Summer Olympics - 26th July to 11th August 2024 (secondary)
Celebrate the 2024 Summer Olympic games with these classroom resources.
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Running Tracks
This Cre8ate maths activity gives the opportunity for accurate measurement, scale drawing and calculations involving pi. If there is access to a running track, students look at how the track is marked out and distances measured accurately for runners in each of the lanes. Alternatively, if a track is not available...
Engineering enables
The development of running blades has greatly enhanced the running ability of amputees and people born without legs. In this activity students learn more about how the inventor of running blades applied the scientific concept of potential elastic energy and biomimicry to design a high performance prosthetic leg....
Computer Games vs Sport
The activity allows the students to explore social, ethical, economic and health issues relating to the use of Nintendo Wii compared to doing real sports and present their findings in a persuasive, coherent and focused argument. Students identify arguments for and...
Physics in Sport: Equestrian
This resource uses the context of horse riding so that students can investigate the centre of gravity of a cut-out paper horse. By using a plumb-line and drawing intersecting lines, the centre of gravity can be found - this is the point above which a rider on a horse should position themselves when going over a...
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| Subject(s) | Cross curricular, Design and technology, Mathematics, Science |
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| Age | 11-14, 14-16, 16-19 |
| Published | n.a |
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| Direct URL | https://www.stem.org.uk/cxjak5 |
