Then run to the half court line. Tap and return to the baseline. Next run to the far free throw line. Tap and return to the baseline. Lastly, run to the far baseline. Tap and return to the starting baseline.
5-10-5 Shuffles
Going sideways, run as fast as possible five yards to the left, 10 yards to the right, then five back to the left. You can also incorporate backpedaling. Using different planes of movement are key for any sport.
Jumping Rope

Jumping rope helps build foot coordination and speed. Two-foot jumps, single-leg jumps and crossover jumps are the easiest for all levels. If you don't have access to a jump rope, you can do the same action without a rope. In addition to conditioning drills, these basic conditioning exercises will help any player gain strength for any number of sports.

Plank to Low Squat: Begin in a plank position on the hands rather than the elbows. Jump your feet to the outside of your hands, coming into a deep squat while keeping your hands on the floor. Quickly jump back to plank. Repeat in a quick succession.

Split Jack: Step one foot back and lower into a lunge with your arms down by your sides. Then jump up off the ground and switch to land in a lunge on the other side. As you jump and switch to a lunge on the other side, swing your arms out to the side and overhead. When you land in the lunge on the other side, your arms should be up overhead. Repeat.

Push-Up: Get into high plank position. Place your hands firmly on the floor while bracing your core and with your back flat. Lower your body down toward the ground, keeping your back flat and body in a straight line with your arms close to the body at a 20- to 40-degree angle from your body. Ideally, you want your chest to touch the floor while maintaining proper form. Exhale as you push back up to starting position.

Mountain Climber: Starting on your hands and knees, bring the left foot forward directly under the chest while straightening the right leg. Keeping the hands on the ground and your core tight, jump and switch legs. The left leg should now be extended behind the body with the right knee forward.

Inchworm: Stand up tall with your legs straight and fingertips touching the floor. Keeping the legs straight (but not locked!), slowly lower the torso toward the floor. Then walk the hands forward. Once in a push-up position, start taking tiny steps so the feet meet the hands.

Burpees: Start out in a low squat position with hands on the floor. Next, jump the feet back to a push-up position, complete one push-up, then immediately return the feet to the squat position. Leap up as high as possible before squatting and moving back into the push-up portion of the exercise.
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Kids Conditioning Drills and Exercises for Any Sport

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Whether your kid is into basketball, football, soccer or just being a kid, these full-body conditioning exercises will have them ready for the game or the playground.

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Profesorul va nota participarea și performanțele elevilor în timpul activităților.

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Elevii vor răspunde la câteva întrebări scurte despre regulile și tehnicile sporturilor.

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Put on your thinking caps and get ready for some seriously fun sports trivia! This brain game is perfect for birthday parties, family game night or an engaging activity to make those long hours in the car or plane fly by. Team up or play as individuals to see who will be named MVP.

The below questions (and answers) cover the field from baseball to bowling, swimming to soccer. Choose questions from Rookie (easy), Pro (medium) or Hall of Fame (difficult) levels so everyone has a chance to get in the game. Good luck!

Rookie (Easy)

Q: What does NBA stand for?
A: National Basketball Association

Q: How many bases are there on a baseball field?
A: 4

Q: What part of the body can't touch the ball in soccer? (Except the goalie.)
A: Hands Q: How many holes are played in a typical round of golf?A: 18

Q: What color flag is waved in motor racing to indicate the winner?
A: Checkered flag

Q: How many regulation strokes are there in swimming?
A: Four. Backstroke, Butterfly, Breaststroke and Freestyle

Q: In what sport would you find a pommel horse?
A: Gymnastics

Q: What color are the goal posts in football?
A: Yellow

Q: What tool is used in striking a tennis ball in the sport of tennis?
A: Tennis racquet
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Pro (Medium)

Q: How long is a marathon?
A: 26.2 miles

Q: What five colors make up the Olympic rings?
A: Blue, yellow, black, green and red

