Term+3+Week+5

Click on the link below and watch.

This clip presents you with some thought provoking and amazing information and data. Any data you are presented with needs to be read, interpreted and made sense of.

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/08/05/sports/olympics/the-100-meter-dash-one-race-every-medalist-ever.html?ref=sports

Your homework for this week is to watch the clip on the 100m sprint that compares every medalist from 1896. Then you have to make sense of it and produce a report on it. You might want to think about the following prompts:


 * what does the video clip tell us about sprinting from 1896 to the present?
 * what is the general trend (ask an adult what 'general trend' means if you don't understand it)?
 * are there any athletes who were exceptionally fast for their period in time? Who and why might this be?
 * why might people, on the whole, be getting faster?

Link this clip to our ALJ topic (Civilisation: From the Stone Age to the Digital Age - How Far Have We Come?).


 * How far has the 100m sprint come? How has it progressed? Why has it progressed? (Think about: training/diet/professionalism/advances in footwear/advances in track development)

Make a prediction:


 * How fast will people get in the future? Is it possible for people to get faster and faster? Will there ever be a time when the fastest time has been reached?

To be handed in on Friday 24th August. Published quality. It can be typed or handwritten - if typed, font size no larger than 12. Number of words: no more than 500 (though if you want to do more then that's up to you). I am not going to set a minimum number of words because you need to ask yourself what if your expectation of you. If I feel you have taken an easy option and have deliberately handed in work that is below your standard and ability then expect to have it handed back and be asked to do it again.

I will take screen shots of some of the info so you will have visuals to go with your report when it comes to publication