Back to School Team Building Writing Activity - Sports Mash-Up Assignment

Back to School Team Building Writing Activity - Sports Mash-Up Assignment: Use this engaging back to school video team-building activity where students will develop a new sport that combines and mashes up elements from other different sports. The best part is that your purchase comes with a hand-drawn video, created by the talented John Spencer, that introduces the activity to hook students in!

How This Back to School Team Building Sports Mash-Up Activity Works:

• Students watch a hand-drawn video that introduces the activity to students. This video is highly engaging and will hook your students immediately. Watch the video preview on the product page to get a sneak peek.

• Use the eye-catching PowerPoint presentation to introduce the activity in more detail to your class and guide you through each element of the lesson and activity.

• Use the instructions, graphic organizers, checklists, handouts, and teacher rubric to implement the icebreaker team building icebreaker activity.

What's Included in This Back to School Team Building Sports Mash-Up:

➡️ Introductory Video: Use this highly engaging hand-drawn video to introduce the sports mash-up activity to students. The video explains that students will develop a new sport by combining elements of different sports together.

➡️ Teacher instructions: Use the detailed teacher instructions to guide you in successfully using this back to school sports mash-up activity! You'll feel totally confident implementing the lesson with these instructions.

➡️ Teacher Presentation: A PowerPoint presentation is included to guide you through all elements of the lesson and activity.

➡️ Brainstorming Page: Students can use this brainstorming page with prompting questions for students to consider both sports they already know and new sports and what elements they might want to combine.

➡️ Sports Mash-Up Idea Development Page: Students will then dive deeper into their new sport by completing this idea development page. They will consider how to get points, how to win, how many players, how to keep players safe, player positions, rules, the playing area, equipment, and more.

➡️ Rough and Good Copy Pages: Students will draft the rough draft of the summary of the rules and directions for playing their new sport and use the checklist below to improve it before completing a good copy on the template provided.

➡️ Peer Editing Checklist: Students will have a peer look over their rough draft to find any inconsistencies or questions they have after learning about this new sport. This will ensure that the student has worked out any issues that might disrupt the game.

➡️ Teacher Rubric: Assess the final product with this quick and easy-to-use rubric.

What Teachers Are Saying About This Back to School Team Building Sports Mash-Up Activity:

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My students had a lot of fun coming up with new sports. They were very engaged in this activity.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is a detailed resource that students seem to be enjoying. I'm also having my students "sell" us their sport by creating an advertisement. The class will vote based on the presentations which sport they'd like to try to actually play.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My original thought was to use this resource as a back to school activity as suggested. However, time slipped away from me and I am now planning on using it as the first activity we do after winter break. I love how complete this resource is. From the attention grabbing video to the step by step organizers to help keep students on track with their writing I predict this will be a hit.

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