New York State Education Department
TASC Transition Curriculum: Workshop 5
Are video games sports? Pupils investigate this question as well as various nonfiction selections to learn more about claims and the support that defines them. All of the selections mimic the rigor on state tests and encourage close...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Brain Break I See Sports Lesson Plan
In this brain break instructional activity, students act out different movements, using their psychomotor skills, found in sports.
Google
Cs Education at Google: Cs First: Sports Theme
A set of eight activities that teach young scholars basic computer science concepts using the programming language Scratch. Includes lots of additional supports for teachers. All materials are free and teachers sign in to create a class....
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Sports Fitness Lesson Plan
In this lesson, students learn about fitness and sports! Students follow along with their teacher to perform exercises that can be found in all different sports.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Sports Poetry in Motion
This lesson plan enables learners to study and understand the grace of motion involved in the movement of sports. Included in the lesson plan is an overview, practice, objectives, resources, preparation, and more.
Children's Museum
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis: Sports Science and Wellness
This unit of study contains three lessons, each with three experiences that may be taught together or individually. Each lesson will connect to science and/or math standards, along with a health standard or sports connection.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Global Oneness Project: Sports for Social Change
In this lesson, students explore how participation in team sports can help empower youth in other areas of their lives. Students identify principles of how young people learn and discuss the ties between sports, civic engagement, and...
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport
In this lesson plan, students will consider "The Victor's Virtue: A Cultural History of Sport." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
Alberta Online Encyclopedia
Alberta Online Encyclopedia: Aboriginal: Sports and Recreation/student Zone
This Edukit provides learners with the opportunity to explore the Aboriginal Peoples with a focus on their Sport and Recreation. From beadwork to North American Indigenous Games, from timelines to games and images, this site is an...
Learning to Give
Learning to Give: Lesson 1: Sports Heroes and Private Action for the Public Good
With this lesson plan, teachers can assist students in expanding their knowledge of African American sport heroes beyond their athletic achievements. Students will learn what these famous black Americans have contributed to the world...
TryEngineering
Try Engineering: Engineered Sports
Students work in teams to investigate how aerospace engineering relates to sports, especially golf ball design and the physics of bounce. They use this information to determine whether these aerospace principles can be applied to...
Learning to Give
Learning to Give: Lesson 2: Philanthropy of Sports Heroes and Myself
With this lesson plan, teachers can assist students in expanding their knowledge of African American sport heroes who accomplished much more than athletic victories. Students will increase their understanding of philanthropy and...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Ruff Ruffman Show: Teacher's Guide: Sports Science
Learn about sports science and force and motion alongside Ruff Ruffman.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Sports Screeners
Examine how physical activity and sports are depicted in movies and on television. Hypothesize how images of physical activity and sports depictions in entertainment can influence young people's attitudes and behaviors.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Identifying the Force Used to Put Sports Equipment Into Motion
Children discuss, observe, and play with equipment used in familiar sports, and then brainstorm a list of familiar sports and the equipment used in the sports. They discuss how the equipment is used, and predict how it is put into motion...
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Sports Franchise Simulation
Using a deck of cards, students play a game similar to War where they become sports franchise owners. After setting up their initial team, they compete against other teams for a season. The game is based on an article in the Journal of...
Orca Book Publishers
Orca Book Publishers: Tj and the Sports Fanatic Teaching Guide [Pdf]
Hazel Hutchins has written the TJ series of novels. This teaching guide for TJ and the Sports Fanatic, about TJ playing football, includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on writing the book.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Engineering in Sports
Imagining themselves arriving at the Olympic gold medal soccer game in Beijing, students begin to think about how engineering is involved in sports. After a discussion of kinetic and potential energy, an associated hands-on activity...
Shodor Education Foundation
Shodor Interactivate: Lesson: Probability and Sports
The Shodor Education Foundation provides this lesson plan. In it, students explore where probability can be applied to professional sports. NCTM standards are listed for this lesson plan.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Debate: Is Cheerleading a Sport?
A lesson plan in which students examine how women are perceived in society by preparing for, then debating, whether or not cheerleading should be considered a sport.
Illustrative Mathematics
Illustrative Mathematics: 8.sp.4 Music and Sports
This task looks at a possible relationship between playing a sport and playing a musical instrument. Students collect data from classmates, summarize the data into a two-way table, make some observations, and construct a bar graph of the...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Arthur: Good Sport
Play catch with students, and help them practice being good sports. Talk to them about winning and losing, and explain that it's not if you win or lose, it's how you play the game.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Science of Everyday Life: The Everyday Science of Sports [Pdf]
A lesson plan where students learn about the physics behind golf balls. Students evaluate different designs of golf balls to understand how their design impacts their function. After their evaluation, students will try to improve the...
Council for Economic Education
Econ Ed Link: The Economics of Professional Sports: Underpaid Millionaires?
Over the last century, professional baseball has grown to become one of the most popular forms of American entertainment. Indeed, the sport's nickname - "America's Pastime" - has become embedded in the nation's lexicon. More than 60...
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