Thematic Unit Planning Matrix- One daily/weekly lesson, 45 minutes, for 1 month.

Grade 3, Sports
Content
Area(Theme):

Arts Integration

Focus Area

Using
everyday
materials to
create an
Olympic
sport/
activity.

Thematic
Questions/
Objectives

Centers

Technology
Integration
(References,
Software and/or
Resources)

Assessment
and/or Rubric
Scale

Student
Products or
Portfolio

Students will
be able to
pick an
Olympic
sport of their
choosing,
and create
the game
using
everyday
materials.

Student
be placed
into
teams.
Each
team will
be given
materials
provided
by the
teacher.
The team
will
create
their
Olympic
sport.
Once the
teams are
finished
creating
their
sport,

Students will be
show a video of
Olympic sports
from a PC
computer. Each
group will have
their own PC and
will watch the video
together. This will
help the student
gather some ideas.

Will observe
each groups
finished
Olympic game.
I will also
observe the
teams playing
other teams
Olympic sports.

The groups
Olympic sport
creation using
everyday
materials.

Common Core or PA
Standards

9.1. Production,
Performance and
Exhibition of Dance,
Music, Theatre and
Visual Arts 9.1.3.
GRADE 3 H. Handle
materials, equipment
and tools safely at work
and performance
spaces.

they will
have a
chance
play other
teams
sport
creation.
Language Arts

Characters,
setting, and
plot. Also the
order in
which events
occur during
a read-aloud.

Students will
listen to me
read the book
Olympig.
Who were
the main
characters in
the story?
What did you
learn about
the
characters?
Where did
the story take
place? Can
you describe
the how the
place
looked?
What were
some
important
events

After my
readaloud
with the
class
students
will split
into
groups.
Students
will be
given
picture to
put into
chronolog
ical order.

I will use the

internet to provide
picture from the
story. These picture
from the internet
will be given to the
students to put into
chronological order.

Students will
glue their
chronological
picture onto
poster board to
present to the
class.

I will collect
CC.1.2.3.E Use text
each groups
features and search
poster board, tools to locate and
and hang them interpret information.
throughout the
classroom.

throughout
the story?
Mathematics

Measurement
and
comparing
different
sizes.

Students will
learn how the
different
types of
measurement
s. Students
will be able
to measure
different
objects used
in sports.
Students will
be asked to
measure a
tennis racket,
a hockey
stick, and a
baseball bat.
They will
then have to
find out
which
objects is the
longest or
widest.

The
students
will be
given
sports
objects to
measure.
They will
have to
decide
which
object is
the
longest
and put
them in
order,
longest to
shortest.
Instead of
writing
the
objects
names
then will
have to
draw their
objects

I will familiarize
the students with
the different types
of sport objects by
show them picture
online.

II will collect
the students
work when they
drew their sport
objects from
longest to
shortest after
they measured
them.

The student
product will be
the drawing
that the
students
complete of
their objects.

CC.2.4.2.A.1 Measure
and estimate lengths in
standard units using
appropriate tools.

in the
correct
order.
Science

Social Studies

Sports and
exercise can
help keep our
heart healthy

Students will
be able to
understand
that their
heart beats at
different
rates.
Students will
understand
that their
heart beats at
different
rates
depending on
the activity
they are
doing.

Sports around Students will

the world/
be
Geography
introduced to
different
counties
around the
world.
Students will
understand
how different

Students
will be
counting
their
classmate
s heart
beats
after
different
activities.

I will show the

students a video of
how people feel
with they exercise
and how they feel
when they are at
rest. I will use a PC
computer and a
classroom projector.

Students PC computers
will be
provided by the
using
school.
books and
computer
s to
research
countries
and their
sports.

I will have the

students write
down their
classmates
heart beat on a
piece of paper. I
will have the
students present
their findings to
the class.

Students will
hand in the
results they
gathered after
recording their
classmates
heat beats
during different
activities.

I will have the

students choose
a sport and a
country that
they enjoyed
learning about. I
will have the
students create a
collage. The
students will

Student project
will be their
7.1.3.B. Identify and
collage that
locate places and
they created.
regions as defined by
physical and human
features.

Standard - 10.4.3.E
Identify reasons why
regular participation
in physical activities
improves motor skills.

countries
play different
sports.

write the sport

at the top and
then create a
collage on the
computer or
from magazine
that relate to
their sport and
their country.