Q: How many players are on a baseball team?
A: 9

Q: What is the only sport to be played on the moon?
A: Golf

Q: What sport is Bela Karolyi known for coaching?
A: Women's gymnastics

Q: In which sport was Muhammad Ali popular?
A: Boxing

Q: In what game is "love" a score?
A: Tennis

Q: What type of race is the Tour de France?
A: Bike race

Q: How old was Tiger Woods when he won the Masters?
A: 21

Q: What is it called when a bowler makes three strikes in a row?
A: Turkey

Q: What is the diameter of a basketball hoop in inches?
A: 18

Q: What was banned in basketball from 1967 to 1976?
A: The slam dunk

Q: In which sport are the terms "stale fish" and "mulekick" used?
A: Snowboarding
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Hall of Fame (Difficult)

Q: How many sports were included in the 2008 Summer Olympics?
A: 28

Q: What three horse races make up the Triple Crown?
A: The Kentucky Derby, Preakness Stakes and Belmont Stakes

Q: What team scored the most points in a Super Bowl?
A: San Francisco 49ers (Super Bowl XXIX)

Q: What is the only country to play in every World Cup?
A: Brazil

Q: How long is the free skate in figure skating?
A: Four and a half minutes for men, four minutes for women

Q: In what year were women allowed to compete in the modern Olympic games and in what sport?
A: 1900, Tennis

Q: The Borg-Warner Trophy is awarded to the winner of which race?
A: Indianapolis 500

Q: Who was the first president to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Major League Baseball game?
A: William Howard Taft

Keep the fun going and add your own trivia questions or play speed rounds and see how many correct answers you can remember. Whichever way you play, everyone is sure to be a winner.

Courtney McLaughlin is a freelance writer in Charlotte, N.C. She gratefully shares her life, home and heart with her daughter and their dog.

Additional Resources

50 Trivia Questions for Kids
50 Get to Know You Games and Icebreakers
25 Party Games for Kids
Top 50 Minute to Win It Games

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Sports trivia is a fun way to test knowledge and create some conversation. Try these questions at your next birthday party, event or gathering with questions ranging from easy to hard.

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21 BEST Youth Basketball Drills for BEGINNERS (In 5 EASY Phases)

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history of basketball, notable events and people in the development of basketball since its invention in the late 1800s. Unlike that of most popular sports, the origin of basketball is concise and all-American-it is the only major sport strictly rooted in the United States. The game was created by James Naismith, a physical education instructor, on or about December 1, 1891, at the International Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. Its creation was met with great enthusiasm, and within a decade basketball became a collegiate sport. Although the first professional league was formed in 1898, the growth of the sport was fairly slow-albeit steady-for much of the early 1900s. It gained inclusion in the Olympic Games in 1936 and grew in international popularity following World War II. The formation of the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1949 cemented the sport's cultural importance in the United States, where it is played on playgrounds, in schoolyards, and on family driveways by children and adults alike. Basketball has also been embraced around the globe, notably in Spain, Italy, China, and Australia, where many contributions have been made to basketball's varied history.
(Read James Naismith's Britannica essay on basketball.)

The early years

In the early years the number of players on a team varied according to the number in the class and the size of the playing area. In 1894 teams began to play with five on a side when the playing area was less than 1,800 square feet (167.2 square metres); the number rose to seven when the gymnasium measured from 1,800 to 3,600 square feet (334.5 square metres) and up to nine when the playing area exceeded that. In 1895 the number was occasionally set at five by mutual consent; the rules stipulated five players two years later, and this number has remained ever since.

Since Naismith and five of his original players were Canadians, it is not surprising that Canada was the first country outside the United States to play the game. Basketball was introduced in France in 1893, in England in 1894, in Australia, China, and India soon thereafter, and in Japan in 1900.

While basketball helped swell the membership of YMCAs because of the availability of their gyms, within five years the game was outlawed by various associations because gyms that had been occupied by classes of 50 or 60 members were now monopolized by only 10 to 18 players. The banishment of the game induced many members to terminate their YMCA membership and to hire halls to play the game, thus paving the way to the professionalization of the sport.

