This article highlights a range of opportunities for involving students in C3 Framework inquiries using sports as a guiding theme.

The selected websites provide lesson plans and student activities for teaching about this year’s 100th anniversary of the U.S. entry into World War I. The Surfing the Net column also appears as a blog at connected.socialstudies.org/blogs

Babe Didrikson pushed gender limits, fought social stigma, and broke records. Suggested teaching activities will engage students in research and critical thinking about Didrikson and why her vast achievements are largely unknown.

Integrating sports into the classroom offers an engaging opportunity to explore issues of culture, race, gender, religion, and sexual orientation with K-12 students.

An examination of inherent racial and social inequities in professional sports may give students deeper insight into the systemic inequities that plague our society as a whole.

Studying skateboarders and skate teams can trigger an interesting classroom inquiry about socialization and group identity.

An interactive website offers rich teaching materials for a lesson on Negro League ball players and their experiences free of segregation in Latin American winter leagues.

A close examination of global soccer opens the door for students to tackle a host of political, social, and economic issues.

Investigating and discussing pick-up sports offers students an opportunity to see direct democracy in action.

The selected primary sources can inspire a lesson on the historical connection between community building, citizenship education, and school athletic programs.