iStage 3 - football in science teaching

How do you calculate the perfect flight curve of a football? What type of grass is used at football grounds and why? And how big is the environmental impact of football events like the European Football Championship? Football offers a great variety of questions and issues for your STEM classes: 20 teachers from 15 European countries developed twelve teaching units, presenting interesting experiments around football for biology, chemistry, computer sciences, maths and physics. From measuring the mass of the air inside the ball, to the influence of energy drinks on the players’ performance up to calculating the chance of scoring during a penalty shoot-out the brochure contains a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary challenges for secondary school students. The various teaching units encourage them to discover the natural scientific phenomena behind the popular game.