Friday, February 19, 2016

Proposal for a Legislative Resolution

RESOLUTION
WHEREAS...
Children play,

WHEREAS...
Children acquire language,

WHEREAS...
Children's bodies understand the feeling of various forces that they experience while at play – whether in the playground or on the playing field – or in any other daily activity,

WHEREAS...
Massachusetts has long been a leader in education and has a vast sports infrastructure,

THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED THAT:

...Children be helped to learn basic scientific principles in the playground and through the sports and games that they enjoy.

...Their working vocabulary be expanded to include words such as Friction, Gravity, Energy, Momentum, Axis of rotation, Inertia, Trajectory, Potential energy and Kinetic energy, Torque, Angular momentum, Lift, Air resistance, and Elastic collision, for example.

...STEM / STEAM be amended to STEAMS:
Science – Technology – Engineering – Arts – Mathematics – Sports

...The following specific recommendations be developed, modeling for other states how this can be done:

  • sports camps
  • preschools
  • after-school programs
  • professional development for teachers and coaches
  • methods courses in education programs
  • high school and college level Physics of Sports courses, with the gymnasium as the applied physics lab
  • sports stadiums via activities and Jumbotron

...The Commonwealth of Massachusetts take the lead in developing this approach to science education – one that is natural, logical, and fun (and long overdue).

...Form an institute dedicated to teaching people how to do this.


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