2012 Curriculum

Year 4 - My Future: "Improving the future" (Young Inventors)

Key Skills I can create a timeline; I can research and understand progress and changes that have happened in the Paralympics; I can use a stopwatch to test how running speed is affected and record our findings; I can plan and design an invention and explain how it works; I can use a tally chart to conduct a survey and present my findings in a graph; I can use the internet/CD Roms as a research tool; I can use my hearing as a tool in PE; I can evaluate my own and other peoples work and explain my reasonings;

• Watch video of Oscar Pistorius (paralympic runner);

Activities

• Investigate the history of the Paralympics and create a timeline. What progress has been made in the Paralympics Games?;
• Test the effects of variables on running speed. (eg: time how fast you can run in shoes vs trainers, trousers vs shorts, hair tied back vs loose). Record finding on table;
• Design and create invention for improving speed (test if possible);
• What inventions have helped us most? Carry out survey to determine most useful invention. Present findings in graph;
• Show wheelchair/picture of wheelchair. Why was this invented, how does it help people. When have you seen people using these? Show racing wheelchair. What other sports are there in the Paralympics? Research Ability vs ability website;
  
• Play goalball. Use circle time to discuss the difficulties/strengths we encountered;
• Design a piece of sports equipment to enable blind athletes to take part in 100m (or selected event);
  
• Incorporate time for self and peer evaluation, what worked well and what could be improved? Have the users needs been carefully considered?
  

• A Paralympics timeline;
• A table showing how variables effect the speed we run at;
• A plan and junk model invention to increase running speed;
  
• A graph showing votes for most popular inventions;
• Is able to empathise with the needs of blind athletes;
  
• A design for a piece of sport equipment to assist blind runners;
  
• Evaluation of their own and other’s designs;
  

- video
- A timeline
- A stopwatch
- Internet
- Goalball