In
small groups, ask the students to develop a profile for each of
the seven athletes from the NSWIS involved in this rap. They may
need to gather information from a number of sources, for example:
- athlete
profiles from the NSW
Institute of Sport web site
- resources located in your school library
- dialogue
with the athletes involved in the rap (see each athlete’s introductions)
Nick
Moroney: Track and field
Nicole
Hackett: Triathlon
Kerryn
McCann: Track and field
Bronwyn
Eagles: Athletics
Jim
Piper: Swimming
Patrina
Price: Athletics
Jason
Cram – Swimming
Develop questions that students would like to ask each athlete
to find out more information about them. For example, what they
enjoy most about playing this sport or about participating in
this event, what are some of the physical benefits, health benefits,
and social benefits? You may also look at what sports and physical
activities they will be or would like to be involved in once their
competitive careers are over.
Send a message to all rappers sharing a couple of questions you
would like to ask each athlete. A selection of these will be answered
next week.
In the following week, many of these questions will be answered
by the athletes. Students should be encouraged to add to their
profiles as more information is gained.
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Explain the
nature of the rap task. The first part of the task is to find
specific information about each athlete involved in the rap.
As a class, ask the students to predict what will be found on
the NSW Institute of Sport web site.
As a whole class, visit the NSW
Institute of Sport and explore the site.
Demonstrate how to navigate through aspects of the NSWIS web site’s
online collection using the site’s navigation icons.
For example:
- NSWIS sports
- NSWIS athletes.
Support students
to locate and select information using an information process.
Guide students through the following steps:
Step 1: Defining
- What do
I really want to find out?
- What information
do I need?
Step
2: Locating
- Where can
I find the information I need?
- What do
I already know?
- What sources
do I need?
- Where are
they?
Step 3: Selecting
- What
information do I really need to use?
- How useful
is the information I have found?
- How will
I record the information, including the source?
Step 4: Organising
- How can
I best use the information?
- Have I
got enough information?
- How can
I join all the information together?
Step
5: Presenting
- How can
I present this information?
- What headings
do I need?
- What key
points will I include?
Step 6: Assessing
- What did
I learn from this task?
- Did I
fulfil the aim of the task?
- How well
did I present my work?
As students discover
interesting fact(s) about each athlete, they are to:
- develop
the information they have gathered and present their own athlete
profile. This could be in the form of:
- multimedia
presentation (e.g.
PowerPoint or Kidpix)
- poster
presentation
- information
sheet
- hanging
mobile
- other?
As part of this
profile, ask the students to develop suitable question(s) that they
would like to submit to each athlete in order to find out more information.
Encourage
the students to prepare questions by discussing the different
types of questions.
For example:
Descriptions: What was it like then?
Investigations: Who, What, When, Where, How and Why?
Comparisons: Is the situation the same as that or different?
Narrative: What happened next?
Explanations: Why did this happen? Why is it like this?
For more information about constructing questions, see
Formulating
questions teacher support sheet.
As a class, discuss the questions that students have prepared
and select two questions for each athlete that will be posted
to the rap.
Once the questions have been selected and edited, ask a Rap
Rep to email them to the rap.
A selection of
these questions will be submitted to each athlete. Indicate to the
students that it may not be possible, depending on the number of
schools involved, for both of their questions to be answered.
Remember to check
the email account regularly for information from the athletes involved.
Read the questions posted by participating schools to see the types
of questions they asked of the athletes.
As a class, regularly revisit the Retrieval chart from Rap point
1 and as additional information is located, extend the information
gathered about the Commonwealth Games.
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