| Subjects, Topics | Activities |
| Electronic Line Calling | Use smartphone with high speed camera to film balls hit or thrown close to a sideline and/or service box back line |
| Racquet and String Technology | Compare low and high tension racquets |
| Old racquet demo day, racquet and string technology timeline | |
| Ball Technology | Trace the history of the tennis ball, including relatively recent “quick start” low compression balls |
| Video Analysis | Use smartphone and frame-by-frame app (CoachesEye) to discover swing nuances (serve, groundstrokes) |
| Radar/Speed Gun | Compare serve speeds using alternate techniques (loose ‘fingertip’ grip, for example) |
| Subjects, Topics | Activities |
| Events, Countries, Chronology | Play 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 | |
| Records | Build local player (this class) win/loss records as context for considering best pro records all time |
| Subjects, Topics | Activities |
| Teamwork | Build a human chain to hand off tennis balls or racquets or both, moving them from one location to another in a pattern (e.g. 3 balls, 1 racquet), creatively make rules and have a race |
| Build a Rube Goldberg contraption | |
| Cooperative Play | Partner-up and set records or compete for most rallys, most balls moved from point to point per unit time, and/or combination of physical and mental tasks (record answers on markerboard) |
| Sportsmanship, Conflict Resolution | Introduce bad judgement/behavior in situational play, ask players to find resolution |
| Currency | Collect tokens representing currency to accumulate a specific amount or to make change |
| Subjects, Topics | Activities |
| Memory | Play “concentration” game with big cards (remember cards by location) |
| Memorize footwork and stroke skill patterns as drilling games | |
| Memorize (visualize) a series of numbers, perform a drill sequence, recall numbers | |
| Pattern Recognition | Create patterns with cones and spots (colors, like objects, up/down), identify them, create drills which mimic them |
| Match sound patterns, possibly drum rhythms, to visual patterns (Morse Code), use patterns in game context to change modes (run on pattern 1, walk on pattern 2,…) | |
| Visualization | Visualize trajectory and landing spot to improve depth of shot |
| Develop a shot selection strategy, vizualize depth and angles, drill to master | |
| Strategy & Tactics | Develop strategy and tactics to win a cooperative success partner rally competition |
| Develop strategy and tactics to win short court points |
| Subjects, Topics | Activities |
| Sustainable Energy | Assemble a wind turbine kit (inexpensive demo kit), measure stored energy |
| Assemble a solar collection kit (inexpensive demo kit), measure stored energy | |
| Recycling | On court race to sort recyclables |
| Zero Waste | Set up court areas representing the 5 R’s, put flash cards at each area, play a tennis “board game” which progresses through each area |
| Subjects, Topics | Activity Examples |
| Fitness | Build fitness vocabulary using drills & skills which relate high performance tennis to fitness vocabulary: endurance, strength, balance, flexibility. |
| Endurance drill: Continuous movement contest | |
| Strength: Side plank contest | |
| Balance: Balance on one foot and juggle or catch a ball contest | |
| Nutrition | Turn tennis court into grocery store, “stock the shelves”, and shop for each food group |
| Injury Prevention | Use non-dominant hand skill contests to illustrate need for balanced training |
| Drill and exercise using exaggerated athletic stance, lower center of gravity — learn how prevention and performance go hand-in-hand | |
| Aerobic/Anaerobic Exercise | Measure O2 and Heart Rate before/during/after tennis drill exertion to learn about types of exercise and how the body works (optionally blood pressure) |
| Subjects, Topics | Activities |
| Newton’s Laws of Motion | Catapult tennis balls to explore force, gravity, and trajectory |
| Leverage | Launch big dice using a lever and a fulcrum to learn about leverage |
| Light | Use photobeams as start/finish lines for relays |
| Sound | Measure (approximate) the speed of sound at a bank of tennis courts or court plus adjacent field or open field (250+ feet) |
| Trajectory | Use ball machine as a launchpad — game to predict and mark landing zones |
| Temperature | Determine and explain the effect of temperature on the bounce of a tennis ball |
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 build statistics from results.
| Subjects, Topics | Activities |
| Arithmetic Operations | Roll the big dice to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division |
| Measurement | Measure singles baseline length using racquets as the unit of measure |
| Measure the court using unconventional tools and units of measure | |
| Measure the court using conventional tools and units of measure | |
| Measure the court using high tech measuring tools | |
| Have a non-dominant arm throwing contest to learn to mark and measure | |
| Geometry | Measure diagonals on tennis court, learn to stripe a court |
| Measure court area and compare the court to other sport surfaces | |
| Fractions, Ratios, Percentages | Roll the big dice to learn about fractions and practice basic math skills |
| Measure in-play area as a percentage of total court area with runaround space | |
| Theorems and Formulas | Measure and calculate the length of a tennis court hypotenuse using Pythagorean Theorem |
| Measure a tennis obstacle course to learn about “rate x time = distance” | |
| Statistics | Play short games, track and interpret win/loss statistics |