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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