We inquired into the sports and events featured in the modern Olympic games. We had to try and collect, relevent information including, text, video and images. We had to design the layout to make it clear and easy to read. We shared our ideas in pairs.
Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
Room 13’s olympic inquiry
1. What athletes
and sports were in the London
2012 Olympics?
WALT: Ask questions, research answers, share our
learning in a slideshow.
2. The History of the Ancient Olympic
games
• The Olympic Games begun over 2,700 years ago in Olympia in
southwest Greece. The Greek Olympics have to begun in 776
BC, inspired the modern Olympic games (Begun in 1896)
3. James Naismith invented basketball. James was
born in 1861 and died in 1939.
Basketball started at 1968 in the Olympics.
Nearly 4000 people participated in London.
USA has won 2 gold medals.
Australia won 1 bronze medal.
5. London 2012
basketball medal
count.
Total
United States 2 - - 2
Spain - 1 - 1
France - 1 - 1
Australia - - 1 1
Russia - - 1 1
6. Blossom and Caylens
inquiry on canoeing.
The histories of the canoe and the kayak go back
hundreds of years, but it wasn’t until the middle of the
19th century that the first official canoe and kayak races
were held. At the Olympic Games, the sport now takes
two forms, the older of which is the power-packed, History of Canoe Sprint at the
fiercely completive Canoe Sprint discipline – head-to- Olympic Games
head races over still water. Canoeing first featured as a
demonstration sport at the Paris
1924 Games. It became a full
Olympic sport in 1936, when races
were held over distances of 1,000m
and 10,000m. Since then, the
Olympic events have shortened: the
10,000m events were last held at the
Melbourne 1956 Games.
7. Canoeing
The canoe slalom competition will
call for speed , control and precision
on the daunting white water rapids
at the new lee valley white water
centre.
The Canoe Sprint 200m race makes its Olympic
In June 2009 Lisa Carrington won a
debut at London 2012.
bronze medal at the world cup in
, Hungary , competing alongside
Teneale Hatton in the women’s k-2
Lisa Carrington 1000 metres event.
Lisa Carrington got a gold medal in the canoeing
for New Zealand in the 200 meter canoe
8. Sarah
Walker
BMX is a type of off-road bicycle racing.
Sarah Walker came 2nd in BMX in 2012 Olympics.
Four years after missing a medal in Beijing, Sarah Walker has won silver in the women's BMX at the London
Olympics.
Sarah Walker was inspired to become an Olympian when she was 18.
Walker spoke openly of her mental battle to get here, after finishing fourth in Beijing four years ago.
"Going into Beijing I did doubt myself a lot and I didn't really believe I could win or believe I deserved to be
on that podium. I've worked a lot over the last two years to build up the confidence and myself and the
belief in myself that I can do this and that I can push myself and to not be afraid of losing."
9. BMX
Sarah Walker
Personal information
Full name Sarah Louise Walker
Nickname Sez
10 July 1988 (age 24)
Born
New Zealand
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 74 kg (160 lb)
Team information
Current team Team NZ
Discipline BMX
Role Racer
Rider type Off road
10. Medal count ›
Sarah Walker is an Olympic Silver-medal
winning BMX racer who was born in
Whakatane, New Zealand, and lives in
Kawerau. In the 2008 season UCI Rounds,
Sarah won seven races, came 2nd in one race
and didn't race two races. Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Colombia 1 0 1 2
2 Latvia 1 0 0 1
3 Australia 0 1 0 1
3 New Zealand 0 1 0 1
5 Netherlands 0 0 1 1
11. "I could hear them yelling for me, and I knew they were
so passionate they just really, really wanted me to win,"
she said.
"I could hear almost the hurt in them when I didn't win
and also that sympathy. I tried not to think about that
today - I didn't want that pressure.
"I didn't feel like I let them down. They say they're
proud of me no matter what. I know they wanted me to
have this just as much as I do. It was pretty cool they
were here for it.“ Said Sarah.
12. Medal Winners for Women's BMX
Gold
Mariana Pajon
Colombia
Silver
Sarah Walker
New Zealand
Bronze
Laura Smulders
Netherlands
By Ava and Nathan
13. Diving made it Olympic debut in
The diving pool Diving events
1904, where medals were awarded
the pool, or a fixed platform,
for men in the 10m Platform and
set at a height of 10m.
the Plunge for Distance (a Diving
Springboards must be at least
long jump event, which never
4.8m long and 50cm wide,
again appeared on the Olympic
while platforms should be at
program). Women’s Diving was
least 6m long and 3m wide.
introduced in 1912 and Synchrony
nized Diving made its first Olympic
appearance at Sydney in 2000.`
14. Diving pool
The diving pool is 25m
long and 5m deep. The
eight Diving events
feature either a
springboard, 3m above
the pool, or a fixed
platform, set at a height
of 10m. Springboards
must be at least 4.8m
long and 50cm wide,
while platforms should
be at least 6m long and
3m wide.
16. The term Artistic Gymnastics was first used in the 19th
century. Between its appearance at the Athens 1896
Games and the 1920s, the event evolved into what we
recognise as modern Gymnastics.
