Play the game

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

Objectives

History

  • Understand how our knowledge of the past is constructed from a range of sources.
  • Construct informed responses that involve thoughtful selection and organisation of relevant historical information.

PE

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

Lesson Planning

Have a tennis tournament based on the rules of one of the historical games.

Teaching Outcomes:

  • To work out the rules of various tennis-like games from historical sources.
  • To play tennis-like games.

Children will:

  • Deduce information from different historical sources
  • Synthesize information from historical sources
  • Play tennis games with modified rules

You Will Need

  • Tennis racquets
  • Balls
  • Space for a court