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An Olympic Games Project

“ Does the Olympic Games tradition contribute to unifying our world?”

An exciting project!

Good morning, Grade 6! This term we have a very exciting project to do. I know you are all taking great interest in the Olympic Games in Greece, aren’t you? Do you think they are an important part of our world...a necessity? Why? Do they bring all the nations together in peace? Well, we’re going to find out a lot of interesting information
this term. You will be working in groups of four. Sometimes your group will break into pairs.

We’re going to develop a Micrrosoft Publisher newsletter, a Powerpoint multimedia presentation and a website using Microsoft Front Page! Excited? Nervous? Don’t worry. You are going to get all the support you need.
Read through this publication carefully first. Your project will take the whole term but we’ll work on it step by step. Keep this information letter in your project flip-file.

Mrs Beal
Grade 6 project

Mrs Beal
Grade 6 project

July 2004

Let’s start with Task 1

Let’s begin! The question we want to answer in this project is “Does the Olympic Games tradition contribute to unifying our world?” Your job is to discover as much as you can about the Olympic Games. In order to do this you will need to do some Internet research. You have already been placed in groups of four. For this task you need to work with one other person from your group.
You will need three documents before you start Task 1. The first one is called “My Olympic Games journal” . Use this to fill in information as you do your Internet research. You will need to open another document called “Bibliography”. This is where you keep a record of all the websites you have visited and what information you found on them. You will also find a handout to use for assessing your partner. This is called a “Peer assessment rubric”.

Take a look at that before you start. It will help you to work together better.
In the next article over the page you will find some suggested websites to use.
Enjoy yourselves!

Visit these websites first in Task 1

1)http://minbar.cs.dartmouth.edu/greecom/olympics/
2) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Olympics/3) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/
4) http://www.culture.gr/2/21/211/21107a/og/games.htmlYou will be working in four groups. Sometimes your group will break into pairs. 5) http://www.ancient-greece.com/
6) http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/ancientgreece/classics/olympics/intro.shtml
7) http://www.experienceplus.com/essay_olympics.html
8) http://www.kidspoint.org/columns2.asp?column_id=948&column_type=homework
9) http://education.nmsu.edu/webquest/wq/olympics/Textref.html
10)http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au/projects/Olympics/History/history1.html
11)http://www.sjc.uq.edu.au/projects/Olympics/History/history2.html

Task 2: A multimedia presentation using Microsoft Powerpoint

We are now coming to Task 2 where you will work once again in your group to create a multimedia presentation on the Olympic Games using Microsoft Powerpoint. This presentation must attempt to answer the unit question. You will use the information from Task 1 for this.
Before you start working in Powerpoint, look at the Task 2 Multimedia Assessment Rubric. This is how you will

be assessed at the end of the unit.
To do your Powerpoint presentation you will need to brainstorm the Unit question and decide on the number of slides you want and what you will put on each slide. Use the handout called Task 2 Powerpoint storyboard for this.
Take a look at the Task 2 Group Assessment Rubric so that you know to assess one another at the end of this activity.

After that you need to share out the following group roles:
Slide layout artist.
Powerpoint developer. This role involves detting up all the slides for the presentation.
Typists: The other two members of the group will need to share out the typing of their slides between them.
Attempt to answer the unit question as a group.

Deadlines!

At this point we need to work out deadlines for your various tasks.
Task 1: Internet Research:
2 lessons: due on 30 July 2004
Task 2: Powerpoint presentation: 3 lessons: due on 10 August

Task 3: A Publisher newsletter : 3 lessons: due on the 20 August.
Task 4: A website: 3 lessons: due on the 10 September
Happy working!

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An Olympic Games Project

Task 3: A newsletter using Microsoft Publisher

This is a paired activity.
You will be working in Microsoft Publisher with the newsletter wizard. Once you have chosen a newsletter template you need to stop and think about what you are going to say.
Along with your partner begin by imagining that you are a tourist to Athens. The main title of your newsletter is “A visit to the Olympics 2004”. You need to think of ten relevant headings for your newsletter.

Here are some keywords to help you decide.
History, arrival, Paralympics, Torch, sports, cultural, bibliography, image gallery.
Each article requires one picture which you can copy and paste from relevant websites.
You and your partner need to divide

Divide up the task. Each person should be responsible for typing two full pages.
Don’t forget to look at the Task 3 Olympic Games Publication Rubric before you start. This will guide you.

Task 4: Design a website using Microsoft FrontPage

This week you will start making your own website using Microsoft FrontPage. Your group’s task will be to use all the information you have gathered and place it on a webpage. You already have most of the information from your Newsletter and Powerpoint presentations. You will be learning:
your project.

how to use and change a template in FrontPage and change it to suit
How to link pages together
How to copy and paste between the different Microsoft Office products.
How to save images from the Internet into your image file.

How to plan a storyboard first.
You will also use an animated object on your website.
To start this project you will need a copy of the Task 4 Website storyboard, a copy of the Task 4 Website Assessment Rubric, and a copy of the Task 4 Group Assessment Rubric. Please turn over for more information

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Task 4: Design a website with Microsoft FrontPage continued

Your groups need to be divided into the following roles:
1) Web builder: This person will be responsible for making the structure of the website.
2) Page content organizer: This person will be responsible for deciding on the layout of the various pages.
3)The graphics finder. This person finds suitable pictures to use on each page.
4) Evaluator of unit question
This person interprets the result of the brainstorm the group holds on the Unit question answer.

Look at the Task 4 Website Assessment Rubric to see what is expected of you in this activity, Please use the Task 4 Website storyboard to plan your website. At the end of this task please fill in the Task 4 Group Assessment Rubric at the end of the activity to assess how you worked together.
On each page you need to have:
A title that stands out
Buttons that are easy to read down the left side.

The Ancient and Modern Olympic Games information should be separated on the webpage.
There should be a animated graphic on the Index page and at least 1 graphic on each of the other pages.
Enjoy this task!

GOOD LUCK