BASKETBALL Math & Reading BUNDLE | Escape Room | March Madness Activities
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Get your students excited about reading and Madness in MARCH with this differentiated basketball-themed project bundle!
Includes project-based learning, close reading, escape room, CSI activities, and more. Perfect for engaging students in math, science, and informational text practice.
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By purchasing this bundle, you are saving 20% off the price of the individual units.
Go to new depths of learning with the Project-Based Learning activity. This differentiated resource uses elements of the Design Process as well as Depth and Complexity so that students can further enhance learning with:
- Activity 1a, 1b and 1c | ASK | Read | ”Tips For Being a Great Basketball Coach,” “My Dream Basketball Squad: How to Design the Perfect Team” and “5 Unique Basketball Teams That Left A Mark In The NBA History”
- Activity 2 | IMAGINE | Brainstorm About Your Team
- Activity 3 | RESEARCH and PLAN | Choosing Logo Colors and Symbols
- Activity 4 |APPLY| Solve 5 Real-life Word Problems Using Multiplication and Division
- Activity 5 | CREATE | What Are the Details? Design a Basketball Dream Team Brochure Activity 6 |IMPROVE | Request Constructive Feedback from a PEER Inspector
- FINAL Activity | Crack the Code | Complete a Multiple-Choice Quiz and Crack the Pigpen Cipher Code to Earn an Exit Ticket Code
- BONUS Activity | Design a Basketball Jersey
The CSI Activity: Lead your students on an engaging journey through logical reasoning, deduction, and inference. The culprit of this story is Marc Hadnez, a disgruntled NCAA committee member who is MAD about President Lee Dorval’s plan to change the basketball seeding system. Marc attempts to blackmail Lee into canceling his plan. Detective Justin Matters is on the case.
The students in your class will be asked to use the investigative process, deductive logic, common sense, and help solve the crime.
Students will analyze suspects through witness statements, alibis, inferences, and trace evidence. It all leads up to a final computer font analysis that reveals the culprit.
This CSI Activity is GOOGLE Classroom Friendly or Print and Go!
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**A digital version is included for use with Google Classroom.**
With the digital version, you have the option to go 100% paperless.
This Product Includes:
- Teacher Notes | Answer Keys
- Cover Page for Student File
- Crime Scene Protocol
- Process the Evidence, Understand the Motive
- What Happened? The Blackmail Details
- Basketball Blackmail Note-Taking Page
- Suspect Profiles
- Suspect Alibis
- Evidence Logic Grid about Names and Motives
- Evidence | Fingerprint Analysis (Magnifying glasses suggested)
- Evidence | Cryptic Communication | Decode a message
- Evidence | Computer Font
Engage your students with an exciting ESCAPE ROOM close-reading activity and a high-interest reading passage about the fundamentals and fun facts of basketball and legendary coach, John Wooden.
Perfect for March Madness reading challenges or any time during basketball season. Includes informational texts on how to play like a pro and learning from Coach Wooden. Improve comprehension skills while having fun!
Close Reading CHALLENGES include:
- Informational Text- “A Beginner's Guide to Basketball: How to Play Like a Pro” and “Learn from John Wooden - An Inspirational Coach and Role Model”
- Breakout Task 1- Plot an Escape: Vocabulary Word Match
- Breakout Task 2- Use Deductive Logic: Fill in the Blanks
- Breakout Task 3- Scour the Scene: Find Sentences in a Paragraph
- Breakout Task 4- Make Your Way Through the Maze
- BONUS Writing Activity: Respond to 3 “Would You Rather” Questions
- Complete an Exit Ticket: Fill in the Code. Respond to 3 reading comprehension statements.
Approximately 1+ hours of Activities (5 separate activities for all at once or separately)
Grades 5-8
(Check out the PREVIEWS, older or slightly younger students may enjoy these activities as well!)
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