Originally, players wore one of three styles of uniforms: knee-length football trousers; jersey tights, as commonly worn by wrestlers; or short padded pants, forerunners of today's uniforms, plus knee guards. The courts often were of irregular shape with occasional obstructions such as pillars, stairways, or offices that interfered with play. In 1903 it was ruled that all boundary lines must be straight. In 1893 the Narragansett Machinery Co. of Providence, Rhode Island, marketed a hoop of iron with a hammock style of basket. Originally a ladder, then a pole, and finally a chain fastened to the bottom of the net was used to retrieve a ball after a goal had been scored. Nets open at the bottom were adopted in 1912-13. In 1895-96 the points for making a basket (goal, or field goal) were reduced from three to two, and the points for making a free throw (shot uncontested from a line in front of the basket after a foul had been committed) were reduced from three to one.

Baskets were frequently attached to balconies, making it easy for spectators behind a basket to lean over the railings and deflect the ball to favour one side and hinder the other; in 1895 teams were urged to provide a 4-by-6-foot (1.2-by-1.8-metre) screen for the purpose of eliminating interference. Soon after, wooden backboards proved more suitable. Glass backboards were legalized by the professionals in 1908-09 and by colleges in 1909-10. In 1920-21 the backboards were moved 2 feet (0.6 metre), and in 1939-40 4 feet, in from the end lines to reduce frequent stepping out-of-bounds. Fan-shaped backboards were made legal in 1940-41.

A soccer ball (football) was used for the first two years. In 1894 the first basketball was marketed. It was laced, measured close to 32 inches (81 cm), or about 4 inches (10 cm) larger than the soccer ball, in circumference, and weighed less than 20 ounces (567 grams). By 1948-49, when the laceless molded ball was made official, the size had been set at 30 inches (76 cm).

The first college to play the game was either Geneva College (Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania) or the University of Iowa. C.O. Bemis heard about the new sport at Springfield and tried it out with his students at Geneva in 1892. At Iowa, H.F. Kallenberg, who had attended Springfield in 1890, wrote Naismith for a copy of the rules and also presented the game to his students. At Springfield, Kallenberg met Amos Alonzo Stagg, who became athletic director at the new University of Chicago in 1892. The first college basketball game with five on a side was played between the University of Chicago and the University of Iowa in Iowa City on January 18, 1896. The University of Chicago won, 15-12, with neither team using a substitute. Kallenberg refereed that game-a common practice in that era-and some of the spectators took exception to some of his decisions.

The colleges formed their own rules committee in 1905, and by 1913 there were at least five sets of rules: collegiate, YMCA-Amateur Athletic Union, those used by state militia groups, and two varieties of professional rules. Teams often agreed to play under a different set for each half of a game. To establish some measure of uniformity, the colleges, Amateur Athletic Union, and YMCA formed the Joint Rules Committee in 1915. This group was renamed the National Basketball Committee (NBC) of the United States and Canada in 1936 and until 1979 served as the game's sole amateur rulemaking body. In that year, however, the colleges broke away to form their own rules committee, and during the same year the National Federation of State High School Associations likewise assumed the task of establishing separate playing rules for the high schools. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Rules Committee for men is a 12-member board representing all three NCAA divisions. It has six members from Division I schools and three each from Divisions II and III. It has jurisdiction over colleges, junior colleges, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA), and Armed Forces basketball. There is a similar body for women's play.

Growth of the game

Basketball grew steadily but slowly in popularity and importance in the United States and internationally in the first three decades after World War II. Interest in the game deepened as a result of television exposure, but with the advent of cable television, especially during the 1980s, the game's popularity exploded at all levels. Given a timely mix of spectacular players-such as Earvin ("Magic") Johnson, Julius Erving ("Dr. J"), Larry Bird, and Michael Jordan-and the greatly increased exposure, basketball moved quickly to the forefront of the American sporting scene, alongside such traditional leaders as baseball and gridiron football. Four areas of the game developed during this period: U.S. high school and college basketball, professional basketball, women's basketball, and international basketball.

U.S. high school and college basketball

Basketball at the high school and college levels developed from a structured, rigid game in the early days to one that is often fast-paced and high-scoring. Individual skills improved markedly, and, although basketball continued to be regarded as the ultimate team game, individualistic, one-on-one performers came to be not only accepted but used as an effective means of winning games.

