Popular Games and Sports in Kenya
Game:
Sports:
- Football (soccer) — favorite sport
- Rugby
- Cricket
- Volleyball
- Field hockey
- Horse racing
- Running/Marathons
Lesson Plan Ideas:
- Read the description of how to play Mancala – have small groups create their own Mancala board using egg cartons (instructions are given) – PLAY!
- Read description of Cricket and have students try to play it – – or give the description to the gym teacher to play during gym class.
- Check out videos online of each sport being played.
- Allow students to play some online African games during free time in the computer lab.
- http://pbskids.org/everything.html (cool site of fun activities that deal with Africa)
- http://africa.mrdonn.org/games.html (African games)