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- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students capture the serve motion of a tennis player with a digital or video camera. Using transparencies or a software package, analyze the speed, acceleration, displacement and time of the racquet head and ball in the tennis stroke. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 8th
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Students identify the author's purpose after reading an article on sports. They discuss the main idea and supporting details. Then they compare and contrast the role of sports in their own culture and at school with the role of sports in the target culture and in schools of the target culture. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 3rd - 5th
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Students examine the strength and resilience of the human heart. They squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart, record and analyze the results on a worksheet, and create a poster of a design of a device to fix the heart when something has gone wrong. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students work with percentages. They determine how percentages express a whole divided into one hundred equal parts. They use the problem solving strategy of drawing a diagram to determine how to answer the stated problem. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th - 6th
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Students practice a modified version of paddle tennis. They set up the court and review the elements of the game. Students practice serving and returnig the ball. They practice keeping score. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th
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Students warm-up together as a class before receiving instruction from teacher about proper gripping technique for a tennis racket. Students work individually on ball control before receiving instruction for a forehand ground stroke and practicing with a partner. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 8th
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Students participate in a group juggling game in which they use skills such as coordination, concentration, and team work to pass a series of tennis balls around in an established pattern. During reflection, the class discusses how this game may relate to their life when they are juggling too many things and what can be done to make it easier. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students apply mapping skills associated with latitude and longitude. They research the history of tennis and the U.S. Open. Students explore the importance of port cities to the economy of the United States. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 2nd - 3rd
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Students review the "word choice" writing trait, and recall how to use descriptive words to paint a picture. They write a description of one of their tennis shoes without sharing it with classmates. They place a shoe on display while the teacher reads the description and the students determine which shoe is being described. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 4th
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Students are introduced to the rules and equipment used in the game of tennis. As a class, they practice scoring a game in which they are only given instructions on what has happened. To end the lesson, they play the game with two people against one. Full Review »
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