Zimbabwe

Game:

• checkers

Sports:

• soccer
• basketball
• tennis
• cricket
• lawn bowling

(Rogers, Barbara R and Rogers, Stillman D. Zimbabwe. New York, NY: Children’s Press, 2002.)

Lesson Plan Ideas:

1. Play checkers! 🙂
2. Read description of Cricket and lawn bowling and have students try to play it – – or give the description to the gym teacher to play during gym class.
3. Learn more about Henry Olonga (Cricket player/musician/artist) at http://www.henryolonga.net/container/
4. Check out videos online of each sport being played.
5. 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)