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Bodden, Valerie

Football

24 pp. | Creative Education | January, 2016 | Library ISBN 978-1-60818-655-6 $19.95 | Paper ISBN 978-1-62832-234-7 $9.99 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-56660-686-8
(3) K-3 Making the Play series. Linking science to sports, each volume makes physics concepts accessible to elementary-age readers. Eye-catching visuals and simple texts explain how concepts such as force, mass, and inertia affect performance in these sports. Each book includes a final hands-on activity (not sports-related) to test the concepts (e.g., in Football, using a garden hose to test projectile motion). Reading list, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers the following Making the Play titles: Basketball, Baseball, Football, Golf, Soccer, and Volleyball.
Reviewer: Carrie Harasimowicz Sullivan

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