ABSTRACT
Dodgeball is a popular game in Japanese schools, but it does not provide learning that is effectively transferable to normal ball games. The purpose of the study this chapter reports on was to change the conventional dodgeball concept of hitting a player and dodging the ball by creating an alternate game. The aim was to create a game that is more similar to typical ball games such as basketball where the ball is passed between players with the opposition players aiming to block or intercept it. At the same time, the study identified what the children learn by playing this modified game as an alternative to dodgeball. The focus was not on practising technique or skill, but on the game as a whole phenomenon. The study identified students’ learning from personalized adaptation games in a unit of basketball with the students’ descriptions written on a study card. Analysis of the data generated through descriptions written on study cards revealed the students’ learning．
