About This Lesson
This age-appropriate lesson plan explores the athletic achievements of bisexual Olympian Babe Didrikson Zaharias, whose professional achievements in the sports world remain largely unrivaled even 70 years after her untimely death. Though known most famously for being the co-founder of the Lady’s Professional Golf Association (LPGA), Didrikson’s superlative, record-breaking competitions across over a dozen sports have earned her consideration as possibly the greatest athlete – male or female – that has ever lived. Like all Legacy Project lesson plans, this document highlights four different learning tracks according to James Banks's multicultural education model and Bloom's Taxonomy. Tracks 1 - 4 are roughly structured to align with the cognitive retention and synthesis capabilities of students from early-to-mid Elementary School (Track 1); late Elementary-to-early Middle School (Track 2); late Middle School-to-early High School (Track 3); and early-to-late High School.
Suggested Study Subject Integration: Sports/Athletics, Women’s History, LGBTQ History
