Term 3 Inquiry Olympics

By International night girls

  • Start of Inquiry

    The first day of inquiry.

  • Make report

    L.I: Think about the olympics.
    S.C: Writea report
    -A pre-olympic event.
    -An olympic occassion.
    -A specific sporting event. I am going to do a Specific Sporting event: Equestrian.
  • Period: to

    Total Inquiry Time

    This is how long I have to finish inquiry.

  • Work on my Report

    L.I: think about the olympics.

  • Present Report

    Have my report finished and ready to present to the class.

  • Main Inquiry Brainstorm

    Make a brain storm with idea's for this terms inquiry project.

  • Make a fertile question

    Should horses be allowed performance enhancing drugs in the olympics?

  • Sub Questions Made

    What types of drugs are there?
    Who are the most likely users?
    What careers are there in the drug studies?

  • Survey

    Make a survey for class.
    WHich is the athlete the horse or the rider?

  • Decide on Science/Social studies objective

    Science: Explore technical or biological application of physics.

  • Start Research

    Start to research and find primary resources.
  • Period: to

    My Fertile Question and sub questions

    Between this time My fertile question and subquestion changed.
    Fertile question: Who is the athlete the horse or the rider?
    Sub: What happens to the horse rider when riding?
    Who does more work the horse or the rider?
    How fit does a horse have to be to compete in te olympics?
    When is the ideal age for a horse to compete in the olympics?
    Which breed of horse is the best?
    How much training is involved?

  • Start Subquestion #1

    What happens to a horse rider when riding?

  • Decide on order of research for Sub questions

    Make sure have have the order to your research questions so if one is feeding off another then you are'nt going around in circles.

  • Start subquestion #2

    Does the horse do more work then the rider?

  • Subquestion #3

    When is the ideal age for a horse to compete in the olympics?

  • Make a script

    Make a script to talk to the vet.

  • Find a Primary Resource

    I am going to contact a vet.

  • Continue my vet Script

    Start finishing off the script and maybe editing it.

  • Finish Script

    Have my vet script finished now. All Edited.

  • Find a vet

    Find the contacts from several different equine vets and narrow them down.
    Email some.
    Interview/Call one.

  • Email

    Make and send a email to my found contacts.

  • Find New Zealand Olympic Equestrian Athletes

    Find the athletes who competed at the olympics in 2012 and email them.

  • Check Emails

    Check emails to see if there are replies

  • Start Science Achievement Objective

    What are the physics involved between horse and rider when Jumping?

  • Complete Static image

    Start and make the static image.

  • Start poem

    start to make presentation poem

  • Creating Poem

    Keep making the poeem involving 'Who is the athlete'

  • Have completed Poem

    POem must be completed by now.

  • Booklet completed

    Have the entire booklet completed.