T4L is 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 players and records to put current players in context.

Subjects, TopicsActivities
Events, Countries, ChronologyPlay games as four teams representing four countries of the slams, use a few native language words as part of the games
Build a tennis history timeline across the court (event markers with flash cards)
Match up historical world events with tennis history
RecordsBuild local player (this class) win/loss records as context for considering best pro records all time