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Spec Basketball Theory Assessment Semester 2 2023

Charlie Harris |

This assessment is into three parts, a weekly program, a reflection on skills learnt and a reflection on courses.

For the planner my task was to design a personalized weekly program for a healthy self. The weekly program is expected to extend for a six-week period and should be specific. It is expected to cover the following factors:

  • Nutrition
  • Recovery
  • Endurance
  • Flexibility
  • Strength
  • Skill Development

Here is my planner that would be repeated for 6 weeks.

Here is my reflection to a skill I developed:

Throughout this course I have developed many helpful skills in offense and defense that I could use in games. One major skill that I have developed in this unit is help defense and more specifically, shell defense. Shell defense helps with defensive positioning which highly improves my help defence and stops offensive players from getting into the key-way. It gives everyone on the court positions and as the ball gets closer to your player, you take another step towards them. As another part of the shell defense, we learned how to defend against the screens and stay on your player without switching. In my games, I play as a guard, and this shell defense has helped me with my off-ball positioning. It puts me in a spot where I can confidently intercept passes to my player however, if the ball gets passed to them, I can get to them straight away. When a screen comes up in a game, the other guard helps me to stay on my player while still defending the roll. Shell defense also taught me to have my top foot above theirs to force them to the sideline where another player will stop them. By forcing them to the sideline, your other player can help instead of letting them inside, where they can potentially go on to score. Shell defense really improved my game and made me a better defender.

Here is my reflection to a course I found helpful:

Over the spec basketball course we had many specialists come in and talk to us on their topic. The people that came in did things like strapping, recovery and nutrition but the course that I enjoyed and found the most helpful was the strapping course. This course spanned over two sessions where we learnt how to strap our fingers and thumbs in the first session and our ankles in the second session. In each session we would learn how to do the strapping and then get into small groups and practice it on each other. By learning how to do this strapping we can use it when someone gets injured to prevent further injury or if someone is injury prone we can use it in advance to the injury to try to prevent the injury happening at all. In the first session we learnt about buddy strapping which is when you strap the injured finger to a normal finger beside it to keep it straight. We also learnt how to strap your thumb in place so that it doesn’t get jarred. In the second session we learnt how to strap your ankle so that it can’t roll in by taping it so that it stays flat and doesn’t roll.

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Year 9 Science Earthquake Tower Project

Charlie Harris |

Summary of project

In this project we were tasked to design, budget and build an earthquake resistant building out of spaghetti and blu-tac. To start this project we made up small groups of around four and we had to complete a design sprint and make a quick tower. This stage was important as it showed us what we lacked and the flaws of our design. After this we used the information that we learnt from the design sprint and we made a stronger more firm design that we then had to budget. In this challenge we had $60 dollars to spend on the tower where each stick of spaghetti costs $1 and each gram of blu-tac costs $1. Once we had the design and budget we began making it. We had worked out roles before-hand to ensure that everyone was working to their own strengths. I was assigned to do the budget and help construct the tower. Once we had finished the construction we put it onto a shake table to simulate an earthquake. The point of this was to see how earthquakes affect many people worldwide and to see how well we can design a tower. Our tower lasted the whole ten seconds on the table.

Engineering process

This project required a strong design that could withstand an ‘earthquake’. Because of this we needed a strong design that would stay standing during the tests. After a couple of designs that went over budget or weren’t strong enough we decided on the design above. We decided on this design as it slightly slants inwards meaning that the tower will be harder to fall sideways or on itself. We also used triangles as they are the strongest shape and will strengthen our build. We had support beams throughout the design that also formed the shape of a triangle and they ended up being the main reason our tower was so strong. We also used a triangle base as it would save on money because there was one less side while also being strong.

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Specialist Basketball Semester 1 2022

Charlie Harris |
Height165cm
Weight46 kg
PositionShooting guard
TeamAll Saints

Q1 – What is your best basketball feature?

Shooting mid-range

Q2 – Explain how you use this strength in games.

I hit lots of my mid range shots

Q3 – What did you do to establish this strength?

Practiced lots in and out of training.

Introduction:

For the first semester of the 2022 year one of my electives is Specialist basketball. In this we focus on improving our basketball skills and learning new strategies. This is a reflection of what we have done so far in the semester. I will talk about the things that we do in this subject as well what we learn.

