Week Three Touch/African-American Athletes
Lesson One: Using the same poster from weeks one and two, students discuss and identify the sense of touch. The hands on the poster are then labeled and the poster is saved for later use.
Lesson Two: The students are introduced to the life and achievements of Jesse Owens. Emphasis is placed on not only his athletic accomplishments, but his importance in history with relation to Hitler and the 1936 Olympic Games. Then, the class proceeds to the gym and learns how to do an official track start. Boys and girls are split into two groups to run short running races with track starts.
Lesson Three: Students are introduced to Jackie Robinson, Arthur Ashe, Althea Gibson, Tiger Woods, Venus Williams, and Serena Williams. Using imaginary sports equipment, students learn how to swing a baseball bat, golf club, and tennis racket. Students are then shown pictures of the athletes in a PowerPoint presentation. (Pictures are from the American Memory and other websites.)
Lesson Four: Students pick one athlete that they learned about in the last few days and draw a picture of that athlete performing in their sport. Students may write words and sentences to show other information they learned about their athlete.
Assessment: Students are graded on their work in lesson four.