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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Cutting Athletics = Cutting Scholarship Chances

For Teachers 9th - 12th
Students identify athletic programs to be cut from school district budget, find out how many students have received college athletic scholarships in past, and interview students and coaches to find out how scholarship search is going if...
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Be a Good Sport!

For Teachers 6th - 8th
Middle schoolers explore the sport of lacrosse to improve their reading and grammar skills. In this reading and grammar lesson, students read and discuss the sport of Lacrosse. Middle schoolers complete a Cloze activity, a grammar...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Athletics: merit badge

For Students 5th - 12th
In this athletics worksheet, students fill out short answer questions using their workbook about athletics and safety in order to get a merit badge. Students complete 6 questions total.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Going For The Gold

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Young scholars share opinions about athlete endorsements. They write articles that provide an economic profile of an athlete for submission to their school newspaper.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Create Your Own Sporting Event

For Teachers 4th - 6th
Learners use their imagination and language skills to create and describe their own sporting event. In this sporting event lesson, students brainstorm sports related vocabulary and identify their parts of speech. Learners categorize the...
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Worksheet
Curated OER

Acrostic Poem: Athletics

For Students 2nd - 5th
In this acrostic poem worksheet, students compose a poem using each letter in the word "athletics" as a beginning letter for a descriptive poem on the topic.
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Lesson Plan
Curated OER

Sports and Olympics - Word Puzzle

For Teachers 6th - 8th
In this Olympics worksheet, students challenge themselves to complete the Olympics vocabulary crossword puzzle by identifying the 16 words that are defined as clues.
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Article
Other

Usa Track & Field

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource delivers the most up-to-date information and news regarding track and field.
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Handout
Able Media

Able Media Llc: The Ancient Olympics

For Students 9th - 10th
A series of articles and historical information about the history, origins, and events of the ancient Olympics.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers:you Be the Coach

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Investigate the essential physical skills needed to play a sport. Explore why sports, athletics or physical activities should be an important part of teens' lives.
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Website
Other

Recreation & Health for Children

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Japanese content. The site aims to promote physical fitness for children and provides news items and information on fitness tests, how to exercise, where you to play sports, and how to promote an active and healthy lifestyle. You can...
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Website
Princeton Review

The Princeton Review: Career Coach

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains detailed information on the coaching career field. Tells typical duties, job requirments (both educational and personal), what to expect after being in the field for awhile, future job outlook, and more.
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Should Students Pay to Play?

For Teachers 3rd - 6th Standards
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding for vocabulary learning. It contains questions and teacher guides and...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: Hard Hit

For Teachers 8th
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about the negative health effects that can come from playing football. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Website
Penn Museum

Penn Museum: The Real Story of the Ancient Olympic Games

For Students 9th - 10th
This site delves into the history of the Ancient Olympic games. The University of Pennsylvania's Museum of different aspects of the Ancient Olympic games.
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Website
International Olympic Committee

International Olympic Committee: Athletics

For Students Pre-K - 1st
Learn about the track and field events that take place during the Summer Olympics competition: races, jumps, throws, and combined events. Using colorful drawings and animations, this site provides a good introduction to the various...
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Website
Other

Sports Central

For Students 9th - 10th
Sports Central is an online sports source providing top stories, scores, analysis, and commentary in the world of sports.