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- Grade Range
- Kindergarten - 12th
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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. Full Review »
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- 4th
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Students create and solve word problems based on box scores of various sporting events. They acquire map skills by using maps to plan a trip to where the game was played. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students practice playing a net sport similiar to volleyball. They work together to score more points than the other team. They make suggestions about who to change the game as well. Full Review »
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- 4th - 6th
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Students become familiar with the sport that became a social ritual in ancient American cultures, examining its importance. They gain an understanding of how contemporary sports have acquired importance within modern American culture. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 7th - 9th
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Students discover that sporting and leisure activities need to be carefully regulated by law, and that health and safety issues need to be addressed. They access websites imbedded in this plan in order to study real-life cases. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 6th - 8th
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Students examine the concept of racism and how it has affected sports. They discover how different sportmen have dealt with the issue of racism in their sport. They consider how racism in sports can be avoided. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 9th - 12th
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Students examine the role of sports in cities across the country. Using recent public policy, they discuss how far the public should go to provide a new sports stadium for their teams. In the first part of this lesson, they explain the role of economists and why they oppose the use of subsidies in this area. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 10th - 12th
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Students explore how sports can bring about feelings of nationalism. They compare and contrast images of cyclists and sumo wrestlers in terms of the country of origin for the sport and the feelings of nationalism they convey. Students research the influence sports have on nationalism in terms of attendance and revenue and write a brief essay. Full Review »
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- 5th - 8th
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Students put their writing on the World Wide Web. They write brief articles of 100 words or more on PE and sports related topics which are then put on the Internet on the Sports Shorts Webzine. They create sports related artwork or cartoons which can be scanned and put on our Web page. Full Review »
- Grade Range
- 5th
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Students participate in a variety of sports related problem solving equations that involve fractions, decimals and percents. They explain the relationships and equivalences among integers, fractions, decimals and percents with a garbage can, a basketball and a hoop. Full Review »

