Winter Olympic Games Project

Purpose of Activity: To have students learn about the Winter Olympic Games by tracking a particular event.

Suggested Grade Level: 11-12 Advanced PE Classes

Materials Needed: Poster board, access to the Internet and other resources, outline provided below.

Description of the Activity / Task:

This is a project that encompasses the entire duration of the Winter Olympic Games (although you need to explain the entire thing to them about 2 weeks in advance). Throughout you may need to schedule some time during health and/or physical education to visit the computer lab or library so students can do some research. Otherwise this is an activity that students will work on individually or in small groups. This was originally done with an advanced PE class.

The purpose of the activity is for a student to study and follow a Winter Olympic event as it takes place during the Olympics. He/she will also do research to learn about that event, watch the events on TV, follow them on the Web, and at the end they will create a poster that shares with the class what they learned about that sport and how that sport evolved at those particular Olympic games. The following are the procedures that the teacher can follow to make this happen.

Procedures:

(Before starting, it is important to note that this project, as it was submitted to PEC, was worth 30% of the students grades with the research worksheet worth 10% and the final poster worth 20%. Grading rubrics for the poster are provided.)

1. Put all events into a hat and have students draw their event. That event is the one they will follow and research. (If you prefer to have them choose their own event that is fine and you can even have them work in groups).

2. Have them complete the following worksheet that has them do research about that event and about what is happening with this event and its participants at this particular Winter Olympics. Make sure they turn this in at least a week in advance of the opening ceremonies. You want to make sure they are on the right track.

·  Click here for the Olympic Event Research Questions

3. Look over and grade the worksheet and return to the students. This is worth 10% of the project and had to be typed, double-spaced, with a no page limit standard. To get the full points ALL of the answers had to be answered accurately and had to be thorough and written in an understandable manner. At least two outside sources had to be used as well (i.e., Web site, magazine, newspaper, book). Points were not deducted for simple grammar and spelling errors. Excessive errors in this area could reduce a students grade, however. Students could include this information on their final poster.

4. Now that they have a background about their event, they can now follow the event throughout the duration of the games. Their main task is to keep track of the results of this event (i.e., who wins the Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals). They can use the Internet, watch it on TV, follow it in newspapers, and/or other popular press periodicals. They can gather additional information if they want as well (i.e., brief profiles of one of the athletes).

5. Set a due date (a week after the Games are over should work) for them to have their posters completely done and ready to be shown to the class and hung in the school. Make a big deal of this and invite the principal down for this. Only the stellar ones will be posted in the classroom or hallway or other prominent place in the school.

6. Grade the posters!

课题：冬季奥运会

活动目的：让学生在一种特殊的运动项目中去研究、学习有关冬奥会的一切。

建议教学水平：体育提高班11~12级。

需要器材：简报板、使用网络与其他资源和以下提供的教学提纲。

活动描述/任务

这是一个围绕冬季奥运会全过程的课题（虽然你需要在冬奥会开始前2周就要向学生解释整个事件）。你可能需要利用体育课或健康课，安排几次参观计算机房或图书馆的活动，这样学生都能做一些研究活动。这是一次学生独立或以小组形式进行的活动，同时也是最初在体育提高班中来完成的。活动的目的是为了使学生在冬奥会期间，以追踪研究冬奥会项目来替代学习。他们将研究和学习有关项目的内容、观看电视中的比赛、在网上关注比赛情况，并在最终创作出一帧简报与班级集体分享他们学习的收获和他们对冬季运动项目是如何发展成为这样一种特殊形式的奥运会的认识。以下步骤提供教师参考。

课 的 步 骤

（开始前强调这一点是非常重要的：这份作业将记入你的体育课成绩，将占学年成绩的30%，其中，研究进度报告占10%，制作简报占20%。简报的标题应事先拟定）。

1．将冬奥会各个项目名称写成纸条，放在容器中，由学生们摸选出他们每人应关注的项目，并准备进行研究（如果你更喜欢让学生自己选择项目的话，这也不错。并且，你甚至可以让他们以小组的形式来完成）。

2．学生必须完成下列研究进度报告，这是对有关项目的研究和该项目在冬奥会期间将发生些什么事情，有哪些人将参与本届冬奥会该项目的比赛等。学生必须在冬奥会开幕式前1周将研究进度报告交给你，这样你可以确定他们的研究方法和途径是否正确。

3．检查并将研究进度报告按等级进行分类，然后返回给学生。这个占10%成绩的研究进度报告必须按统一规格书写：两倍行间距、标准纸张大小，但不受页数限制。要获得满分，必须准确地回答出所有应该回答的问题，同时必须用通俗易懂的方式完整地写出来。至少应使用两种外界信息（例如网上、杂志、报纸、书刊），在简报中使用简单语法和拼写错误将不扣分，可是过多的、在自己研究领域中出现的错误可能导致降等。无论如何，学生们直到最后完成简报时都应注意这一要求。

4．现在，学生们有了一个有关他们研究项目内容的背景框架，他们就能够在冬奥会期间，跟随自己的研究进度去观察、研究项目的进展了。他们主要的任务是关注这个项目的比赛结果（例如谁获得金牌、谁获得银牌、谁获得铜牌），他们可以使用因特网，也可以看电视、看报纸，也可以看大众期刊，总之，他们可以收集他们所需要的一切资料（例如对某一运动员的人物简介等）。

5．规定一个日期（运动会结束后一周）让学生们可以完成自己的简报，并准备张贴在教室里和悬挂在学校里。要花很大的努力来做这件事，然后请校长下来看这些简报。只有那些最出色的简报才能被贴在班级里、走廊里或学校里最显眼的地方。

6．给简报评定等级！