Interactive Football Top Trumps Game Activity for Year 3 Students

Engage Year 3 students in a fun and educational activity centered around designing and playing Top Trumps cards featuring famous footballers from Euro 2016. Students will research player statistics, create cards, establish rules, and play the game with classmates to enhance literacy and numeracy skills. Helpful resources and a clear activity breakdown are provided for easy implementation.

• Interactive game
• Top Trumps
• Football
• Year 3
• Euro 2016

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1. Curriculum Area: Maths and Numeracy Lower Key Stage Two Year 3 Euro 2016: A Welsh Curriculum Resource for 7-11 year olds

2. Task There are many talented famous footballers playing in Euro 2016. Using the Top Trumps game as a basis, research, design and create cards to play with your classmates.

3. LNF Skills and Curriculum Coverage LNF Literacy (Year 3) 3.RA3 make links between what they read and what they already know and believe about the topic 3.WS4 present processes in a clear sequence LNF Numeracy (Year 3) 3.N3 compare and estimate with numbers up to 100 3.N12 - find differences within 100 3.N16a check subtraction using addition

4. Time Limits Introduce task and discuss information on the Top Trump card 1 lesson Understand how to create rules and create Top Trump rules for the class - 1 lesson Research missing information from the fact sheet given 1 lesson Design the back of the Top Trump cards 1 lesson Create 4 Top Trumps cards 1 lesson Play the game with your classmates following the rules created 1 lesson

5. Activity Breakdown 1. Introduce the activity. 2. Discuss the game Top Trumps. 3. Explain the term rules and why they are important in a game like Top Trumps. 4. Define each word on the Top Trump card. 5. Discuss the reliability of different sources (books, websites etc.). 6. Research the missing information to complete the table on each Top Trump player. 7. Hand out templates (4 Top Trump cards each). 8. Create Top Trump cards and design the back of the cards. 9. Colour and laminate, making sure each pupil s initials are written on the back of each card so that they can retrieve their cards at the end of the game. 10. Discuss why rules are important in games. 11. Decide what rules must be enforced before the game is played. E.g. do you win the card if the goals are higher or lower than your opponents? 12. Play Top Trumps against other class members.

6. Useful Resources, Websites and Books Uefa.com Teams - http://www.uefa.com/uefaeuro/season=2016/teams/index.html BBC Football Euro 2016 How to play Top Trumps - http://www.toptrumps.com/how-to-play-top- trumps/ How to decide on rules Top Trump card templates PDF Teacher Model and Definitions - PowerPoint Player Statistics (to be updated by pupils) Word Doc Euro 2016 Promo video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiQ7e5_yny4

7. Success Criteria Can you... Understand the activity? Know what information needs to be on the Top Trump card? Research information using reliable sources? Create the Top Trump cards? Cut out the Top Trump card once it s been laminated by an adult? Discuss and decide on the rules of the game? Play fairly?