Active Enrichment – Sports Themed Activities across the Curriculum

Introduction

Active Enrichment: Sports Themed Activities across the Curriculum by John Senior offers 100 sports-themed extension activities for use across the curriculum, using students’ enjoyment of sport to enrich learning throughout their secondary school.

Summary of contents

Active Enrichment provides activities and materials that can meet the enrichment needs of the gifted and talented student, and those of a broader able audience. Many of the activities can be used for extension and enrichment with larger groups than is normally associated with gifted and talented children.

• ten-minute enrichment and early day activities suitable for home, on the way to school or at school – either as physical-intellectual tasks, practical activities or discussion tasks
• lesson-length activities, which can be extended from a lesson into a day and from a day into a term and beyond
• day-long enrichment and extended projects, which can be the beginning of life-long interests and the starting point for exploration of other enrichment to be explored
• after-school and extended-day enrichment activities or discussion starters that are aimed at stimulating thinking on the way home or after school.

Benefits

This resource will help you to:

• support your students’ growth as independent learners
• meet the need for intellectual challenge for children through involvement in sport
• direct your students not only to an appreciation of sport but also to having fun and gaining pleasure from thinking
• challenge and stretch your students as much as possible and enable them to prosper through achievement.

Chapter breakdown

Themed enrichment and extension activities
How to use the activities – Activity 2 – ‘Building winners’
TEN-MINUTE AND EARLY-DAY ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES
The species team
Building winners
Exercise as you learn
Activity tables
House gym
High and low: managing success and failure
Collectable observations
The tin of soup game
Fishing by magnet
First, second and third place
Opening ceremony
Can’t get it out of my head
The healthy classroom
LESSON-LENGTH ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES
Going for a walk
Food for fans
Supporting the supporters
What are they looking at?
Winners eat veg!
Why green for grass?
Dreaming success
A sport for all
Thinking nets
Sport in space
Racing through time
Sunsets
Darts and dartboards
Manners maketh the sport
Lottery sports writing
Behind the scenes
The lessons of sport in business
Feet
Superstition in sport
How fast are you running?
The perfect trophy
Adapting bodies
Added value
Winning names
How far could your school run?
How far can you see?
Olympic legacy
The umpire’s decision is final
Competition and cooperation
Olympic mascots: past, present and future
The new events
Climate change and sport
Paroemiologically speaking, ‘Look before you leap’
Olympic employment
Future shop
English rose
Design an Olympic garden
Should there be a Children’s Olympics?
The Olympic anthem
Olympic stamps
Official Olympic artist
The right answer
Olympic maps: how to get there
Animals in sports
Solar system Olympics  
DAY-LONG AND EXTENDED ACTIVITIES
A better bat – a better ball
Winners wear red
Playground makeover
Game pictures
Faster!
Sport: the musical
Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy golf
For all to see
Body painting
Game in a game
Marathon
Cirit
The art of sport
The history of cpyce, for example
Getting around
‘King of Games, Game of Kings’
Olympic links
Sport in literature
Sporting follies
A museum of sport
The London Olympic medal
Naming the sports stars and constellations
Healthy success
The Olympic flame
The first person to…
Triathlon triptych, a cross-stitch tapestry
Hopscotch revisited
The art of surfing
Travelling into the future
Land-locked regattas
The sporting holiday of a lifetime  
AFTER-SCHOOL AND EXTENDED-DAY ACTIVITIES
Tipping up the Chelik
Improving applause
Home school – school home
Wristbands?
Win, win and win!
Future memories and echoes
Stepping out
When and why did we invent playing?
Tepe
Do not try this at all!
Rainy day PE
Go faster
Closing ceremony  
GENERAL RISK ASSESSMENT  
EVALUATION AND REVIEW
 

Details

Loose-leaf, 296 x 210, 234 Pages, Published 01/06/2006