A complete, ready-to-use classroom resource for grades 4–8, built around Linda Soules' So You Want To Be A Professional Athlete. Inside: 30+ scaffolded discussion questions organized by chapter, a 20-word kid-friendly glossary, six hands-on activities (including a One-Hundredth Second Lab that makes students feel the margin between gold and fourth place, a Practice Tape self-critique, and a week-long Recovery Audit — most using only a phone and paper), six extension projects, nine writing prompts, full cross-curricular connections (math, science, social studies, ELA, visual arts, and SEL), and standards alignment with NGSS, Common Core, Social Studies, and Health/SEL. Designed to flex from a single-week unit to a full-quarter integration — or to be pulled apart and used across the year as a recurring touchstone for conversations about effort, body intelligence, and choosing hard work on purpose. Like the book itself, the guide trusts students with the real texture of the work: the ten years behind the ten seconds, the 90% of the job nobody films, recovery as the invisible skill that decides everything, and the hard truth that knowing when not to compete can be the most professional choice an athlete makes. Includes a thoughtful teacher's note on handling injury, public failure, and career-end identity loss — including Derek Redmond's torn hamstring and Simone Biles' Tokyo withdrawal, framed as stories of character and self-knowledge rather than tragedy.