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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Geometric Shapes: Spheres, Ellipses & Prolate Spheroids
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Geometric Figures, Professional Development, Physics, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 8 additional..NBC's Lester Holt explores the prolate spheroid, the three-dimensional shape of a football, and how it helps an NFL quarterback ...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Newton's First Law of Motion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: People in Science, Professional Development, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Physics and 4 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at Newton's First Law of Motion and the role that unbalanced forces play whenever a ball carrier goes he...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Newton's Second Law of Motion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: People in Science, Cells, Professional Development, Physics and 6 additional..NBC's Lester Holt and former NFL kicker, Morten Andersen, look at what's really behind powerful field goal kicks — Newton's Seco...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Newton's Third Law of Motion
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Chemical Reactions & Stoichiometry, Properties of Matter, People in Science, Professional Development and 12 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at Newton's Third Law of Motion and the role that conservation of momentum plays whenever players collid...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Nutrition, Hydration & Health
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Classification, States of Matter (solids, liquids, gases), Career & Technical Ed, Professional Development and 19 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at the physically demanding pre-season ritual of NFL training camp. Douglas Casa, head of the Korey Stri...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Projectile Motion & Parabolas
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 6 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at the science of projectile motion and parabolas with the help of former NFL punter Craig Hentrich. NSF...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Pythagorean Theorem
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Geometric Figures, Professional Development, Physics, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 9 additional..NBC's Lester Holts explores the path a defender must take in order to tackle a ball carrier, and how this distance — called the ...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Torque & Center of Mass
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 6 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at how the physics concepts of torque and center of mass are applied in football by some of the games mo...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkScience of NFL Football: Vectors
Grades: PS/Pre-K to 12Subjects: Professional Development, Physics, Measurement, Tools, and Data Analysis, Education, Child Development & Family Services and 9 additional..NBC's Lester Holt looks at the role vectors play every time an NFL quarterback throws a pass. With the help of former NFL quarte...Contributor: Science of the NFL (NSDL Collection)Views: 0Favorites: 0