PHYSICAL EDUCATION WEBSITES
Basketball, Soccer, Badminton, Ultimate Frisbee, Volleyball
Basketball
MOMS GUIDE TO BASKETBALL: This is a great website for beginners to
basketball as well as for moms who are trying to understand the game
better. It does a great job of breaking
the terminology down, and making it easy to understand. Date: 2/16/05. http://www.momsguide.com/basketball/bb1.html
BASKETBALL HIGHWAY: This is a
very interesting website that has a wealth of information. It is a fantastic website that teachers can
go to and get ideas for drills to perform.
This is more for the experienced player or coach, but the information it
contains could very well be used in
some form in physical education class.
The one downfall of this site is that they try and sell a lot of
products, so you do not know what is a link and what
is an advertisement. Date:
2/16/05. http://www.bbhighway.com/
BBC SPORTS ACADEMY BASKETBALL: This
is a fantastic website and a great source for learning about the game. This website is very easy to navigate
around, and the reader will enjoy learning about the game of basketball in a
very easy to read manner. This is great
for the beginner basketball player.
Date: 2/16/05. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/basketball/default.stm
BASKETBALL COACHING – IN SEARCH OF EXCELLENCE: At first look
at this website, it looks like a site that is just selling products. As you scroll down, you will see that it has
a ton of information. This is a website
that could both be used by a beginner and also used by a more experienced
player. There are drills, quotes, and
different plays. This website has all
the information you could ever want to know about basketball. Date: 2/16/05
http://coachlikeapro.tripod.com/basketball/index.html
Soccer
UNITED STATES NATIONAL SOCCER PLAYERS: This
is a fantastic website for the person trying to learn more about the game of
soccer, as well as the fan. There is an
area on the website in which you can look at the specific
JEFF PILL’S SOCCER DRILLS: This
is a very good website because it provides a large amount of activities for
either the soccer coach, or the Phys. Ed. teacher. The drills are very easy to understand and
also have diagrams accompanying them explaining the drills. There is even a nice helpful section that
goes over how to tell you target heart rate range. Date: 2/16/05 http://www.eteamz.com/soccer/pills/jpill.htm
SOCCER- COACH L – COACHING MANUAL: This
is a great website that provides extensive rules and principles. For the coach, it has a section of coaches resources
that consists of anything a coach could need.
This website also provides great practice plans that could be changed
into teaching lessons for physical education class. Date: 2/16/05
http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~dgraham/manual/
SOCCER: This is a
great website with a lot of information.
It is very well organized and shows a great deal of skills, drills and
any other kind of information you could ask for. This site is very educational and could
definitely be used in Phys Ed class.
This is both for the beginner and advanced player. Date: 2/16/05
http://eteamz.active.com/soccer/instruction/tips/index.cfm?m=1,2,3,4
Badminton
BBC SPORTS
ACADEMY BADMINTON: This is a good website for people trying to learn
about badminton. Unfortunately, the
website is a little difficult to understand.
The website is not very detailed; however it does go over the rules and
talk about the equipment that is used.
For the beginner, this website will provide them with a wealth of
information. Date: 2/17/05 http://news.bbc.co.uk/sportacademy/hi/sa/special_events/badminton/newsid_3556000/3556678.stm
BADMINTON
CENTRAL: This is a great website, but is for the more
advanced player. There is an extensive
message board that the viewer could go to in order to get their questions
asked. Unfortunately, there is not much
information here for the physical education teacher. Date: 2/17/05 http://www.badmintoncentral.com/badminton-central/
WORLD
BADMINTON: While this website looks very plain, it contains a
vast array of information. You could
find anything you ever wanted to know about badminton at this website. There is a lot of information here for a
physical education teacher such as badminton history, and a glossary of
terminology. Date 2/17/05 http://www.worldbadminton.com/
BADMINTON ONLINE: This website
is rather plain, but it does contain some good information. At first look, this website would appear to
be just an advertisement site. But once
you explore it, you see that there is a section you can go to, to find out the
history of badminton, and also a section you can look at specific shots and
read the description as to how to do them.
This website is for the beginner and does contain information that can
be used in a Phys. Ed. class. Date:
2/18/05 http://www.badminton.online.ukgateway.net/welcomeinf.htm
Ultimate Frisbee
ULTIMATE
HANDBOOK: This is a great website. It can be used for both beginners and more
experienced players. There is a section
on the website called “Basic” which is where beginners can learn about the
game. There is also a section in which
advanced players can look at different plays they can run and other strategic
information. Date: 2/17/05 http://www.ultimatehandbook.com/uh/index.html
ULTIMATE
FRISBEE.COM: This is a very good website,
but is more designed for the student who enjoys the game in class, but would
like to play outside of it. There are
links and information that someone could look at to find club teams or pickup
games in their area. Overall this is a
very good website; it just does not have as much information that could be used
in physical education class. Date:
2/17/05 http://www.ultimatefrisbee.com/
UPA RULES
OF ULTIMATE FRISBEE, 9TH EDITION: This is a very good website to learn
everything there is to know about Ultimate Frisbee. The website’s appearance is very bland, but the
information is very lengthy. The
wording is a little more technical then many beginners would like, but you are
able to understand it. Date: 2/17/05
http://www.cs.rochester.edu/u/ferguson/ultimate/ultimate-rules.html
WHAT IS
ULTIMATE:: This is a very good website that gives you a
great background on the game of ultimate Frisbee as well as some pictures that
show the game. There is a glossary
section and a section that discusses the rules. The terminology is very easy to understand
and is a great beginner website. Date:
2/17/05 http://www.whatisultimate.com/what/what_home_en.html
Volleyball
VOLLEYBALL.COM: This website is very user friendly. It contains a wealth of information. There are sections for drills, strategy, the
history of volleyball and photos. This
is a great website for beginners as well as experienced players. There
is also a volleyball links section that allows viewers to explore more if they
choose to. Date 2/18/05
http://www.volleyball.com/learn_the_terms.shtml
VOLLEYBALL
AND THE MINING COMPANY: This website contains a wide
range of information. There are tons of
links that the viewer can search through.
There are many tips and drills that a Phys Ed teacher can go through to
find drills for class. Date: 2/18/05
http://volleyball.miningco.com/
ROLLY
KEENEN CAN’T LOSE: This is a great website. There is plenty of instruction offered, and
lots of tips that can be used in the classroom. For the serious volleyball player however, there
is a section that gives a volleyball workout that they can look at and
implement in their own training. Date:
2/18/05
http://www.volleyball.org/rolly/index.html
PLAYING
VOLLEYBALL: At first glance, this website
is very plain and dry. There are no
pictures, it is just all text. Just
like the saying, do not judge a book by its cover, just because there are no pictures,
there is a lot of valuable information here.
There are a lot of cues that could be used in Phys Ed. for each of the
different areas of volleyball. Date:
2/18/05
http://www.volleyball.org/playing/