Football Lesson Plans

This lesson has learners research the history of football. In this football history lesson, learners discuss football and study various positions on an overhead. This lesson has learners complete Internet research to find two ways the game of football has changed throughout history. This lesson has learners write a report on their research and view a video about the history of the Super Bowl. This lesson has learners write a summary of the video, research pro football teams, and locate the teams on maps through the decades.

Students practice football skills. In this sports lesson, students are divided into two teams, form a line, and given one football to practice throwing and catching techniques.

Students use estimation to solve problems.  In this middle school mathematics lesson, students analyze picture of football stands to make estimates in attendance at the Super Bowl.  Students also make estimates about the television audience.  Students judge the reasonableness of their answers and explore the range of answers that might be considered correct. 

Students explore British football. In this current events lesson, students visit the National Football Museum, the Scottish Football Museum, and the Manchester United Museum online or in person to discover the history of the game as well as its future in Great Britain.

In this lesson students practice throwing and catching a football in a dynamic setting. The quarterbacks throw passes to their receivers. If the receiver catches a pass, then they jog back to their quarterback area and they become a quarterback.

Students gain a better understanding of what they know about punting a football, by filling out a peer evaluation checklist.

In this lesson learners gain a better understanding of what they know about catching a football, by filling out a peer evaluation checklist.

In this lesson students gain a better understanding of what they know about throwing a football, by filling out a peer evaluation checklist.

This lesson has students create an autobiography. In this writing lesson, students use a life map as a graphic organizer to develop their autobiography.

Students use the quadratic formula to solve application problems. The first problem relates to the path of a football thrown from the top of the bleachers. Students compute the time it will take the football to reach certain heights. In the second problem students find a mathematical model to predict the stopping distance of a car. Finally, students use the quadratic formula to generate the number of diagonals for an n-gon.