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Drugs In Sports
Learners explore why drug testing happens and why drug use is a problem in sports. Students classify the consequences of using drugs while participating in sports. Learners relate drug usage in their own lives and school backgrounds.
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Let the Games Begin!
Third graders use K-W-L charts to brainstorm a list of questions they would like to answer about sports. While visiting a Web site, 3rd graders research a chosen sport and complete their K-W-L chart.
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Deportes en Espana
Ninth graders use the internet to research sports in Spain. Using the information they gather, they identify cognates and use them to guess the meanings of words they are unsure of. They use a news article to illustrate on their...
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Canadian Olympic Athletes
Students select an athlete from the Canadian Olympians website. They select pictures and list the qualities demonstrated by their chosen athlete which are required for the sport. They create posters showing their chosen athlete in action.
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Art About Sports
Students locate a photograph of their favorite sports hero using the internet. Using the largest image available, they print a black and white picture of their hero and use this image for their drawing.
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Sporting Traditions
Students examine the sporting traditions associated with specific regions of the UK. They role play situations that demonstrate the need for good sportsmanship. They discuss and categorize different types of sports.
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Able Sports
Learners work together to design a new sport for disabled persons. They share their new sport with the class. They discover how mechanical and biomedical engineers use information to test prosthetics.
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Stadium Voices
Students watch NEW YORK VOICES special "New York Sports: Big Shots and Bad Guys," read excerpts from famous novels/essays in hopes of understanding the feelings that sports stadiums inspire, and create a tourist brochure that highlights...
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Running of the Bulls
Learners conduct online research and investigate the tradition of the running of the bulls at the Fiestas of San Fermin in Pamplona, Spain. They write about what they have learned about the history and traditions of the celebration.
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Problem Solving and the Sports Page
Fourth graders create and solve word problems using the boxscores from the sports section of the newspaper. The role play the sport, define abbreviations used and examine the fundamentals of scoring the sport.
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3 Position Pass Patterns
Students play a passing game to familiarize themselves with pass patterns and the roles of the quarterback, center, and receivers on a football team,
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SOS: Save Our Ski Slopes
Students defend downhill skiing as an Olympic Games event by creating a presentation that graphically proves the economic impact and popularity of this event.
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What in the World Is Snowboarding?
Young scholars research the sport of snowboarding in-depth, and divide into small groups to create an entertaining, multimedia newsletter on the sport.
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Sports Safety Posters
Students create posters highlighting sports safety tips. Discuss some general safety guidelines students must follow when playing sports in the gym or the schoolyard. Write students' responses on the board.
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The Last Resort
Students rescue the Desert Mountain resort by designing a travel brochure that bring in the tourists.
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Sports Helmets and Impact Testing of Polymers
Students test various polymers resistance to impact. In this technology lesson, students collect data and formulate a conclusion. They design their own helmet and present it to class.
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Safety Gear and Helmets
Students explain how helmets protect the head from injury. In this physics activity, students design their own helmets after considering certain parameters. They present their design in class.
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Pennsylvania Boxing: Living the American Dream
Learners reflect on fictional and real boxers from Pennsylvania. In this history lesson, students read, reflect and discuss the historical period following World War II and observe the boxers that were famous from Pennsylvania during...
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Sport Dictation
In this sport dictation worksheet, students take dictation concerning various sports terms and their definitions.
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Ball Throw Relay
Learners use ball-handling skills while running. In this ball-handling lesson plan, students divide into teams, toss the ball back and forth while running in a relay format.
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Olympic Quiz
In this Olympic quiz worksheet, students break into groups and are given 1 minute to write as many answers as they can to the questions about the Olympics.
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The Olympic Rings
In this Olympic rings worksheet, students read information about the Olympic rings. Students then answer 8 questions about the text.
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The Winter Olympics
In this Olympics word search activity, students read 24 words that pertain to the sports in the winter Olympic games. Students find the words in a word search puzzle.
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Bottom of the Ninth and Down by Four
In this writing prompt worksheet, students use the prompt 'It was the bottom of the ninth and we were down by four runs,' to write a short story.