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.
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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.
National Museum of Science and Industry (UK)
Ingenious: Sport and the Technology of Winning
Has technology improved or hindered sports? This question is researched in the areas of tennis racket engineering, disability sports equipment, and high tech horse racing.
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...
Other
Is the Use of Advanced Materials in Sports Equipment Unethical?
This site discusses sports equipment design, the impact of advanced materials used for running, pole vaulting, bicycling, tennis, golf, and baseball, along with other ethical considerations.
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...
Language Guide
Language Guide: La Ropa Del Hombre
Colorful pictures come alive with the Spanish pronunciation when the mouse points to them. In addition, the Spanish word pops up showing the correct spelling for each new vocabulary word.
US National Library of Medicine
Medline Plus: Videos Y Multimedia
Online presentations on more than 150 health topics, diseases, and conditions, from acne to viruses. Each plays as a slide presentation, with sound, that you can control or set to autoplay. Time varies from 5-20 minutes. Available in...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Arthur Ashe
This brief biography of athlete Arthur Ashe describes his rise to fame in the world of sports, his work as an activist and his diagnosis of HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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.
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Libraries: Innovators Gallery
Who invented the tennis racket, Crayola Crayons or Tupperware? Smithsonian site invites users to explore the achievements of a variety of American innovators and inventors.
Library of Virginia
Virginia Memory: Arthur Ashe
What are the characteristics of a person worthy of being a member of the Human Being Hall of Fame? A champion of human dignity around the world, Arthur Robert Ashe overcame the discrimination he faced growing up in Richmond to become a...
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.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: 10 Olympic Starters
These 10 questions encourage students to explore mathematical modelling in the context of several different sports including track and field athletics, shooting, football, tennis, basketball and gymnastics. This activity is designed to...
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...
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: The Ultimate Roller Coaster Contest
Middle schoolers 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...
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.
Library of Congress
Loc: America's Story: Althea Gibson Won Again!
Althea Gibson made it possible for the Williams sisters to play at Wimbledon. As the first African-American to win that title, she was a pioneer. See photos and read more about her on this Library of Congress site.
Black Past
Black Past: Ashe, Arthur
In this short encyclopedia entry, you can read about Arthur Ashe, professional black champion. There are links to other websites for more information.
Other
Ricardo "Pancho" Gonzales
This article provides a detailed profile of the tenner player Ricardo "Pancho" Gonzales.
Trent University
Mas Arriba: Actividades ( Ar Verbs)
This resource allows students to practice using expressions with -ar verbs in the present indicative tense. Read the sentences, view the picture and type in your response. To check your answer, listen to the audio or click on the drop...
Other
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There are thousands of learning vacations and fun career programs here to choose from. What would you like to learn about?
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