Training:

I have training my teams every Wednesday after school from 3.30 until 5.00. At the start of our training we review our game that passed and we discuss how we could improve on those things. We spend the first part of our training implementing different ways of doing things to improve on the mistakes that we made in our game. For the rest of  training with my team we focus on things for the whole team including plays and other things that we can implement into our games. Out of training I spend lots of my time improving my shooting and my dribbling by just practicing them a lot.

Offensive Strategies:

In this subject we learnt lots of things to help us improve. Improving in offense was achieved by doing lots of shooting drills and dribbling drills. We also had some things that we looked over in more detail to improve on and that we could use in our games. One of the main things that we focused on was our spacing and creating space. By doing this we were a lot better at opening up spaces on the court for teammates or yourself to run into. I think this improved my offense a lot and my ability to help my teammates.

Defensive Strategies:

we learnt lots about defense to improve on our game. We spend lots of time in lessons looking at little things like the way we should be standing and how we should be moving when we are defending someone. We also spent time looking at a formation defense called shell defense. This is a great way to defend as a team as it allows lots of help defense to teammates but at the same time covers everyone on the court. This helped everyone understand lots of more thing about helping as well as your movement on and off the ball.

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Career Research Task

Charlie Harris |

In the second half of term 1 in life skills we have been looking at jobs and careers. We have done quizzes and tests as well as research to find out some jobs that we might be interested in or jobs that fit our skills. One of the jobs that matched my skills and interests was civil engineering.

Skills and knowledge areas that civil engineering requires are Engineering and technology as well as maths. I believe that I fit these areas and skills and I feel like I am interested in this topic. Civil engineering is about designing and planning buildings and structures.

Here is a video that explains what this job is:

There are lots of different places where civil engineering happens as when you want buildings and structures you need engineers. Here is some graphs about the job that I found interesting:

Civil engineering requires lots of collaboration with other people that work at your business as well other companies and businesses that are working on the same task. I believe I have pretty good communication and collaborative skills which is another reason why I found this job interesting and believe that I would be good at the job.

Important Job Skills for Civil Engineers

Lots of things in the world are designed by engineers but civil engineers focus on roads, sewers, bridges, pipe lines and lots of other things. Here are some examples of the type of work that civil engineers do.

Sixty years since the opening of Perth's Narrows Bridge — an engineering feat that transformed the city - ABC News
Australia's most dangerous roads | The NRMA
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Global Goals

Charlie Harris |

As one of my electives this year I chose Global goals which is a program where you have to choose a global goal and do a project on it. I chose this because I enjoy being creative and finding innovative solutions. The global goals is a group of 17 goals that was made by the United nations which aim to change the world and make it a better place. The United Nations are an intergovernmental organization which was founded in 1945 and aim to bring more peace and security to the world.

The Sustainable development goals are the blueprint to achieving a sustainable future, they are the overarch of the United Nations goals. The concept was described in 1987 in the Brundland Commission Report as developing the needs of the present-day without compromising the needs of the future generations.

The United Nations sustainable development goals or the Global goals consist of 17 different goals with each goal consisting of sub-goals. The 17 main Global Goals are:

  1. No Poverty
  2. Zero Hunger
  3. Good Health and well being
  4. Quality Education
  5. Gender equality
  6. Clean Water and sanitation
  7. Affordable and clean energy
  8. Decent Work and Economic growth
  9. Industry Innovation and Infrastructure
  10. Reduced Inequalities
  11. Sustainable Cities and Communities
  12. Responsible consumption and production
  13. Climate action
  14. Life below water
  15. Life on Land
  16. Peace Justice and Strong institutions
  17. Partnerships for the goals

These goals are important as they will change the world. The Goals also affect all people on Earth, it is crucial that everyone is aware of and have knowledge of them. Only then can we take action and contribute to making the world a better place.

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Surreal Media Film Reflection

Charlie Harris |

As a part of the media, we had had to make a surreal film. To do this we first, we had to brainstorm. For the brainstorm we were trying to think of the most weird and surreal thing we could think of that would make the viewers confused and make them think about the concept a lot. We ended up with a movie where a scientist accidentally creates an infected tape that kills people when they touch it due to the cringe.

