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**Sport Science Professional Development Program **

**__Program Overview __**

= =  ** The Sport Science program partners middle school science teachers with physical educators to collaboratively develop physical science lessons that present concepts of distance, displacement, speed, velocity and acceleration, gravitational force, the effects of balanced or unbalanced forces on objects, energy transfer, and simple machines in the context of sports. This approach is outlined in the Georgia Framework for Science (grade 8) as a seven week unit. Participants will explore physical science concepts by participating in a range of sports, collecting and analyzing data related to motion, forces, and simple machines using skill evaluation software, and analyzing equipment, facilities, and biomechanics related to sports. The program will enable science teachers to present abstract concepts of physical science to their students, making those concepts relevant to everyday life, by embedding them in real world, motivating examples from sports. The science terminology and concepts will be infused into and reinforced by physical education teachers in their classes. **

**  The Sport Science program is supported by a Teacher Quality grant, funded through the No Child Left Behind Act, Title II, Part A, of Public Law 107-110. Georgia’s Improving Teacher Quality Higher Education Program funds are used to enhance the teaching of science, mathematics, language arts, reading, and social studies at the elementary, middle, and high school levels in public and private schools. **