Physical
Education Websites
TENNIS – BASKETBALL
– BADMINTON
– VOLLEYBALL – ULTIMATE
FRISBEE
BBC Sport Academy | Tennis – This is a
great website for many sports especially tennis. It has great multimedia for teaching the
basics of tennis. Students will really
enjoy this website. Date 9/17/04
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/tennis/default.stm
About Tennis – This site is for the a little more advanced tennis player. It is also fairly wordy in its content. It is still a good informative website. Date 9/17/04
http://tennis.about.com/
United States Tennis Association – This is the official website of the United States Tennis Association. It has information concerning the profession side of tennis and a small amount of general tennis basics. The website is a good website for generating interest and taping into prior-knowledge. Date 9/17/04 http://www.usta.com/home/default.sps
Mom's
Guide | Tennis - This
is a great site for sport beginners. It
can be a great resource for explanatory material when starting a tennis unit
for beginners. The information about the
game is explained very well and is not too technical or advanced. Date 9/17/04
http://www.momsguide.com/tennis/te1.html
Basketball for the Coach – This site
has information for the more advanced player or coach. It has a lot of links and sometimes you do
not know if it is something their trying to sell or a link with skills
information. Date 9/17/04 http://www.hoopsking.com/
BBC Sport Academy | Basketball – Again, this website is a great website for
learning. The students will enjoy
learning from this easy to understand website.
It only really touches on the basics which is great for beginner
basketball players. Date 9/17/04
http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/basketball/default.stm
Mom's
Guide | Basketball –
This is a great site for sport beginners.
It can be a great resource for explanatory material when starting a
basketball unit for beginners. The
information about the game is explained very well and is not too technical or
advanced. Date 9/17/04
http://www.momsguide.com/basketball/bb1.html
Badminton Central – This website is a
bit wordy and is probably for the more advanced badminton player. It does have information on this such as how
to grip a racquet, but it really is not a very attractive website. Date 9/21/04 http://www.badmintoncentral.com/badminton-central/
World Badminton – World Badminton is a very informative website but a bit dry to the eye. It is as an exhaustive list of links for anything badminton from equipment to badminton organizations around the world. Date 9/21/04 http://www.worldbadminton.com/
BCC Sports Academy | Badminton – The BCC does not do as well with badminton as it does with some of the other more popular sports. However, the link I used here sends you to good informative information about the badminton court, racquet, and shuttlecock. These three pages are actually very good teaching tools for beginning a badminton unit. Date 9/21/04 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/badminton/newsid_3556000/3556678.stm
Playing Volleyball – This website has
pretty good instructional content for serving, passing, setting, hitting,
blocking, and individual defense. It has
good step by step information for those skills.
There are no pictures or diagrams but could be a good source for step-by-step
print outs for students. Date 9/27/04
http://www.volleyball.org/playing/
About Volleyball – This is not an in-depth website but does go over some advanced skills
such as the jump serve. Again this is
another wordy website but also includes links to other volleyball
websites. Date 9/27/04 http://volleyball.about.com/cs/advancedinfo/ht/?terms=advanced+instructional
United
State Youth Volleyball League - Here is a website that is not so much instructional as it is for the
participant. It has information about
the youth league and how to get involved.
This could be very useful for students who interested in more volleyball
outside of the classroom. Date 9/27/04 http://www.volleyball.org/usyvl/
USA Volleyball
- This is
another informative website about volleyball in general but does not offer any
real instructional content beyond rules.
This is a site that could be used for activating prior knowledge or
interest in the sport. It has
information on USA Team Volleyball, sand volleyball, youth, and adult
volleyball. Date 9/27/04
http://www.usavolleyball.org/
Volleyball.com – This is a very informative website with
lots of good information concerning rules, terminology, drills and technique
complete with diagrams, and photos. It
is an attractive website which could be used in class to generate interest and
activate prior knowledge. Date 9/27/04 http://www.volleyball.com/learn_the_terms.shtml
Ultimate Players Association – This
website is a good interest generator for ultimate Frisbee. It has general information about the game
itself and abundant information about organizations, leagues, and different
levels of play. Date 9/27/04 http://www2.upa.org/index.php
Ultimate
Handbook – Great
website! This is a very good and easy to
use website. It is very informative and
uses flash to demonstrate different things in ultimate Frisbee. It also has good images for proper techniques
such has holding and catching the Frisbee.
It is a good beginners website and would be
useful to show to the class. It has
information on the very basics of the game and basic techniques. Date 9/27/04
http://www.ultimatehandbook.com/uh/index.html
What Is
Ultimate – This is a
very general website with a couple of good diagrams and pictures. It also has a good general rules section and
terminology section. These pages could
be good to print and hand to students.
Date 9/27/04 http://www.whatisultimate.com/
UltimateFrisbee.com – Here is information for the advance player
or those who really want to get involved outside of the classroom. The information provided here is very
detailed when it comes to rules and regulations of play. This website could also be used to inform the
students of what opportunities are available for this game. Date 9/27/04 http://www.ultimatefrisbee.com/
Beach Ultimate – This site could be used to inform students
about how to play ultimate Frisbee at the beach. It is a game with a little variation to the
original. It is a simple website with
good information. Date 9/27/04 http://www.beachultimate.com/