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JOURNEY TO THE WORLD CUP

Learning Intentions:

 

Playing football requires training and fitness. It is both a team and an individual journey. Every player makes a commitment to themselves and their teammates to be match fit and bring their A-game.  
 

Learning intentions for this experience are:

  • Investigate individual journeys and challenges.

  • Understand that skill and fitness contribute to enjoyment.

  • Create a game pool schedule.

Kōrero | Discussion:

 

  • Why do people play football or futsal?

  • What behaviours and values are shared amongst players?

  • What does it take to be in a national team? For example, training and fitness.

  • Do you think game pools are a fair way of organising a tournament? Explain your views.

  • What is another way of organising a tournament?

Ngā ngohe | Activities:

 

Sports reporter

  • Select one or two countries who played in the FIFA Women's World Cup 2023™

    • What is the history of football in the country?

    • Who did they play in the qualifying rounds? 

    • What were the highlights of the games?

    • Who was in the team? What do you find most interesting about the country,  team or players?

    • Identify the following features of the country:

      • Location, names, flag, capital city.

      • Greetings. 

      • Interesting facts and statistics. 

  • Record audio or visual interviews, or write a report or story; or create a timeline poster or mural to share what you have learned.

 

Local leagues and legends

  • Identify someone in a local football or futsal team you can interview about what they enjoy about football or futsal. 

  • Create a script of questions, or storyboard an interview for an audio or video recording. Include the following:

    • Whakapapa.

    • What they enjoy about football or futsal.

    • Where they play and train.

    • Interesting personal stories and highlights.

  • Record your audio or video documentary or write an essay about them. 

 
Game pools

  • Organise a team tournament for football or futsal. This could be a global, local or school-based event.

  • Investigate and design a game pool. Refer to New Zealand Football for examples.

  • How are participating teams chosen?

  • Identify how many teams, pools, and games? 

  • Decorate your pool chart with flags or icons from each country.

  • How many playing fields will be needed? 

  • Which games will be played concurrently and which will be played consecutively? 

  • How many games would the winner play if there were 20, 12, 104 or 10 teams?

  • Use a coin or dice to decide the outcome of each game. For example, heads or the highest number wins.

  • Complete the pool chart as you go. 

  • Keep playing and identifying winning teams until there is one winner. 

  • Make a game pool for your football festival. 

Kuputaka | Glossary:

 

Consecutive: one after another.

Concurrent: at the same time.

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Photos courtesy of Phototek

As the country hosts a series of major sporting events over the next few years, Sport New Zealand is leading a project called 'In Our Backyard' with the Ministry for Business, Innovation and Employment and four national sporting organisations to further shape learning with sport in schools and kura.

 

The project complements the Healthy Active Learning initiative, a collaboration between Sport New Zealand and the Ministries of Health and Education, within the context of the Child and Youth Wellbeing Strategy, to improve the wellbeing of tamariki through healthy eating and drinking and quality physical activity.

In Our Backyard at Sport NZ
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