Science and Sports

Looking for another way to introduce your kids to science?  Try sports!  If you have a child who is active in any sport, you have a great opening for introducing him/her to science.  Every sport is filled with science, whether it's swinging a bat/racket or putting the proper spin on a football/soccer ball.  You can't play sports without using science.  It's impossible.

A great place to get ideas on how to combine science and sports is this Sports Science Project Ideas site.  It's filled with lists of different science experiments involving sports.  It's organized by different difficulty levels so you should easily find something that is appropriate for your child's age.  

With the start of school my daughters and I have been busy with other things, but just the other day my 6 year old asked when we were going to do another science experiment. (Proud Daddy moment!) With winter weather still several months away, I think we'll find several sports science experiments to do this fall.  It'll be a nice break from the many chemistry and physics experiments we've done over the last several months.