2. Types of Sports
Individual/Dual
Team

3. Tell if the following sports events is
team sports or individual/dual games.
Badminton
Athletics
Basketball
Lawn tennis
Volleyball
Archery
Softball
Arnis
Sepak Takraw
Baseball

4. What is Basketball?
 Basketball is a game played between two
teams of five players each on a rectangular
court, usually indoors. The objective of the
game is to shoot a ball through a basket. It
is one of the most popular and widely
viewed team sport in the world.

5. Who invented the game?
 It was invented by the Canadian clergyman, educator and
physician James Naismith on or about December 1891, at
the International Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA)
Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield
Massachusetts.
 It was Luther Halsey Gulick, Naismith’s supervisor and the
College’s first physical education director, who challenged
Naismith to invent a new indoor game for the school’s
students to play during the long New England winter.

6. James Naismith published in 1891, his rules for the game of "Basket Ball"
that he invented. The original game played
under these rules was quite different than the
one played today as there was no dribbling,
dunking, or three pointers.

7. Basic Skills
 Dribbling
 Passing
 Shooting
 Rebounding
 Running
 Jumping

8. Benefits of Playing Basketball
1. Strengthens muscular endurance
2. Build healthy bones
3. Improves balance and coordination
4. Develops fundamental movement skills
5. Improves body composition
6. Boosts heart health
7. Develops self confidence
8. Lowers stress
9. Encourages team spirits
10. Develops communication skills

9. Activity 1
 Watch a basketball game in youtube. Cite
the title and its URL then narrate what you
observed during the game, the players’
skills, common problems encountered by
the players like dehydration, overexertion,
hypothermia and hyperthermia.