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

Grade 3, Sports
Content
Area(Theme):

Focus Area

Thematic
Questions/
Objectives

Centers

Arts Integration

Using
everyday
materials to
create an
Olympic
sport/
activity.

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
material
s
provide
d by the
teacher.
The
team
will
create
their
Olympic
sport.
Once
the
teams

Technology
Integration
(References,
Software and/or
Resources)
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.

Assessment
and/or Rubric
Scale

Student
Products or
Portfolio

Common Core or PA
Standards

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.

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.

Language Arts

are
finished
creating
their
sport,
they will
have a
chance
play
other
teams
sport
creation.
Characters, Students
After
setting, and will listen
my
plot. Also
to me read
readthe order in the book
aloud
which
Olympig.
with the
events occur Who were
class
during a
the main
students
read-aloud. characters
will split
in the
into
story? What groups.
did you
Students
learn about will be
the
given
characters? picture
Where did
to put
the story
into
take place? chronol
Can you
ogical

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
interpret information.
them
throughout
the classroom.

Mathematics

Measureme
nt and
comparing
different
sizes.

describe the
how the
place
looked?
What were
some
important
events
throughout
the story?
Students
will learn
how the
different
types of
measureme
nts.
Students
will be able
to measure
different
objects
used in
sports.
Students
will be
asked to
measure a
tennis
racket, a
hockey

order.

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

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.

stick, and a
baseball
bat. They
will then
have to find
out which
objects is
the longest
or widest.

Science

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

shortest.
Instead
of
writing
the
objects
names
then will
have to
draw
their
objects
in the
correct
order.
Student
s will be
counting
their
classmat
es heart
beats
after
different
activitie
s.

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.

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.

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

Social Studies

Sports
around the
world/
Geography

on the
activity
they are
doing.
Students
will be
introduced
to different
counties
around the
world.
Students
will
understand
how
different
countries
play
different
sports.

Students PC computers
will be
provided by the
using
school.
books
and
compute
rs to
research
countrie
s and
their
sports.

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
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.

Student
project will be
their collage
that they
created.

7.1.3.B. Identify and

locate places and
regions as defined by
physical and human
features.