Summer Olympics - 26th July to 11th August 2024 (secondary)
Celebrate the 2024 Summer Olympic games with these classroom resources.
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Winning Medals: Does Engineering Design Make a Difference?
This resource aims to give students the opportunity to investigate the impact of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) on wheelchair sport. Students create a presentation that provides a justified answer to the ‘big question’, does engineering design make a difference to a wheelchair athlete's...
Swimming
This film, from the Institute of Mechanical Engineers, shows how sports engineers from Loughborough University are using analysis software to help swimmers perfect their style and form, helping them shave seconds off their time.
A design for swimming
Ellen Harper is a masters student currently working at Poolpod and works on getting people with restricted mobility swimming through inclusive design. In this video she talks about the Poolpod lift, a device that allows the user to take a submersible wheelchair into a swimming pool.
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Heart Rate Investigation
This resource uses the context of football to introduce a heart rate investigation. Students take part in suggested exercises and measure their heart rate and recovery time. They need to plot of graph of their heart rate for different activities, and are encouraged to decide the axis and scale of the graph for...
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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 |
