The Super Bowl is coming to MN and I couldn’t be any more excited! I am a huge fan of all things celebrity, and I love my home state, so this is the perfect mash-up in my world! And although I am bummed about the Vikings not being a part of the Super Bowl, I thought I would capitalize on this and throw a Super Bowl themed “party” in my classroom! The entire week leading up to the big game, I am going to transform my room with a football theme. #SetTheStageToEngage
To start, I actually reached out to parents in my classroom to supply football themed snacks and drinks (orange gatorade) as well as fun decorations! The response I’ve gotten have been pretty overwhelming, so my students are going to walk into a fun, decked-out room on the 29th!
Brief history on how American Football came to be and has changed throughout the years. With close reading tasks to complete along the way, the students will be practicing good reading strategies while learning about the sport.
Math
We complete one of these Solve and Colors monthly and my students love trying to figure out what the mystery picture is while practicing their multiplication and order of operations
Social Studies/Science
Students will be doing some quick writing on their iPads using these writing prompts and then choosing one of the topics to expand upon and turn into a final piece!
Math
Using the scores given, students find the Mean, Median, Mode, and Range of the data. {FREEBIE}
Social Studies/Science
Bouncing Ball Experiment by Laura Candler. Students go through the scientific method process using various sports equipment, including a football.
Thursday, Feb 1
Reading and Language
Students will use the football phrases (like TOUCHDOWN) to make as many other words as possible, scoring points. While this activity could be done alone, I may have my students do it in teams and then play it Scattergories style where they only score points for words other groups didn’t think of!
Math
Both of these {FREEBIES} look great! My students are going to love using their knowledge of order of operations to try and score a “touchdown” by finding the target number. They will also practice their multiplication facts trying to fill out the score cards for various teams with this fun math challenge.
Social Studies/Science
{Nothing planned, we have Band this day so many of my students leave the class.}
Friday, Feb 2
Reading and Language
My first degree is in Advertising so this lesson is very exciting; learning about the power of persuasion and ad tactics! I hope we can introduce this and talk about it, giving students the task to come back after the Super Bowl with their favorite commercial to analyze! {FREEBIE}
Social Studies/Science
We will be looking more into the history of football as well as how footballs are made using this video: How it’s Made: Wilson Leather Football (YouTube Link). I am still looking for other sites and activities I want to do for this.
There it is, my football themed week! Do you have any other activities I should sneak in or do the week following the big game? If so, drop them in the comments below, as I am always looking for fun things to do to engage my class.
