Resources for this Week's News-2-You: Tiger Woods

Internet Resources

• Role Model on the Web: Tiger Woods
• Kids Choice Awards Tiger Woods Profile and Video/Quiz
• Tiger Woods Official Site
• Video of Tiger at his kids center on CBS news
• Single Switch Golf Games at One Switch
• online coloring of a golf picture
• World Almanac for Kids: Golf History

Math

• work on one to one correspondence by matching one golf ball to one tee (hammer the tees into florist foam so they will stand up)
• count out sets of nine or eighteen tees
• using colored tees extend or make patterns
• do a golf maze
• work on estimation by filling a jar with golf balls or tees and having a guessing contest
• work on probability by filling a box with assorted color tees and graphing the probability of pulling out a certain color
  

Science

• work on measurement by putting golf balls (real or foam) and measuring how far they go, then compare and graph

Social Studies

• study the history of golf
  

English/Language Arts

• golf word search (easier) and another
  
• golf word search (hard)
  

Arts and Crafts

• golf yarn bug
• golf bear craft
• golf ball painting (put a large sheet of paper in a cardboard box and secure with tape, using adapted pouring cup have student pour in some paint of their favorite color, drop in several golf ball and have students shake the box from side to side to "paint"
• golf picture frame
• table top mini golf
• golf coloring page and here is another and here is a whole set
  

Sensory

• sensory box filled with sand, tees and golf balls - even more fun with grass (real or fake)
• hit golf balls (or larger balls) from a tee (or water jug, or other DIY tee) with a real or toy golf club (or just hands or feet) from a platform swing
  

Adapted P.E.

• indoor mini-golf
• adapted driving range practice
• table top mini golf
• do some golf stretches
  

Cooking

• iced "tee"
• titlest cheese balls (scroll down, aqua colored box)
  

Community Based Instruction

• local driving range
• miniature golf
• sports store to do a golf equipment scavenger hunt