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Sports Card Industrial Arts!Real World content is the backbone of sports card Industrial Arts. Student skill sets from all the subject areas are integrated here in practical, skilled, and imaginative ways. If one of your course objectives is to introduce your students to the history of a specific item – tools, pattern-making, design, plastics forming – you can always lead in with a sports card. You might even work up a simple co-op project with, say, the history department. One project … two separate evaluations from two different points-of-view. 
Set 1 Individual, Survey, Research, History, Design, Manufacture, Mechanicals Choose a single piece of equipment shown on a sports card, from footwear to headgear to field equipment. Set 2 Survey, Data collection, Community Resources, Research, Presentation, Discussion Using sports cards from one sport, compile a list of equipment that requires care and repair. 
Set 3 Individual, Research, Design, Manufacture Design a box to hold one set of cards from a single sheet of poster-board, light cardboard, or shaped plastic. If you work with a subject teacher in another department, you each will identify the one or two subject-specific features you will each look for to assess a mark to record for the activity in your subject. As a research topic with a sports card as the report format, you can double up on student interest and simplify your marking load.
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