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Bowl Games

Price: $2.99, format: 7 page PDF, grades: K,1,2,3,4,5

What's your favorite sport? Basketball? Running? Baseball? Football? This issue highlights football and the rich and longstanding history of college "bowl" games. Young readers will learn why these games have such an unusual title, which schools hold records for most appearances or most wins, and where the games are played across the nation. Internet links extend learning with football facts and trivia, a trip to the Football Hall of Fame and which college stadium has "Smurf Turf."

In this issue students will:

• understand the history of bowl games
• follow simple written directions to solve puzzles
• use map skills to locate places across the U.S.A.
• find examples of teamwork in the news
• spell grade level words correctly
• conduct a poll
• use the internet to extend learning