The Adaptive Toolkit contains all the instruction a new program needs to start from scratch and learn how to organize and run an adaptive clinic. While the primary audience is startups, the kit is useful to...
Tennis 4 Learning activities use the court, tennis games, tennis history, and tennis skills as opportunities to explore not only tennis, but also a multitude of life-enhancing and academic skills. Problems which seem dry and difficult in the traditional classroom are transformed into visual, physical, fun activities on the court or at alternative tennis venues like parking lots and gymnasiums.
Welcome Adaptive Startups! The Toolkit provided here should include just about everything you need to get your program started. We’ve anticipated that most, if not all, of your coaches are volunteers and not pros. Therefore, in addition to a complete series of lesson plans, we’ve included basic foundational coaching information and some tips for coaching athletes with disabilities. Read More…
Toolkit for All Coaches
This content, to be completed in May of 2026, includes principles of high performance coaching which is dynamic, engaging, productive and fun! Principally, how can we vary the tennis learning/coaching...
T4L Tennis in the Classroom Series
Video #1 Lesson Plan
Video #2 Lesson Plan
Video #3 Lesson Plan
Video #4 Lesson Plan
Show and Tell Tennis Bag
ITN Special Olympics Assessment
T4L Mathematics
Explore and drill arithmetic operations, geometry, fractions, ratios, percentages, theorems and formulas. Measure the court using conventional and unconventional tools, mark and measure shots and throws. Play games and...
T4L Technology
The tennis court is a great place to learn about a wide range of tech topics including cameras/optics, sonar/radar, internet-connected devices (IoT), racquet technology, string technology, low compression ball...
T4L Physics
Explore Newton’s Laws of Motion, leverage, light, sound, trajectory, temperature. Catapult tennis balls, launch big dice using a lever and a fulcrum, use photobeams as start/finish lines for relays, measure...
T4L Brain Power
Set up the court with activities to explore the power of the human mind. Play games to learn about memory, pattern recognition, and visualization. Develop strategy and tactics to win points in games, vary the rules and...
T4L Life Skills
Life skill-building on the tennis court includes a full range of sportsmanship, group, leadership and teamwork activities to reinforce relationship and conflict resolution principles. Practical essential skills such as...
T4L Health and Wellness
Explore topics including fitness, nutrition, injury prevention, aerobic/anaerobic exercise. Test endurance, strength, flexibility, and balance. Measure heart rate and oxygen absorption. Turn the court into a grocery...
T4L Geography and History
Tennis history is an opportunity ‘learn how to learn’ geography and history more generally. Lay out a tennis history timeline on the court, match up events in tennis history to world events, learn about...
T4L Planet Earth
Learn about the sustainability of the planet and related best practices. Set up recycling reinforcement activities and efficient energy generation experiments. Illustrate green and zero waste reinforcement principles...