Golf Lesson Plans

Sixth graders estimate the measurement of angles and linear distance from one point to another. Using a specified website, 6th graders play a game of "Golf" where they enter the angle and distance a ball must be hit. Upon completion of the game, students complete estimation papers on paper.

Students explore physical education by participating in a sport with their classmates. In this golf swinging instructional activity, students discuss the different golf clubs and their specific uses. Students participate in a golf station game in which they utilize a single club and try to accomplish a different task at several stations.

Students participate in a disc golf game. They throw the flying disc to each hole/cone on the course, completing various fitness tasks and monitoring their heartrate on a heart rate monitor.

Students assess their golf putting skills by filling out an assessment form.

Studens are divided into six groups with each accessing the "History of Golf Since 1497" website, and familiarizing themselves with the data on one of the six pages of the website. They then work together as a large group to construct a timeline of the history of the game.

Students practice soccer kicking skills. In this soccer skills lesson, students participate in a game as they use the inside of their foot to kick the ball toward numbered cones.

Sixth graders practice making transformations using the Geometer's Sketchpad. They visit a given website and play a computer game called, "Transformation Golf." Students play nine holes of golf through creating reflections, rotations and translations. Afterward, they complete problems on paper.

Learners play a game with tennis balls, cones and hoops. They roll the ball and count the number of rolls it takes to get the ball into each hoop. They record their scores on a scorecard.

Students engage in a center-based lesson which provides experience and exposure to the connecting and symbolic levels of subtraction. This excellent lesson has many wonderful activities included for each of the math centers.

Students are members of the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission. They make recommendations to the "governor" and a panel of his advisors regarding the greenhouse effect and global warming.