Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Science of Football


The folks at NBC Learn, the educational arm of NBC News, have done it again.

You may remember a January 2010 posting about the science behind the Olympic games.
Now, in partnership with the National Science Foundation and National Football League, they unravel the Science behind Professional Football through a thoughtfully narrated and annotated series of video clips. Each video segment/lesson, has a "flip cue card option". This option "flips the video screen over and provides general information and a description of the clip, keywords(which could easily be the vocabulary portion of the lesson),and a link to Lessonopoly, a free software portal developed by Silicon Valley Education Foundation.

Video segments/topics include: Newton's Laws of Motion, Geometric Shapes, Kinematics, Nutrition, Hydration & Health, Projectile motion, Torque and Center of Mass and the Science of Football Vectors