Football Activities for the Big Game
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Looking for fun football activities? The Big Game unit is a collection of integrated activities that focus on football that are sure to get your students ready for any big game, including the Super Bowl!
This unit includes 14 activities - enough to keep your students engaged and excited about the big game through every subject of the day:
- Football Concessions: Math - Students solve money problems about concession items at the Super Bowl. This activity includes 24 task cards with QR codes for self-checking, a recording page, and an answer key.
- Scoreboard Math: Math - Students solve football-related scoreboard problems. This activity includes 20 task cards, a recording page, and an answer key.
- Paper Football Math: Math - Students create their own paper footballs and measure the distances traveled. Includes follow-up problems to solve. (paper footballs not included)
- Super Bowl Cheer: Writing/Drama - Students write a cheer for their favorite team using parts of speech, rhythm, and rhyme. This activity includes a projectable directions page and a writing page for students.
- Super Bowl Commercial: Writing/Drama - Students write a must-see TV commercial to present to the class. Includes writing and visual pages, as well as directions.
- The Ultimate Halftime Snack: Writing - Students write a "How-To" providing ingredients and directions for creating the ultimate halftime snack for the Super Bowl.
- Football Shaped Book: Writing - Students can publish their own football-themed stories in this shape book. (primary and intermediate lined football paper included). This activity also includes several writing prompts for students who may have trouble thinking of football-related stories to write.
- Touchdown Making Words: Language - Students manipulate letters from the word "touchdown" to make new words. This activity includes 4x6 letters to use in a pocket chart and an independent making words page for students.
- Football Compound Challenge: Language - Students roam the room to find the other two students holding words to make a compound word "chain." An answer key is included.
- Qualities of a Champion: Reading/Language - Students create flipbooks telling how they have demonstrated qualities of a champion using vocabulary words.
- Teammates Class Book: Reading/Writing - After reading Game Day or Teammates by Tiki and Ronde Barber, students will brainstorm other famous "mates" or "pairs" and use a pair to create a class book page about teammates. This activity includes food pair cards, a brainstorming page, a class book page, and a cover page for binding the class book.
- Super Cities: Social Studies - Students will research the two teams' cities and record important information on a chart to share. A PowerPoint file is also included for primary teachers to share this information with their students.
- Sports Jersey Glyph: Art/Math - Students will create a sports jersey glyph and complete a scavenger hunt activity. Includes 2 jersey templates, glyph directions, and an activity sheet.
- Super Bowl Ticket Designer: Art/Math - Students will design their own Super Bowl tickets for this year's game using math-related guidelines.
Grab the Big Game unit now to get your students excited about learning through the big game!
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