Gain Without The Pain
Grade level: 6,7,8

Subjects: Science, Health, Physical Education

Learner outcomes:
1) Students will learn how to prevent injuries while playing basketball.
2) Students will learn how to lessen the extent of a basketball injury
3) Students will compare the injuries that happen to them to the injuries that occur to professional athletes.

Duration:
Introduction--30 min.
Students work independently 5 days
Follow-up--10-15 min

Materials:
Computer with Internet access and Microsoft Office or Corel Word Perfect Suite
Student survey questions
Doctor survey questions

Technology tools/Courseware:
Computer
Internet
Microsoft Word / Corel Word Perfect
Microsoft Excel
Microsoft Power Point / Corel Presentations
Internet filtering software
Acceptable user policy

Procedures:
1) Have students interview local doctors about the most common type of injuries they see during the basketball season.
2) Students will interview boy and girl basketball team members to see if they have experienced injuries, and if so which ones.
3) Compile data from student surveys.
4) Search the internet for statistics on professional basketball injuries.
5) Compare student data to professional data
6) Search internet for information on how to prevent sports injuries
7) Prepare a report with charts and graphs on sports injuries; how often they occur and how to prevent them

Modifications:
1) Provide extra time for students as mandated by the iep.
2) Allow for peer tutoring/ paired assignment.
3) Alter assignment(s) as called for in iep.

Enrichment:
1) Have a nurseor a doctor come in and speak about sports injuries.
2) Have school trainer come in and demonstrate how injuries are treated during a game.
3) Have students try to do simple tasks while wearing a splint, or sling or other injury treatment to see how hard simple things become.
4) Have students create brochures on sports injuries.

Evaluation/Assesment:
1) Survey questions and results
2) Lab report
3) Monitor student participation

Standards:
National standards
These standards are from the Mid-Continent Research for Education and Learning organization(McRel)
Health standard and benchmarks
Standard 5: Knows essential concepts and practices concerning injury prevention and safety
Level 3 (grade 6-8) 1. Knows injury prevention strategies for family health(e.g., having a personal and family emergency plan, Including maintaining supplies in readiness for emergencies; identifying and removing safety hazards in the home)

Physical education standard and benchmarks
Standard 5: Understands the social and personal responsibility associated with participation in physical activity
Level 3 (grade 7-8)
2. Engages in more advanced activities that develop and maintain muscular strength and endurance (e.g., calisthenics activities, resistance, and weight training)

Science standard and benchmarks: Life Sciences
Standard 5:  Understands the structure and function of cells and organisms
Level 3 (6-8) Knows that multicellular organisms have a variety of specialized cells, tissues, organs, and organ systems that perform specialized functions (e.g., digestion, respiration, reproduction, circulation, excretion, movement, control and coordination, protection from disease)

West Virginia IGO's
Health 6.6  Develop self-protection strategies to avoid personal harm and injury
Health 7.5  Contrast the relationship among healthy behaviors, personal responsibility, and the prevention of injury.
Health 8.13 Demonstrate first aid procedures and link with local community resources.
Physical education 6.5  describe the benefits of and participate in warm-up and cool-down activities.
Physical education 7.5  participate in and analyze the benefits of warm-up and cool-down activities.
Physical education 8.11  compare intensity levels for a variety of physical activities (e.g. Walking, jogging,running).

Science 6.28 (4,5,7,8)  identify the structures of living things and explain their functions (e.g., similarities and differences in organisms, complexity in organisms, similarities and differences among closely related groups)
Science 7.29 (8,9,10,11)  explain how human body systems work together (e.g., skeletal, muscular, and integumentary systems)
Science 8.33 (7,9,10,11)  compare the variations in cells, tissues, and organs of the circulatory, respiratory, and reproductive systems of different organisms
Professional Workplace
Pw.2 Given a set of rules, directions, or instructions, apply them to solve a problem or accomplish a task.
Pw.5 Given an event or activity, identify the resources needed and develop a plan of action.
Pw.10 Use correct punctuation,spelling,vocabularyand grammar in all written work.
Pw.26 Demonstrate the ability to operate computer equipment.
Pw.28 Demonstrate the ability to select and use multiple software packages for specific purposes.

Career cluster(s)
Science
Health
Technical

References:
No specific works sited

Authors:
Karen L. Bennett
Timmie Korczyk
Ivan W. Smith
Beckley-Stratton Junior High