This week, we are be having Olympic Engineering Camp here at Dana School. In our classroom, we will be learning about the Olympics in the following ways:
- Discussing teamwork, sportsmanship, respecting diversity, equal opportunities, and patriotism.
- Competing in the Math Mind Olympics by solving Olympic math word problems.
- Comparing data collected about the 2014 Sochi Olympics medal count.
- Studying the functions of human body systems in different sports.
- Inferring the meaning of words and phrases in sports poems.
- Becoming experts on a chosen Winter Olympic sport.
- Engineering
- Developing models of the setting for the sports
- Recreating the events in the classroom
- Designing effective uniforms for the sports
- Designing a plan for the athletes in each sport to train their bodies to become more effective
- Designing equipment to use in the sports
Below are links that we will use to guide our learning throughout Olympic Camp.
Videos About Winter Olympic Sports: Olympic Sports
Science and Sports: Science and Sports
Bobsledding: How Stuff Works: Bobsledding
Curling:
About the Olympics:
Research Links:
Videos About Winter Olympic Sports: Olympic Sports
Science and Sports: Science and Sports
Bobsledding: How Stuff Works: Bobsledding
Curling:
About the Olympics:
Research Links:
- Educreation
- Smore
- Symbaloo
- Go For the Gold
- Olympics Links
- How Olympic Bodies Have Changed
- Science and Engineering of the Olympic Games
- Technology and the Winter Olympics
- How Science Changed the Olympics - Summer
Questions about your sport:
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What equipment is used in the sport?
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What is the setting of your sport?
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What do athletes wear when they play the sport?
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What is the purpose of the sport (How do you
win?)
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What is the athletes body type? What parts of the body are necessary for the
sport? What parts of
the body move
during the event?
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How has engineering changed your sport?