Gymnastics for girls and boys.
Gymnastics equipment includes bars of varying
heights, mats, vaults, pommel horses, balance beams and
trampolines.
17. Shawn Johnson is an American gymnast
who won a gold medal
Shawn Machel Johnson (born January 19,
1992) is a retired American artistic gymnast.
She was the 2008 Olympic balance beam gold
medalist and all-around, and floor exercise
silver medalist, the 2007 all-around World
Champion, and the 2007 and 2008 U.S. all-
around champion.
18. Each fencer tries to
score five touches
against his or her
opponent within the
target area
19. Athletics it is not one sport it is a lot of
sports.
Athletes:
Emma Twigg
Nick Willis
Valerie Adams
Sarah walker
Alison shanks
Mahe Drysdale
Lily and Valerie Adams
Luca. won a gold medal
for New Zealand
in shot put 2012.
20. This is the
Athletics Lots of people are famous in Athletics but
logo. not every one in Athletics. Because some
people want to go and have fun and they
might winners, And the ones who want to
win probably lose.
Athletics is the perfect expression of the
Olympic motto ‘Citius, Altius, Fortius’ (‘Faster,
Higher, Stronger’) – the competition requires
athletes to run faster, throw further, jump
higher and leap longer than their rivals. With
2,000 athletes competing in 47 events,
Athletics is the largest single sport at the
Games.
Athletics is lots of sports because you don,t want to have to
many different sports in the Olympics. That’s why Athletics is a
lot of sports in it. And it might be because you don’t want to
say all the sports and there has so many sports.
21. This is the athletics running track
on the Olympic ground. GO! NZ.
Athletics is a lot of peoples favourite
thing but not every ones. And athletes
know that some people are not aloud
to watch the athletics or the Olympics .
They also know that some hate
athletics.
And they have gold
medals.
But are they
from nz. These are the Olympic
leaders.
22. Height : 199cm
Weight : 100kg
Age : 33
Gender : male
Country : New Zealand This is how many medals
Sport : Rowing Mahe Drysdale has won in the
2012 Olympic Games.
Birth date : 19/11/1978
Born : Melbourne Australia
He has got two sisters and a brother
Grandpa' is his nickname.
He practises two or three times a day, six days a week.
He started rowing when he was 18 years old.
West End Rowing Club is his club.
Richard Tonks (NZL) is his coach.
He was a Commerce student at University of Auckland.
24. Winners for the men’s single sculls
2012 Olympic games.
NZL 1st G CZE 2nd S GBR 3rd B
Mahe Drysdale Ondrej Synek Alan Campbell
25. The history of Rowing
• The world’s best rowers came to New Zealand in 2010 to compete in the
FISA World Rowing Championships at Lake Karapiro, Waikato. Rowing
has evolved over thousands of years from a way to get around on water
into a sport with its own rules and disciplines. Competitive rowing came to
New Zealand with British settlers, and the first local club was established
in 1861. Including the London 2012 Games, 21 of New Zealand’s
103Olympic medals have been won by rowers, the same number as
athletics.
By Amie and Mason.
26. Sailing (also known as yachting until 1996) has been one of the Olympic sports since the Games of
the I Olympiad, held in Athens, Greece, in 1896. Despite being scheduled in the first Olympic
program,.
Sailing made its Olympic debut in Paris 1900 with both men’s and women’s competitions. With
the exception of St Louis 1904, the sport has appeared at every Olympic Games since.
Ollie and Natalia
Sailing
27. The most successful Olympic sailor of
all time is Denmark’s Paul Elvstrom. He
won the first of his four gold medals at
consecutive Games in 1948, and was
still competing in 1988 at the age of
60. August 6, 2012 - Weymouth,
England - Peter Burling and Blair Tuke
racing in the 49er - Weird as it may
seem the thinking is that it is better for
them both to come out with a Gold
and Silver medal each, rather than go
alone and maybe both miss out to the
British machine.
29. Kiwi star Valerie Adams wants
to be presented with her
Olympic gold medal in Europe
at a major international Valerie Adams is a kiwi star
athletics meet - "sooner at shot put. She won a
silver mead but then when
rather than later" - even if
they tuock the jrug test on
that means the ceremony the gorle that got gold
happening in Switzerland fownd som jrogs so Valerie
before she returns to New Adams got gold.
Zealand late next month.
30.
31. Boxing has been around for ages
By James and William
History of Boxing at the Olympic Games
Since the first Olympic Boxing competition in St Louis 1904, many of the sport’s biggest names have
come to prominence at the Games: Cassius Clay (later known as Muhammad Ali; 1960), George
Foreman (1968) and Oscar de la Hoya (1992) have all won Olympic gold in the past.
Find out more about Boxing at the Olympic Games on the International Olympic Committee
website.
32.
33. Holly and Josephs medal work
The Gold Medal is not
made entirely from gold.
It must be 92.5% silver
USA and plated with at least
six grams of gold. The
49 gold last time first-place
medals were made
23 bronzes entirely out of gold was
And 109 total at the 1912 Games in
Stockholm.
