EXPLORING SPORTS AROUND THE WORLD BUNDLE

Add some excitement to your social studies curriculum—and save 20%—with the Exploring Sports Around the World Bundle, a collection of eight resources that are suitable for any time of the year.

Featured Sports:

archery, baseball, basketball, bowling, cricket, cycling, field hockey, football (American), football (soccer), golf, ice hockey, lacrosse, rugby, swimming, table tennis, tennis, volleyball

Additional Vocabulary Words and Phrases:

backspin, championship, goalie, Olympics, penalty, serve, Stanley Cup, Super Bowl, Tour de France

Book and Poster Resources Included:

• Top Ten Sports Around the World is a 15-page “cut-and-glue” book containing “stats,” historical information, and a vocabulary/comprehension review.
• Top Ten Sports Poster illustrates the world’s favorite sports with colorful photographs.

Cross-Curricular Activities Included:

• And the Winner Is...highlights famous sports trophies
• Sports in America uses puzzles and mystery clues to contrast the most popular sports in the world with the Top Five sports in the United States.
• Sports Matching Cards features fifteen colorful photo cards of sports equipment and fields.
• Sports Search is a word search puzzle that contains the names of twenty popular sports and games.
• Which Sport? is a critical thinking activity based on descriptive sports vocabulary.

Targeted Skills:

• Identifying major world sports
• Identifying historic athletes
• Matching sports with sports equipment
• Building content area literacy in social studies
• Increasing reading fluency and comprehension
• Developing critical thinking skills of problem-solving, reasoning, comparing, and contrasting

Sample Pages: Please see the preview for sample pages from the bundle. To view additional preview images, click on the thumbnails shown above.

Image Credits: This bundle features realistic illustrations and real-life photographs. The illustrations are my own original drawings (©Dr.J). The photos come from a variety of sources, including copyright-free images, copyrighted images licensed under the Creative Commons, and copyrighted images that I have purchased for commercial use. Please see the Image Credits Pages, included with the Activity Pack, for a detailed list of image sources.

Technical Info: The files are in PDF format. The activities are combined into a single zip file.

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Teaching with TOOBS®: SPORTS

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