You too can contribute to this site.  Add a website, an idea and anything you are doing related to the geography of sport.  

What about the inequalities of sport?  Who makes sporting gear?  Please send us your ideas and weblinks! 

The Olympics is nigh - Beijing 2008; London 2012.

Cricket - Compare the geography of cricketing nations, compared with football or other sport. England are playing the West Indies and New Zealand this spring and summer.

Football - How about the geography of the champions league?  Is there a relationship between GDP per capita and success? Population and numbers of teams allowed!

Disability - relationships between the nations' wealth and success in Para Olympics etc.  

Women in sport - the geography of sports played by women - Which are women only? Where are they played and why? Compare Netball with Basketball, Golf with Football.  

kate.russell@staffordshire.gov.uk

Football Fever Unit of Work

Kate Preston is a PGCE student at Goldsmith's College, London and as part of her course she has created this enquiry unit called Football Fever.

World Cup Project

Sally Sanders from Brewood Middle School has updated her World Cup Project. Most are writing frames and tables to support pupils' enquiry and collection and presentation of work. Right click on each file to download. 

Country factfile writing frame
Distribution of World Cup Countries
World Cup Countries
Title page for your own project
England Squad
Germany and Stadiums
Groups
History of the World Cup
World Cup Project review
Websites for World Cup

More information from www.fifaworldcup.yahoo.com/06 and the

More World Cup lesson ideas and activities from Geo Interactive, Oxfam Cool Planet, NAACE and the GA's pages

Bring on the World (www.oxfam.org.uk/coolplanet/bringontheworld) uses football as a springboard to explore global issues including the sportswear industry, whether competition is 'a good thing', and the inequalities between participating countries. It helps pupils learn about the countries involved in the World Cup, and includes a 'country trumps' card game, mapwork, debate, and photo activities.Bring on the World offers teachers the choice of either five mornings (2.5 hours x 5) or five whole days of activities (2.5 + 2 hours x 5) - ideal for an Activity Week in the Summer Term. The resource uses different teaching and learning methodologies which engage all pupils, and emphasises foundation subjects, literacy and English. It develops thinking and debating skills, research abilities, and teamwork. There is comprehensive background information for teachers, and a scheme of work.

Inspired by the ideas and suggestions from this website, and others suggested by the contributors to the SLN forum, Kevin Burndred, Newcastle Community High School, Staffordshire, has been doing a World Cup project. "The kids have really enjoyed them and the piece of work that is attached is fantastic."  This work was done by Sarah Toplass, a Year 9 pupil. It is a graph to show how many countries from each continent actually qualified for the finals tournament (Antarctica excluded of course) incorporating the flags of each nation into each bar.

Don't you just love the zoom in at the start of the matches? Record it as a stimulus for constructing nesting maps.

Graham Jackson Small Heath School, Birmingham has sent a couple of map work exercises that have been drawn up based on the forthcoming (and very exciting!) Euro 2004 championships in Portugal. With a good school atlas and the maps of Europe (to show the competing teams) and Portugal (to show the different venues for the matches) pupils can practice using compass directions, scale and measuring distance in addition to improving their general locational knowledge and atlas/map-reading skills.

Download - venues and competing teams they are word documents about 2-300kb each

Thanks also to Steve Thomas of Cardinal Griffin High School, Cannock  for this geographical enquiry into Euro 2004

Why not split the class into pairs - give them each a team and work out where they all play their club football....and then relate the number of players playing in each country to GDP per capita.

Millennium Point, Birmingham

A fantastic exhibition of football photos from all round the world. I was particularly struck by football being played in all sorts of adverse conditions.

Details and a few samples available www.rhubarb-rhubarb.net/05-exhibitions.asp

Andy why not visit the new TIDE Centre 0121 202 3290 www.tidec.org while you are at it.

City Derbies at Football - Where are these clubs?

It is simple - you have two clubs names... City and United or Spartak and Dynamo.... all you need to name the City.  You have to be able to spell them . Thanks to Graham Ranger for forwarding me this excel spreadsheet.  I am a sad, as I managed 48/60. Can anyone top this? I didn't realised I liked football that much. The names must have seeped in. Adapting this spreadsheet must be able to make something more useful.

Geoweb TV 

This has a 'Sporting Planet' a web channel where young people can raise awareness of the geography of sport. You will find a mapping exercise on the globalisation of English football. There is a great site on the geography of the six nations Rugby Union championship.

Rugby World Cup

Fiona McCarthy, Cleeve School, Cheltenham has kindly adapted these worksheets based on the geography of Rugby 

Download these documents:

Rugby world cup ws.doc

Rugby world cup matching countries to continents.doc

Birmingham Global Championship City

Dr Rachael Peryer Cromwell Community College Wenney Road Chatteris Cambs PE16 6UU has offered this work on the the event in Brum, this weekend.

Download these files

1.1 The IAFF Indoor Championships in Athletics tasks 173kb

1.2 The IAFF Countries 40kb

1.3 The IAFF Writing Frame 25kb

World Sporting patterns for more able students

Steve Smiths independent learning  approach att King Edward VII School in Chelmsford, students investigate world sport.

Download and have a look at these:

World tennis map and data 350mb
World athletes map and data 170mb
Male Olympic Medal winners 130mb
Female Olympic Medal winners 130mb

Here are the instruction and assessment  sheets

Sporting fever offers other ideas for you.

Edgecliff High School - World Sport - Decision making and route planning

John Sharkey has developed some excellent map skills and decision making  in conjunction with the QCA unit of work called World Sport.
The full story & downloadable files here!

Sporting fever offers other ideas for you.

Commonwealth Games Project

Sally Sanders from Ryecroft Middle School in Rocester is happy to share these resources with you which she has created to support pupils' cross curricular projects on the Commonwealth Games. Most are templates, writing frames or tables for pupils to research and complete. You may wish to download them and edit them for use with your pupils.

Design a Pennant (art task)

Locate the countries (needs a world map adding)

Commonwealth Countries

Country Factfile

ICT task 1

ICT Task 2

Literacy Task 1 (Comprehension)

Literacy Task 2 (Letter / postcard)

Numeracy Task 1

Numeracy Task 2 (data handling - medals table)

Title and Title page

World cup predictor

With thanks to Adrian Taylor, St Mary's High School, Chesterfield for this challenging World Cup Teaser that he has prepared to kick us off. Excuse the terrible pun.   

Download the brief and the spreadsheet by right clicking and 'save target as'

Adrian Taylor's World Cup Teaser - The Brief and The Spreadsheet

The main world cup site which has country profiles.  I am not sure whether a class could create one for themselves using other sites.

but the BBC has a good one too at http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport