Cricket is one of the world’s most popular sports, engaging more than one fifth of the world’s population.
Across Australia, cricket is an integral part of our culture and is acknowledged as the nation’s most popular summer sport with more than 1 million participants.
In 2015, cricket’s most prestigious global tournament was held in Australia and New Zealand, the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015. To celebrate one of the biggest sporting events on the planet, and the Ashes series in England in July and August, Cricket Australia created Cricket Smart to help create a fun and engaging learning environment across Australian schools.
Aligned to the Australian Curriculum, Cricket Smart helps students to grasp and retain knowledge using cricket as a teaching tool. Teachers have access to cricket-themed lesson plans, including high quality tools and resources to enhance their students learning experience such as short-films starring some of Australia’s best cricket players. Similarly, the Student Zone provides tools, resources and other materials for students to help complete tasks and activities.
Cricket Australia in partnership with education specialists has developed Cricket Smart to help create a fun and engaging learning environment across Australian schools.
Cricket Smart helps students to grasp and retain knowledge using cricket as a teaching tool. To assist students to understand key concepts and develop their research skills, all subjects are accompanied by short films starring some of Australia’s best cricket players!
Cricket Smart focusses on six core and emerging subjects, including:
Year 4: Are you a force with which to be reckoned?
This unit is designed to support the physical sciences element of the curriculum and investigate the concept of forces. It draws on the teaching opportunities arising from the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 that was held in Australia and New Zealand in February and March 2015, by analysing some of the contact and non-contact forces that play a vital role in the game of cricket. Students will be involved in a series of simple experiments and activities that will allow them to collect data and draw conclusions; and then design a more sophisticated experiment to permit deeper analysis.
Year 5: Mathematics – Are numbers the real game?
This mathematics unit draws on the teaching opportunities arising from the two latest ICC Cricket World Cups; the ICC Women’s World Twenty20 that was held in March and April, 2014 in Bangladesh (which Australia won) and the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 (Men’s) that was held in Australia and New Zealand in February and March, 2015 (which Australia also won). Students are required to use data about the players to select the best possible team in either World Cup Competition (that is a “World XI”).
Year 5/6: Hosting an ICC Cricket World Cup 2015 Event
Your students will investigate the human, natural and capital resources needed to host an ICC Cricket World Cup 2015, analyse the pros and cons of the various stakeholders, then design and present an address to the class, acting as the local business community.
Year 7: Place and Liveability – Making Your Place Even Better
A comprehensive guide to engaging your students in investigating the place and liveability of the home towns of four high profile cricketers. Students will evaluate the liveability of their own area and will investigate whether it can be improved through planning.
Year 7-10: Eyes on the prize – a design and innovation challenge
In this unit, ‘Eyes on the Prize’, students will explore the rich history of the ICC Cricket World Cup through the evolution of the impressive trophies presented to winning teams taking part in international cricket competitions. Students will work together and individually, explore cutting edge digital tools and create a realistic three-dimensional model of a proposed trophy for the winning team of the ICC Cricket World Cup 2015.
Year 6: A Case Study of Fawad Ahmed
This unit covers the real life story of an Australian sporting hero, Fawad Ahmed and his journey of migration, hardship and sporting excellence.
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