Solar System Olympics Grade 5

Our Task The Olympic Committee has decided to have a Solar System Olympics. Your task is to find the best athletes on Earth. Since the Martian culture only allows for individual performances, you will be looking at one the following sports: swimming, diving, gymnastics, or track and field to build the best team to send to the Solar System Olympics. When building your team of athletes, the approved Solar System Event List willed be utilized. The culminating activity will involve your participation in Olympic-style events where you will record and compare scores and times.

The Process Select events Research scores/times Create “Best” paragraph Design Logo Present project

Solar System Olympic Event List Swimming Freestyle Backstroke Butterfly Diving 3 meter Springboard 10 meter Platform Gymnastics Balance beam Horizontal bars Vault Athletics (Track and Field) Shot put Javelin 100 Meter Long jump Discus throw Race walk Hurdles

Athlete’s Name EventScore/TimeCite Source Team Info

The Process continued… Participate in “local” Olympics Record scores/times Compare and order scores/times

The Rubric

CATEGORY4 Expert3 Practitioner2 Apprentice1 NovicePoints Internet Research Source information collected for facts with no errors. Source information collected for facts with one or two errors. Source information collected for facts with three or four errors. Source information collected for facts with more than four errors. __ X 5 Paragraph One paragraph with more than one example. No misspellings or grammatical errors. One paragraph with one example. Three or fewer misspellings and/or grammatical errors. One paragraph with four misspellings and/or grammatical errors. Paragraph is missing, incomplete or has more than four misspellings and/or grammatical errors. __ X 5 Solar System Logo Made excellent use of font, color, and graphics to enhance the presentation. Made good use of font, color, and graphics to enhance the presentation. Made use of font, color, and graphics but occasionally these distract from the logo. Made use of font, color, and graphics but these distract from the logo. __ X 5 Presentation Well-rehearsed with smooth delivery that held audience attention. Rehearsed with fairly smooth delivery that held audience attention most of the time. Delivery not smooth, but able to maintain interest of the audience most of the time. Delivery not smooth and audience attention often lost. __ X 5 Calculation Accurately compared and ordered numbers and presented in a graphic form. Accurately compared and ordered all numbers. Compared and ordered numbers with one or two errors. Compared and ordered numbers with three or more errors. __ X 5