In the early years games were frequently won with point totals of less than 30, and the game, from the spectator's viewpoint, was slow. Once a team acquired a modest lead, the popular tactic was to stall the game by passing the ball without trying to score, in an attempt to run out the clock. The NBC, seeing the need to discourage such slowdown tactics, instituted a number of rule changes. In 1932-33 a line was drawn at midcourt, and the offensive team was required to advance the ball past it within 10 seconds or lose possession. Five years later, in 1937-38, the centre jump following each field goal or free throw was eliminated. Instead, the defending team was permitted to inbound the ball from the out-of-bounds line underneath the basket. Decades passed before another alteration of like magnitude was made in the college game. After experimentation, the NCAA Rules Committee installed a 45-second shot clock in 1985 (reduced to 35 seconds in 1993), restricting the time a team could control the ball before shooting, and one year later it implemented a three-point shot rule for baskets made beyond a distance of 19.75 feet (6.0 metres). In 2008 the three-point line was moved to 20.75 feet (6.3 metres) from the basket.

More noticeable alteration in the game came at both the playing and coaching levels. Stanford University's Hank Luisetti was the first to use and popularize the one-handed shot in the late 1930s. Until then the only outside attempts were two-handed push shots. In the 1950s and '60s a shooting style evolved from Luisetti's push-off one hander to a jump shot, which is released at the top of the jump. West Virginia University guard Jerry West and Purdue University's Rick Mount were two players who demonstrated the devastating effectiveness of this shot.

Coaching strategy changed appreciably over the years. Frank W. Keaney, coach at the University of Rhode Island from 1921 to 1948, is credited with introducing the concept of "fast break" basketball, in which the offensive team rushes the ball upcourt hoping to get a good shot before the defense can get set. Another man who contributed to a quicker pace of play, particularly through the use of the pressure defense, was Adolph Rupp, who became the University of Kentucky 's coach in 1931 and turned its program into one of the most storied in basketball history.

Defensive coaching philosophy, similarly, has undergone change. Whereas pioneer coaches such as Henry Iba of Oklahoma A&M University (now Oklahoma State University) or Long Island University's Clair Bee taught strictly a man-to-man defense, the zone defense, developed by Cam Henderson of Marshall University in West Virginia, later became an integral part of the game.

Over the years one of the rules makers' chief concerns was to neutralize the advantage of taller players. At 6 feet 5 inches (1.96 metres) Joe Lapchick was considered very tall when he played for the Original Celtics in the 1920s, but, as even taller players appeared, rules were changed in response. To prevent tall players from stationing themselves near the basket, a rule was instituted in 1932-33 prohibiting the player with the ball from standing inside the foul lane with his back to the basket for more than three seconds; the three-second rule later applied to any attacking player in the foul lane. In 1937-38 a new rule forbade any player from touching the ball when it was in the basket or on its rim (basket interference), and in 1944-45 it became illegal for any defending player to touch the ball on its downward flight toward the basket (goaltending).

Nevertheless, with each passing decade, the teams with the tallest players tended to dominate. Bob Kurland (7 feet [2.13 metres]) led Oklahoma A&M to two NCAA championships in the 1940s and led the country in scoring in 1945-46. In the same era George Mikan (6 feet 10 inches [2.08 metres]) scored more than 550 points in each of his final two seasons at DePaul University before going on to play nine professional seasons in which he scored more than 11,000 points. Mikan was an outstanding player, not only because of his size but because of his ability to shoot sweeping hook shots with both hands.

In the 1950s Bill Russell (6 feet 9 inches [2.06 metres]) led the University of San Francisco to two NCAA championships before going on to become one of the greatest centres in professional basketball history. Wilt Chamberlain (7 feet 1 inch [2.16 metres]) played at the University of Kansas before turning professional in the late 1950s and is regarded as the greatest all-around big man ever to play. It remained, however, for Lew Alcindor (later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar), also 7 feet 1 inch, to most influence the rules. After his sophomore year (1966-67) at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), the dunk shot was banned from collegiate basketball, ostensibly because the rules committee thought, again, that the big men had too great an advantage. The rule was rescinded beginning with the 1976-77 season, and the dunk shot became an important part of the game, electrifying both fans and players.

