Lesson Plan: I Was Wondering About Sports and Fairness

Great Thinker's Challenge: 

Create an original “Classroom Olympic Game” (physical activity or sport) that is “fair” for participants to play. Think critically about the basic components of the activity and identify the features of the game that make it “fair” to demonstrate an understanding of ethics and healthy competition. Play games created by other students and consider how the rules of an organized physical activity affect participants in terms of safety, respect, accessibility, and personal enjoyment. 

Learning Objectives:

• (Health and Physical Education) Identify and apply basic components of physical activity in a game, including: movement skills, game structure, basic rules, and conventions of fair play and etiquette. 

• (Health and Physical Education) Develop rules and value systems around fair play and healthy competition through personal engagement in decision making and problem solving activities. 

• (Health and Physical Education) Make connections that relate personal choices and behaviours with the health and well-being of oneself and others. 

• (Health and Physical Education) Demonstrate responsibility for personal safety and the safety of others while participating in a physical activity. 

Materials/Preparation:

• Equipment for physical activity (e.g., balls, nets, buckets or baskets to be used for goals, lengths of ribbon or string, electrical or painter’s tape for floor markings, found or repurposed objects, such as empty cereal boxes or cardboard tubes) 

• Poster paper, pencils, markers, or crayons 

• Small, medium, and large sized leaves, cut out of repurposed cardstock (e.g., from a cereal box) or paper from the recycle bin 

Grade Range: 2-5

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