Fair Play in Basketball

This lesson is designed to build students’ competencies in the following skills:

• adaptability
• creative thinking
• critical thinking
• digital literacy
• ethical understanding
• problem solving
• reflection

Australian Curriculum (v9.0) content description: 

Year 10 Health and Physical Education

Students can:

• analyse, adapt and refine their own and others’ movement skills in a range of challenging movement situations to enhance performance (AC9HP10M01)
• participate in physical activities that promote health and social outcomes to design and evaluate participation strategies for themselves and others (AC9HP10M05).

Year 10 Mathematics

Students can:

• plan and conduct statistical investigations of situations that involve bivariate data; evaluate and report findings with consideration of limitations of any inferences (AC9M10ST05).

Relevant parts of Year 10 Health and Physical Education achievement standards: Students evaluate and refine their own and others’ movement skills and performances, and apply movement concepts in challenging or unfamiliar situations. Students propose and evaluate community-based physical activity interventions designed to improve health, fitness and wellbeing of themselves and others. 

Relevant parts of Year 10 Mathematics achievement standards: Students plan and conduct statistical investigations involving bivariate data.

General capabilities: Critical and Creative Thinking, Digital Literacy, Ethical Understanding, Numeracy, Personal and Social Capability 

Cross-curriculum priority: Sustainability 

Level of teacher scaffolding: Medium - facilitate class discussion and help with data analysis.

UN SDG 4: Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all

• Target 4.1: By 2030, ensure that all girls and boys complete free, equitable and quality primary and secondary education, leading to relevant and effective learning outcomes.

• chairs 
• device capable of displaying audiovisual material
• sports equipment for basketball
• student devices for individual use
• Student Worksheet

These resources have been created with the support of the Australian Commonwealth Games Team, via Commonwealth Games Australia.

The Australian Commonwealth Games Team are set to take on the athletes of he world at the Glasgow 2026 Commonwealth Games from next year, and together the more than 250 athletes in green and gold aim to be the top nation at the Games in terms of gold and overall medals won, the number of medallists, and the number of sports winning medals.

You can cheer on Australia’s best across the screens of 7 and 7Plus from 23 July 2026.