CERCA Slides: Sports and Games in History

CERCA Slides by Grade

grade_3

Grade 3: A Good Goal

How do sports help people from different backgrounds and parts of the world connect with one another?

CCSS.RI.3.2
CCSS.W.3.2

grade_4

Grade 4: American Quarter Horses

What can studying Quarter horse racing teach us about how people lived in a particular time and place?

CCSS.RI.4.2
CCSS.W.4.1

grade 5

Grade 5: The Basics of Lacrosse

Does lacrosse show that sports and beliefs can be connected?

CCSS.RI.5.2
CCSS.W.6.1

grade_6-8

Grade 6–8: Capoeira: An Art For Everyone

Does capoeira show that cultural expression can be a way to resist oppression?

CCSS.RI.6.2
CCSS.RI.7.2
CCSS.RI.8.2
CCSS.6.W.1
CCSS.7.W.1
CCSS.8.W.1

grade_9-10

Grade 9–10: The Olympic Boycott, 1980

Was the reasoning behind the US boycott of the 1980 Olympics justified?

CCSS.RI.9-10.2
CCSS.W.9-10.1

grade_11-12

Grade 11–12: Creation of Title IX

Do the sources support the claim that Title IX changed the lives of American girls and women?

CCSS.RI.11-12.2
CCSS.W.11-12.1