 Once we had our idea we started planning and writing the script and the storyboard which is a frame by frame drawing which shows what you will do in different frames. We then we learnt how to use the cameras and then we were allowed to go out and start filming. Once we had finished all the filming we started editing our video and started to add affects and cut out the bad takes. We were editing our video on Adobe Premier Pro.

Some of the setbacks we had was that we couldn’t film because we couldn’t get our hands on a cassette tape which was the main prop in our film, sometimes people weren’t at school and even though we did what we could for some of the scenes we needed everyone and during the editing phase, only one person can edit the film so that slowed us down quite a lot. If I could do this again, I would try to film all of our scenes a bit quicker so that we can have more editing time and increase the quality of the final product.

 

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Project Utopia

Charlie Harris |

What is Project Utopia

Project Utopia is a project that the year seven cohort had been assigned. The aim of the project was to create a utopia (that is a perfect society) with your group and then present it on presentation night. This covered a lot of subjects as there were a lot of parts to it and it took a long time but on the 18th of September, we presented the project to visiting parents and grandparents. This was very hard but fun so here is my reflection of this experience.

The Process

The process of this Utopia Project started with reading The Giver in English which taught us about Utopias and Dystopias which was something really important for this project as it is about a utopia. Then in science, we started learning about sustainability and made a sustainable house where we learnt a lot about how we should make our houses. After that there was Hass, This taught us about livability factors and what types of things would make countries more and less livable. This helped as it showed us some things that we could focus on so our utopia will be very livable. Then also in Hass, we made individual utopias. These were only drawn and were not as big of a project but helped us understand a lot more about utopias and what we would be doing. After all of that, in InnovatED we started to create our utopias. My group used CoSpaces to build our model. Creating the cities consisted of planning, learning about global goals and gaining accreditation for them, and constructing the cities. While this was happening in Hass we started learning about civics and citizenship. This knowledge helped us learn more about how government works so that we could make better decisions about our government structure. After that, in Hass, we learnt about constitutions and wrote one for our utopia. Lastly in English our group presented a little presentation about our city. This gave us some feedback for the presentation afternoon and gave us an idea about what the presentation would be like. After all this, we finally got onto the presentation.

The Presentation

On the 18th of September, we were all finished and were ready to present. Eventually, they opened the doors and parents started coming in. As the evening went on parents and family would come up to our table and we would tell them about our utopia. We talked about our reasons for certain parts of our utopia, such as green power, community interaction, sustainability, quality education, and community services. Guests would ask questions and we would respond. I think our group did well as we were able to respond to all the questions with good detail and clarity. Some of the questions were a bit hard to answer (such as “where does the money come from to build the utopia?”) but most of the questions we had already thought of. The presentation went for a long time but in the end, everyone felt accomplished and proud of what they did.

My Utopia

My group consisted of Seth, Ayneschkanna, and me. I think we did well with our utopia as our utopia was very sustainable and had some amazing features like having 60% green areas,

My Reflection

Learning area connections:

I think that this is connected to a lot of different learning areas. The first one that comes to mind is science because we learnt about sustainability and made sustainable houses. We implemented the sustainable houses into our community and some people even brought a house for the showcase. Another one was English as we read The Giver which was about living in a utopia. This was the first thing we did that had anything to with utopias.

Most important information you have learnt:

The most important information that I learnt during this was that when you think outside the box you think of some ideas that work. Even if this idea is way too expensive or big to do because you don’t have to pay for it or build it so you can do it.

What you enjoyed the most:

Something that I enjoyed the most was being able to think freely without there being certain things that you have to do. There was only a brief goal saying that you needed to make a utopia but everything else you could do however you wanted to and you made your own decisions.

What aspects did you find most challenging:

Probably working as a team. Some decisions that you thought were good your team may not have liked. Also sometimes they can get angry because their idea didn`t make it into the final product. Although this was quite challenging, without the team I would have struggled a lot.

What would I do differently:

Next time what I might do differently is I might try to focus on gaining accreditation more than the building because in the end we didn`t have that many accreditations and we wanted to get more. Another thing that I would do differently is to maybe do a physical model instead of one on CoSpaces because on CoSpaces there is only a certain amount of things that you can build, but for a physical model, you can build whatever you want.