Play the game

Topics Year 2/3
This unit is part of Sports Tournaments History of Cricket

Objectives

PE

  • Play competitive games, modified where appropriate, (for example, badminton, basketball, cricket, football, hockey, netball, rounders and tennis), and apply basic principles suitable for attacking and defending.

Maths

  • Yr 3: Present data using bar charts, pictograms and tables.
  • Yr 4: Present discrete and continuous data using appropriate graphical methods, including bar charts and time graphs.
  • Yr 5: Solve comparison, sum and difference problems using information presented in a line graph.
  • Yr 6: Interpret and construct pie charts and line graphs and use these to solve problems; calculate and interpret the mean as an average.

Lesson Planning

Play a game of cricket, modifying the rules as appropriate and given what children already know about managing the risk of playing this game. Keep track of batting scores to work out batting averages.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To play a game of cricket.
  • To work out batting averages and make a bar chart of them.

Children will:

  • Take part in a game of cricket.
  • Keep score of team and individual runs.
  • Work out their own batting average and contribute to a class bar chart.

Provided Resources

  • The rules and roles of cricket
  • Cricket scoresheet

You Will Need

  • Bat
  • Wicket
  • Ball
  • Protective equipment