International Olympic Committee
International Olympic Committee: Table Tennis
This colorful presentation names the parts of the table tennis playing area, the table and net, and the bat (also known as the paddle), and provides animated example moves and more. Learn about different table tennis grips, how points...
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: No Racket Tennis
Through this lesson, students able to throw and catch a ball learn the proper scoring rules and positioning of players on a tennis court. Includes ideas for keeping the activity safe.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Throw and Catch Tennis
Students can be introduced to tennis or racquetball through this simple lesson where students "Learn strategies for moving the ball around the court and the importance of placing the ball in differnt spots."
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Soccer Tennis
Play a game of "Tennis," with a soccer ball! This website provides detailed guidelines for "soccer tennis" which can be varied depending on the skill-level of the learners. Includes ideas for assessing students' participation.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Tennis Physics
This image describes some of the physics involved when using a tennis racquet to hit a tennis ball with either topspin or backspin. The diagram shows the rotation and velocity for both the topspin and backspin shots.
Technovation
Curiosity Machine: Challenges: Make a Mechanical Leg
This website challenges students to make a ball and socket joint that mimics the movement of a human hip or shoulder. Using only a tennis ball, rubber bands, cardboard, and tape, students will construct this mechanical device. The site...
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PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad Challenge: High Rise (Pdf) [Pdf]
Hands-on challenge to build a tall tower that can support a tennis ball. Provides full list of materials with ideas on how to build, test, and redesign it if necessary, or take it to the next level. Activity focuses on the engineering...
PBS
Pbs Kids: Design Squad: Build: Kinetic Sculpture
Try your hand at designing and building an 18-inch tower that can support a tennis ball while a fan blows on it.
Other
American Society for Engineering Education: Building for Hurricanes
In this engineering design challenge about building in hurricane-prone regions, students learn that a solid base helps stabilize a structure by constructing, testing, and redesigning a tower that can support a tennis ball at least 18...
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Throwing for Distance
Students able to do an overhand throw can work on improving their skill through this simple activity that requires balls to throw, a wall to throw against, and cones to mark a throwing position.
PE Central
Pe Central: Pe Lesson Ideas: Service Anyone?
Students already familiar with the proper way to hit a ball with a racket can practice overhand serves. Working in groups, students not only practice their serves but also receive feedback from their group members.
Science is Fun
Science Fun: Bernoulli's Principle
This simple lab demonstrates Bernoulli's Principle using a balloon, a tennis ball and a hair dryer.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Do You Have the Strength?
In this activity, students squeeze a tennis ball to demonstrate the strength of the human heart. Working in teams, they think of ways to keep the heart beating if the natural mechanism were to fail. The goal of this activity is to get...
Arcademics
Arcademics: Puppy Hop Letter Recognition
Identify the letter and click on the correct tennis ball.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Ultimate Roller Coaster Contest
Students design and build a three hill "tennis ball" roller coaster made of cardboard. During the design and building process, students explore the concepts of potential and kinetic energy and how they change as the roller coaster...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Matching Properties of Lighting
In this 7-question quiz, students are asked to create an image of a tennis ball with the lighting condition shown in the image. Adjust light properties to match the image.
Curated OER
Science Kids: Science Images: Table Tennis
This clip art image is of a table tennis bat and ball.
PE Central
Pe Central: K 2 Pe Lesson Ideas: Wishing Well
Practice your underhand throw has you toss various object into a "Wishing well." As your throws improve, move further away from the wishing well or make the wishing well smaller to increase the difficulty of the activity.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Sports Equipment
Sports such as hockey, football, basketball and tennis use balls of different sizes. Can you arrange a selection of different balls in a line each touching the next to make the shortest line? This activity offers opportunities for...
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