Collaborate with Olympic athletes to set daily challenges and take part in a simulated Olympic journey. This NZ project, for year 3 and 4’s, is aimed at getting children, active, having fun and involved in the upcoming Olympic games.
Every child who participates will receive a free pedometer and a chance to represent NZ at the Beijing Olympic Games.
To get started, register your school at : http://www.mygreatestfeat.org/register.php
Online registration for your school closes at midday on April 18th, 2008.
The ‘My Greatest Feat’ programme begins Monday 21st July.
This information is great! I am always looking for collaborative projects to use in my classroom. We simulated the Olympics for our field day this year and it was a great way to develop our students’ understanding of the Olympics (their funds of knowledge are limited in this area). We also did a neat reading incentive project last year. The students were given a pedometer and their goal was to make it to the moon as an elementary. The way that they earned “steps” to the moon is by logging their pedometer readings and by earning a step for every minute they read each night. As a building, we kept track of their totals weekly and as a culminating activity the top readers and top walkers were able to launch rockets in front of the student body. It was tedious to keep track of but was fun.
I found this blog interesting and it reminded me of similar projects!