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Name of Activity: Free Radicals Attack!!

Academic content: science

Purpose of Activity: To review and practice soccer dribbling/ball handling skills while learning basic concepts of how free radicals and antioxidants affect the body.

Prerequisites: basic dribbling/ball handling skills

Suggested Grade Level: 3-5

Materials Needed: soccer balls (roughly one per student), large open area (gym or coned off area outside), whiteboard with pens

Physical activity: kicking

Description of Idea

Variations:

You can slowly remove electrons from the game to demonstrate how the body can be greatly affected by too many free radicals, just like the game is negatively affected when few have a ball.

Assessment Ideas:

* Observation of the game and how they follow directions.
* Question and answer period (either informal conversation individually or as a class, or a formal quiz with paper and pencil)

Adaptations for Students with Disabilities:

* Nerf style balls can be used to slow down the ball to make it easier to control the ball.
* Noise-producing balls may be used for vision impaired students.