Materials
equipment for several different games or sports (skates, various sports balls,tennis racket, baseball bat, football helmet, hockey helmet, protective pads, sunvisor, baseball cap, types of sports shoes, and so on)large chalk or wide tape
Instructions
1. With the chalk or tape, make a Venn diagram (interlocking ovals) on theground or floor.
2. Discuss pairs of sports, encouraging the children to put all the items for onesport on one side of the diagram, and all the items for another sport on theother side.
3. Ask the children to put items they find in common in the middle, interlockingspace. Here's an example of tennis and baseball equipment:* Tennis: ball, racket, tennis shoes, net, sun visor, white clothes* Baseball: bat, glove, hat, ball, base, uniform* Interlocking section: head coverings, balls, athletic clothing4. Discuss how the sports' equipment and rules are both similar and different(such as tackling or not touching, team vs. individual games).Note: This activity can be adapted by using pictures of the articles in place ofthe actual items and taping the pictures on a Venn diagram drawn on a board.