So too have the small- and medium-size players affected the game's development. Bob Cousy, playing at Holy Cross College and later for the Boston Celtics, was regarded as one of the game's first great playmakers. He was among the first to use the behind-the-back pass and between-the-legs dribble as effective offensive maneuvers. Later such smaller players as Providence College's Ernie DiGregorio, the University of North Carolina's Phil Ford, and Indiana's Isiah Thomas proved the importance of their role. Between those two extremes are players such as Louisiana State University's Pete Maravich, who set an all-time collegiate scoring record of 44.5 points per game in the 1969-70 season; Magic Johnson, the point guard who led Michigan State University to a championship in 1979 and the Los Angeles Lakers to several NBA championships; Oscar Robertson, a dominating performer for the University of Cincinnati in the late 1950s and for the Milwaukee Bucks in the 1970s; Larry Bird of Indiana State University, a forward of exceptional versatility who led the Boston Celtics to several championships; and Michael Jordan, a great all-around player with the University of North Carolina in the 1980s who is widely considered one of the best professional players in the history of the sport.

Nothing influenced the college game's growth more than television, however. The NCAA championship games were televised nationally from 1963, and by the 1980s all three major television networks were telecasting intersectional college games during the November-to-March season. Rights fees for these games soared from a few million dollars to well over $50 million by the late 1980s. As for broadcasting the NCAA finals, a television contract that began in 2003 gave the NCAA an average of $545 million per year for the television rights; this exponential growth in broadcast fees reflected the importance of these games to both networks and advertisers.

Profits such as these inevitably attract gamblers, and in the evolution of college basketball the darkest hours have been related to gambling scandals. But, as the game began to draw more attention and generate more income, the pressure to win intensified, resulting in an outbreak of rules violations, especially with regard to recruitment of star players.

The most identifiable phase of college basketball in America is the postseason tournament held in March-popularly known as March Madness. Interest in the NCAA tournament paralleled the growth of the game. The first basketball tournament was staged by the Amateur Athletic Union in 1897 and was won by New York City's 23rd Street YMCA, later to become a traveling professional team known as the New York Wanderers. Although the YMCA was prominently identified with the game in its early years, it did not hold its first national tournament until 1923, and that event took place until 1962. The first national tournament for colleges was held in 1937 and was conducted by an organization in Kansas City, Missouri, that later became the NAIA.

New York City basketball writers organized the first National Invitation Tournament (NIT) in 1938, but a year later the New York City colleges took control of the event. Until the early 1950s the NIT was considered the most prestigious American tournament, but, with the growth of the college-run NCAA championship, the NIT became a consolation event for teams that failed to make the NCAA selections.

The first NCAA tournament was played in 1939, and its growth took place in three stages. The first era ran through 1964, when it was essentially a tournament for champions of various conferences. There were just eight teams in the 1939 field, and by 1963 it had been expanded to 25 teams, all champions of their respective conferences, plus several successful independent teams. The most outstanding teams of the 1940s and '50s participated in both the NCAA and NIT tournaments, but, after the gambling scandals that followed the 1950 NIT championship, a rule was passed prohibiting a team from playing in both. Afterward the NCAA tournament progressively outgrew the NIT.

In 1964 the second era dawned as the UCLA Bruins, coached by John Wooden, began a period of domination over the NCAA field. From that season until 1975 Wooden led his teams to 10 NCAA championships. Only championships won by Texas Western University (now University of Texas at El Paso) in 1966 and North Carolina State in 1974 interrupted UCLA's reign. In the eyes of many, the UCLA dynastic period probably had a regressive effect on the game's growth; a sport with such high predictability lost some of its attractiveness.

The third growth stage came with the end of UCLA's dominance. Champions began to emerge from all sections of the country. From the field of 25 in 1974, the NCAA tournament expanded to 64 participants in 1985, to 65 in 2001, and to 68 in 2011 (corresponding "play-in games" were added in 2001 and 2011), including not only conference championship teams but other outstanding teams from the same conferences as well. Three weeks of play culminate with the Final Four weekend, an event now comparable in general public interest and media attention to the Super Bowl and World Series. Championships at the Division II, Division III, and NAIA levels also continued to grow in interest, reaping some of the fallout from the popularity of Division I.

About 17,000 high schools in the United States have basketball teams. All 50 states conduct statewide tournaments annually.

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