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Create Your Own Sporting Event Unit PlanCreate Your Own Sporting Event Unit Plan
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Create Your Own Sporting Event

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Combine vocabulary development and a study of verb tenses with a general introduction to sports. Class members get acquainted with the language associated with sports, and then complete a project to design and describe their own version of a sport.

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CCSS: Adaptable

Concepts

olympic sports, sports, winter sports, the world cup, world cup soccer

Additional Tags

physical education

Instructional Ideas

  • As a fun extension to their final project, have students actually participate in the new sports that they design!

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  • Several lesson sequences included in this resource
  • Each activity is broken down into multiple instructional guidelines and tips

Cons

  • Instructor will need to locate and/or prepare materials to accompany each lesson

Common Core

W.6.7 W.7.7 W.8.7 L.6.1.a L.7.1.a L.8.1.a

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