My students need this basketball goal and basketballs to help develop their skills. The basketball will lower in height and help for the younger students to practice.
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My Students
I am PE teacher in a suburban school in Indianapolis. It is a pre-k through 8th grade Montessori school. The students at my school are very diverse. They do not have many opportunities to learn or play sports outside of school. Students are not able to afford certain equipment that is necessary to play different team sports at our school. Our school also does not have the best equipment for games that are played at our school as well as training equipment.
My students have really enjoyed every opportunity playing different sports this school year.
I want to help enhance their interest and their skills in these sports with some better equipment. This will give them a better chance to play for sports teams when they reach the high school level.
My Project
I am the physical education teacher at Francis W. Parker Montessori School 56. My school has students from pre kindergarten to 8th grade. The students at my school love playing basketball. Every grade level loves doing any activity that involves shooting or dribbling a basketball.
We are in need of a basketball goal that can lower to heights for the younger students to practice.
There are several students in lower grades that want play or practice basketball when they get a chance in gym class. These students need a goal that can adjust to the appropriate height for them to practice shooting and encourage them that they are progressing with their basketball skills. We only have to basketball goals at our school that stay at 10 feet. The basket is not the proper height to practice for students in lower grades trying to develop their basketball skills. We also need the new basketballs for when we host home basketball games.
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