Football STEM Activity Super Bowl Lesson

Are you looking for ways to integrate football and acknowledge the Super Bowl in your science curriculum? These two football related activities will allow you to do both. This football lesson includes two cooperative learning science activities; a football lab lesson and a goal post STEM activity. Both are perfect for celebrating the Super Bowl! In addition, your students will love learning more about their interests and how it relates to real-life science.

Students will:

• Work collaboratively with one another,
• Build on their measurement data collection and analysis skills,
• Interpret data,
• Design and engineer a goal post.

This lesson includes:

• Sneak Peek into My Classroom: Tips and ideas on how to implement these activities into your classroom
• Student worksheets for the football activity: Students will measure the length of their foot to see if it impacts the distance kicked.
• Digital Google Slide version of the printable worksheets
• Materials list for the STEM activity
• Student worksheets to walk them through the creation, design, and engineering of their goal post
• Rubric to assess student work

These activities can discuss force, motion, design, and engineering. They also make for real-life science connections around the Super Bowl.

Feedback from teachers:

• I used this with my self-contained high school special education unit, and it was super fun! Will definitely do it year after year! Thank you!
• EVERYONE loved this activity! Even my non-sports-lovers got into it! Thank you!
• A fun activity for a Super Bowl themed day.
• My students said this was the best activity of the year!
• We have done this as the lead-up to the Super Bowl. Again, this was a hit with my girls!

How to use this activity in your classroom:

• Set up science centers in your classroom so that students can practice using their science skills as they prepare for the Super Bowl.
• Integrate the activities into your measurement or scientific method unit.
• Use as a Fun Friday activity
• Great for before or after holiday breaks

Other lessons to support this unit:

• Force and Newton's Laws of Motion Unit
• Winter STEM Activities

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