Football Theme

I have a dear friend, Rose, who has inspired this post.

Do you have a kiddo who absolutely loves football? Use this passion as a way into learning. You can use the football theme to teach practically anything this year in your home school. Here is what I mean.

Social Studies:

• Have your child create football trading cards that include information about important historical figures.
• On a map locate where the home stadiums are for each NFL team.
• Create a time line of the history of football.

Math:

• Convert yards into feet.
• Throw a football around the backyard, make an estimate for the distance it went, and measure it in feet and in yards.
• Calculate someone’s quarterback rating.

Science:

• Investigate gravity. How long does the ball stay in the air and how high does it have to go?
• Investigate wind resistance. Why is the ball oblong?
• Investigate properties of materials. What makes leather hard when it gets cold?
• Investigate conservation of energy and conservation of momentum. When a player is tackling another, how fast does the light person have to be going to stop the heavy person? (f=ma, e=mv²)

Writing:

• Write a series of newspaper articles on key players for each team.
• Create a series of letters that one of the players would write to family members. They should be written as if the player is actually writing.
• Write a research paper on one of the players.
• Write a fictional story about a football.

Handwriting:

• Write the NFL teams’ names in cursive.
• Write sentences about football in cursive.
• Make a football shaped book for spelling words that are inspired by football written in cursive and in sentences.
  

  

Reading:

• Read newspaper articles about the players.
• Read any available biographies on the players.
• Read football inspired stories.
• Research the rules for the NFL.

This is just the tip of the iceberg, so be creative! Have fun learning through football!

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