| 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 |
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