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Baseball Stories, Cards and Interviews
Everyone can be an MVP! Young learners create their own baseball cards about themselves in this autobiographical instructional activity. They use information about their lives to create a baseball trading card. They make flash cards...
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Lions, Tigers, and Slugs? Oh, My!
Explore the power of words with your class by analyzing the connotations of fictitious sports team names. Learners discuss team names and the mental images they convey. They create logos to illustrate the meanings and connotations of...
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Calories in Sports
This 4-page worksheet includes information on caloric intake and output, an activity/calorie chart, and a form for calculating the amount of calories in various foods. A good introduction to calories.
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Sports and Science
Using footballs, basketballs, tennis balls, and more, learners conduct experiments to illustrate Newton's Laws of Motion. The experiments are conducted outside, and require them to throw, kick, and hit a variety of balls. Your class...
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Interview with a Famous Athlete
Teach your learners how to conduct an interview. English learners will learn the language patterns behind asking questions and creating answers through sentence frames and pictures though the topic of famous athletes.
ESL Kid Stuff
Sports
Sports and sport-related vocabulary are the focus of a lesson designed for language learners.
Museum of Disability History
Adaptive Sports and Recreational Games
It's truly amazing how people with physical disabilities are able to find ways to overcome their impairments. Their tremendous perseverance is evident in this handout that describes the ways different sports, ranging from bowling...
Pimsleur
Sports
Teach your class how to talk about sports in Italian! Learners watch a video, read a short interview, interview their classmates, learn the names of various sports, practice some specific grammatical tasks, and more.
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Adapted Physical Education: Softball
Review adaptive physical education suggestions and standards for coaching the fundamentals of softball: base running, throwing, fielding, and hitting (batting). This outline provides ideas and progressions for developing softball skills,...
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Adapted Physical Education: Track and Field
Here you'll find a list of ideas and activity descriptions for hosting an adaptive physical education or special olympics event. It includes the setting, rules, and pointers for over 10 different track and field activities.
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The World Cup
For this grammar worksheet, students complete a ten question multiple choice on-line interactive quiz about World Cup soccer. Students read the sentences and select the correct word or phrase that correctly fits in the blank.
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Sport as Social Ritual
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.
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A Victory for Tiger Woods
What's up with Tiger Woods? Find out by reading a sports article describing an upswing in Tiger's career. Interested readers will scan the article to answer nine comprehension questions. Note: A secondary related article and blog post...
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Hats And Bats Puppets
Students engage in a lesson that is concerned with the concept of creating a hand puppet centered around the theme of sports. The lesson includes the steps needed to create the puppets and then students could discuss their favorite sports.
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Go Team!
Students discuss their favorite sports team, their challenges and the team players. They create and design pennants and banners n their school's colors. Students write messages on the banner. They may organize a school pep rally.
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South America Quiz 1
In this South America instructional activity, students complete short answer questions on the rivers, countries, sports, and more about South America. Students complete 10 short answer questions.
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Sports and Hobbies
Students explore vocabulary related to sports and hobbies. They consider their interests in sports and hobbies in relation to other students. They discuss music and describe a piece of music using simple adjectives.
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Wrestling
In this reading comprehension worksheet, students read a one paragraph text about wrestling. Students answer one multiple choice question.
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"Olympic Sports" Wheel Search Puzzle
After unscrambling the letters of 15 Olympic sports, language learners locate these words in the rings of a word search puzzle. No answer key is provided.
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The Shapes of Sports
Bring shapes onto the pitching mound! There are two diagrams here depicting a basketball court and a baseball field. Learners identify the shapes they recognize on each. They get a little guidance for the first one, but you should note...
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Jackie Steals Home
Learners draw on their previous studies of American history and culture as they analyze primary sources from Jackie Robinson and Other Baseball Highlights, 1860s - 1960s in American Memory. A close reading of two documents relating to...
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Sports and Olympics - Word Puzzle
Volleyball, table tennis, skiing! ESL/ELL learners first unscramble the letters in words associated with Olympic sports and then locate these terms in a colorful word scramble. An answer sheet is provided.
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Leisure Vocabulary Terms
Introduce your language learners to different sports and leisure activities. Cut out the sixteen flashcards here, and set up a station for your learners to flip through them and acquire the target vocabulary.
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Sports: Adaptive Sports Brochure
Students identify the items and events that make adaptive sports possible. For this adaptive sports lesson, students research how accomplishments are obtained for people with disabilities. Students research different tournaments,...