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More Details About Henry Cort Cross Curricular Project

A collaborative use of ICT across the curriculum project.  Subjects involved are DT, Maths, Science and PE.  The project uses motion analysis software to develop links between the participants

Staff Involved:

Stuart Wilkinson (Science Curriculum Leader)
Graham Styles (D&T Curriculum Leader)
Mike Hartnell (Mathematics Curriculum Leader)
Fran Lansley (PE)

Pupils Involved:

3 Groups of 14 Year 9 Students; a top set mathematics group in year 10.

Start Date: September 2006

Lesson Schedule:

Enrichment Week 2007 – A rough plan of W/B 09/07/07

 

DT/PE
GRS
-Looking at tennis ball server
-Modelling & making table tennis launcher
-videoing outcomes
-use Swinger Pro

Maths
MAH
-curve fitting in GSP
-Using GSP to get data in excel
-plotting the DST graphs and acceleration graphs

Science
STW
-explanations of the physics behind it
-hypothesizing
-how can we shoot the perfect basket?
-outside to try and shoot the perfect basket (through a hoop?)

10 Yard bucket challenge
JAS
- golf challenge to get the ball establishing trajectory, power and technique required for chipping a golf ball into a bucket from 10 yards / metres

Fitness
BRC
Aim: look at what improves fitness
- Use the results of  fitness tests to analyse performance
Use of sports search software.

Monday

Group 1 (14 kids)

 

 

 

 

Tuesday

Group 2 (14 kids)

Group 1

 

 

 

Wednesday

Group 3 (14 kids)

Group 2

Group 1

 

 

Thursday

 

Group 3

Group 2

 

 

Friday

 

 

Group 3

 

 

Project Objectives:

Monthly Status Report (word doc)
Teacher's TV Press Releases (pdf)

Related Documents

 

  

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