STEM Soccer Activities & Curriculum
for Grades 3-5 & 6-8
Enhance students’ STEM skills with STEM soccer activities and curriculum
STEM SOCCER
CURRICULUM
"My students had the opportunity to participate in the Soccer STEM program. I have spent two years with most of these students and this experience was the first time I have seen them truly invested and engaged in the learning process. My classroom became student centered, where they were controlling the discussions, and inquiry that followed the modules, not me."
Haley Mercy
Mesquite Junior High School
Our STEM Soccer program has the perfect touch and trappings to create a robust curriculum that juggles between classroom-style teaching as well as on-the-pitch learning opportunities. There are no penalties for learning this way because we use soccer as our real-life application.
Crossing the spectrum of the sport, the STEM Soccer curriculum touches and tackles several different lessons throughout the eight-module program and features:
- The importance of properly inflated soccer balls and how molecules respond inside the ball
- Learning how active play and burning calories correlates
- The Engineering Design Process as students create their own goal line technology
- Calculating the probability of penalty kicks. Students will be able to predict the number of penalty kicks by using a model from collected data
It is our goal to make your students critical thinkers, better problem solvers and skilled collaborators. The STEM Soccer program will do just that and explain the science that is behind the world’s most popular game. This program will provide an invaluable assist so that students can lap the field with their STEM literacy and future career paths.
STEM SOCCER PRODUCTS
STEM SOCCER CURRICULUM
Grades 3rd, 4th & 5th
Grades 6th, 7th & 8th
Grades 3rd, 4th & 5th
Module 1 – Juggling and Energy Transfer
Module 2 – Calculating Calories and Heart-Rate
Module 3 – Measuring Throw-Ins
Module 4 – Soccer vs Futsal Ball Systems
Module 5 – Air Molecules in Ball Tuning
Module 6 – The Goal of a Soccer Field
Module 7 – Goal-Line Technology
Module 8 – Probability and Penalty Kicks
Grades 6th, 7th & 8th
Module 1 – Calculating Throw-Ins
Module 2 – Heart Rate And Calories
Module 3 – Effective Ball Travel
Module 4 – Synthetic vs Natural Materials
Module 5 – Pressure and Molecular Motion
Module 6 – Area of Shooting Spaces
Module 7 – Goal-Line Technology
Module 8 – Probability and Penalty Kicks
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Each STEM Soccer kit comes with one (1) STEM Soccer Curriculum Manual, six (6) size five soccer balls, six (6) regulation size futsal balls, six (6) 25-foot tape measures, 24 disc cones, five (5) heart rate monitors, six (6) digital stopwatches, five (5) training pinnies, two (2) bells, four (4) tent pegs, one (1) roll of string, one (1) roll of masking tape, one (1) pressure gauge, two (2) ball bags, one (1) ball pump, and one (1) set of inflation needles.
No experience or previous knowledge of golf is required to teach this curriculum. Our STEM Sports Soccer manual includes all of the necessary information about the sport and the science behind it to properly implement the curriculum.
Each manual contains content for a minimum of 16 hours of instruction that includes healthy, physical activity. All of the supplies in the kit are non-perishable and are designed to last for several years. Some supplied items may need to be replaced over time.
STEM Soccer includes activities and lessons surrounding calculating calories burned during game play, learning how molecules respond inside a ball, and much more.
Yes, lessons are designed for use in both indoor and outdoor settings. A grass field is recommended for ease of implementation.
Yes, digital resources are available for all of our STEM Sports kits by visiting the digital tools link found in your curriculum manual.
Each curriculum has eight lessons aligned with Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and/or Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and/or National Standards for K-12 Physical Education.
