OLYMPICS HOME PROJECT

This page is available to download at http://www.erols.com/allnutt/olympics.html

YOU will be choosing an Olympic Team or Olympic Country or Olympic Sport - YOUR CHOICE

You will need to read the newspaper, watch television news reports, and visit the Internet to research your Olympic Project.

Here are two great sites that have many Internet Olympic sites:

http://www.olympics.com/eng/

http://www.teachervision.com/tv/theme.php?theme=Olympics

http://www.scholastic.com/olympicgames/index.asp

http:www.nbcolympics.com

http://www.surfnetkids.com/olympics2000.htm

http://olympics.sportsline.com/

http://aafla.org/OlympicInformationCenter/OlympicPrimer/OlympicPrimer.htm

You will be creating a folder to turn in all of the following:

l. Pictures of the Olympics

2. A mini report of your team/country/sport

3. A scaled drawing map of your country or the world with Olympics information

4. A data table with Olympic data you collect personally

5. Two graphs showing Olympic data in percent format

6. Two ratio statements

Here is the Olympics Home Project Evaluation Rubric:

Written report:
    4 - Typed, one page, high quality, interesting, strong relevance to Olympics
    3 - Typed, one page, interesting
    2 - Handwritten, one page, interesting
    l - Handwritten, one or two paragraphs, interesting
Pictures
    4- Four relevant pictures
    3- Three relevant pictures
    2- Two relevant pictures
    l - One relevant picture
Map
    4- Scaled map drawing of country or continent or world, accurate, labeled, neat, in color,
    3- Map drawing of country or continent or world, accurate, labeled, neat, in color
    2 - Map drawing of country or continent or world, labeled
    l - Map
Data Table
    4 - Typed data table created to collect Olympic data on sport, team, athlete, 6 across top, 4 down left
    3 - Typed data table created to collect Olympic data on sport, team, athlete, 4 across top, 3 down left
    2 - Handwritten data table
    l - Xerox of newspaper clipping or Internet site
Graphs
    4 - Two graphs showing percent using Olympic statistics, in color, neat
    3 - Two graphs using Olympic statistics, in color, neat
    2 - Two graphs using Olympic statistics
    l - A graph using Olympic statistics
Ratio Page
    4 - Two ratio conclusions of Olympics, picture representations, expressed 3 ways: %, fraction, l:2
    3 - Two ratio conclusions of Olympics, expressed 3 ways
    2 - Two ratio conclusions of Olympics
    l - One ratio conclusion of Olymics
Optional
    News reports, Internet printouts

Due Date: ___________________