STEAM WINTER OLYMPICS SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY ENGINEERING ARTS MATH
Snow can be dry http://www.sportgames Create your own skis Create art with lines Skis are about 72 SKIING and powdery or wet arena.com/game/ski- using any materials! and angles that echo inches in length. If there and icy. Show or run/ Take a picture of you the placement of skis are 12 inches in a foot, write which type of “skiing” with your skis. (parallel lines; acute how many feet are in 72 snow you think is Play this ski game angles, and obtuse inches? Is this longer, better for Olympic online! angles) shorter, or the same skiing and why. length than someone who is 5 feet tall? Show your math to prove your answer.
Create a Venn Type a letter to your Students can create Draw and color a Many skating moves FIGURE Diagram. Compare parents/guardians their own figure skater costume for a figure involve a large arm- SKATING and contrast the about why you should using a paper doll who skater (man, woman, span. Have students science of figure have an ice skating has paper clip skates or pair) to wear in measure their arm skating with science rink in your own on. Then they can use competition. spans and the arm of speed skating. backyard. a cookie sheet and spans of their family magnet to make the members. How much figure skater “skate” larger is an adults arm around the cookie span compared to the sheet. children in your family?
Simple machines Research the first Draw or build a All we can see of The minimum weight for BOBSLED include wheel & African bobsled team bobsled from recycled bobsledders’ helmets a 2-man bobsled is 375 axle, inclined plane, to be in the Olympics. materials. Label its is the top. Draw and pounds. The minimum wedge, lever, parts. Take a picture color a bobsled weight for a 4-man pulley, and screw. and send it in to helmet to represent bobsled 463 pounds. Explain how one or school. King that everyone What would be the more simple would recognize from minimum weight of a 6- machines are used its top. man bobsled and an 8- in Bobsledding. man bobsled? Show and explain your work.
Curling stones are Research the Olympic Create your own Curling uses a round Measure how far an CURLING made of granite to Village and create your curling stone using stone. Pointillism is object can go when you reduce friction and own map of it. recycled materials. when we use tiny push it. Try using slide on the ice. Practice pushing it on round dots to make a various sized objects: Explain what would different surfaces. picture. Use dots of small, medium, and happen if curling color to create a large. See what stones were made pointillistic winter happens when you of wood, fabric, scene. push the object on plastic, or paper. different surfaces- rug, floor, etc.
Put 3 ice cubes Use a microphone to Ice hockey needs safe Make colored ice Hockey pucks are 3 ICE HOCKEY each in their own sing the National equipment. Pick one cubes and paint with inches wide. How tall plastic bags. Put Anthem. If you do not part of the ice hockey them on white paper. are you in hockey one on your kitchen have a microphone, uniform and invent a pucks? How tall is counter. Hang one make one yourself! way to make it even another family member on the window, and Find the lyrics to the safer. Draw or make a in hockey pucks? Show put one in the song online if needed! model using recycled and explain your work. refrigerator. After materials and explain 60 minutes, what your idea. has happened?
People who Luge Research online a Luge sleds need to be Luge riders lay on Use a slide in your LUGE need lots of healthy Luge athlete and find aerodynamic, meaning their sled on their backyard or at a park. meals? Can you out different facts they glide through the back. They race Toss objects down the think of a meal for a about them. How long air easily. Draw or down the track feet slide and time how long Luge athlete and have they been design a luge sled first. Imagine what a each item takes. Which work with your training for? What model from recycled luge rider sees from one is the fastest? family to cook it? made them become a materials and show that position and luge olympian? the ways it is draw that view. aerodynamic.
Speed skaters Pretend to speed Create your own torch Speed Sketching: Skip Counting! How SPEED sometimes keep skate in your home. and create a relay race Fold a paper into 8 well can you count by one hand on their Use a stopwatch to with friends or family. boxes. Sketch a 2s, 3s,4s,5s, etc. SKATING back while they time how long it takes different picture Record your counts on swing the other you to go various representing winter in a piece of paper. arm. Would this be distances. each box, spending a good way to run no more than one in a race? Why or minute on each why not? sketch.Try to think of ideas no one else would think of. Ski Jumpers need Put objects down your Build a ski ramp with Write a song about Complete a standing SKI JUMPING to be able to turn ski jump ramp and recyclable materials. ski jumping that long jump and record and twist in the air take a video of their ski Take a picture and includes at least 3 the distance. Try it 3 and land safely. jump. send it in to school. leaps from a low note times and add up the What muscles are to a high note. Make distances. Ask your important in ski sure to include parents to find the jumping and why? winter, skiing, and average distance you jumping words. Sing jump. the song to someone in your family. Snowboarders use Go to a sporting goods Draw or make a model Snowboards have Design your own SNOWBOARD gravity to build store online and of a snowboard course awesome pictures on snowboard using speed so they can budget for becoming a using recycled them. Draw and color pattern blocks. do their tricks in the snowboarder. How materials. Include a King Elementary air. Draw or write much does a jumps and rails. Bring School snowboard about other ways snowboard cost, what or send in a picture. design. gravity helps us do about goggles and any things in our other materials. everyday lives.
Separate Contest: Create your own Olympic Sport Olympic Medal App: Track the medal count and keep tallies for them