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Miscellaneous Science ActivitiesTeachers: The following are classroom science activities for you and your students toenjoy. Feel free to adapt or copy these ideas to suit your classroom.PERSONAL FOOTBALLS: Let the children experiment with mixing together differentcolors of paint to make the color brown. Then have them use their brown paint to paintlarge football shapes on pieces of butcher paper. Display their football pictures aroundthe room.ANIMALS, ANIMALS: Make a list of team mascots that are animal nicknames. Havestudents choose one animal and find out ten facts about that animal. Make a class bookincluding the ten facts on each animal. Have the students illustrate their pages. After thebook is completed, donate it to the school library so other students can read and learn!COLORS OF THE GAME: Using the team colors (this information is generally listed onthe individual team websites. Students can access the team sites throughProfootballhof.com) have students create a color wheel for the 32 NFL teams. This canbe done with crayons, colored pencils, markers, or paint. Students can then try to guessthe team from only the colors. Another activity using the team colors involves paintmixing. Mix a variety of the team colors together and see what different colors theycreate. Name some of the creative colors. Ask students to mix certain colors together tosee what they get. Example: Mix the Detroit Lions colors together. What color do youget? Mix the Chicago Bears colors with the Minnesota Vikings. What color do you get?Create your own combinations.INVENTIONS: Divide students into cooperative groups. Each group develops aninvention that will be used to improve the game of football by making it faster, safer, ormore exciting. Have the group members write a brief explanation of their invention anddraw a picture or construct a model. Groups then should present and display theirinventive ideas.SCIENCEDetroit Lions Edition 97 Pro Football Hall of Fame Educational Outreach Program