Maker Space

ZOOMer Olympics 
Sent in by: Nick of Grand Island, NE 

400 Centimeter Dash two 4-meter tracks for a mini 400 cm. dash doll sneakers and shorts for fingers To run this race, mark off the floor with strips of masking tape that are 400 centimeters (4 meters) apart. Put the doll shorts and shoes on your fingers and race against an opponent from the other team. Make sure you keep your fingertips on the floor, like a real runner would!	Swimming 2 tubs filled with water (This is your pool.) 2 corks with photos of the people playing taped to them (These are your swimmers.) Each "swimmer" blows his cork across the water. The swimmer that makes it across first wins.	Javelin cotton swabs For the javelin throw, you will be throwing cotton swabs. Tape a strip of masking tape on the floor about 5 meters away. Try to throw three cotton swabs as close to the tape as you can without going past it. The player that throws their swab the closest to the line wins the event.
Archery rubber bands 2 cardboard targets Make two targets out of paper by drawing concentric circles. Try to hit the target with rubber bands. The archer who hits the target five times first gets the point for her team.	High Dive 2 cups of water 20 pennies Each team gets a cup of water, a chair, and ten pennies. Stand on a chair and try to toss your pennies, one at a time, into a cup of water below. The person to get the most pennies into the cup wins the event and gets the point for his team.	Welcome to the Paper Plate Discus Event! Instructions 1)    Decide who will be first to throw the paper plate discus 2)   Place feet on starting line, and throw your paper straw javelin 3)   Estimate and record the distance thrown.  Which unit of measurement will you using to measure the distance? 4)   Using the ruler you made, measure the distance from the starting line to the position of your discus (the end closest to the starting line).  Record it in your chart. 5)   Calculate the difference.  Was your estimate close to the actual? 6)   Repeat for other participants  https://mathwhizkids.weebly.com/paper-plate-discus.html
Famous greek Landmark Challenge cards.... Give materials and let build in a certain time?   https://thestemlaboratory.com/famous-landmark-stem-challenge/		Ring Toss
Chariot race

Water relay

  https://www.australiancurriculumlessons.com.au/2013/11/09/capacity-capers-water-relay-measuring-capacity-grade-34/

Introduction:

1. Have Students seated in a circle. Explain they will be involved in a relay race.
2. Today we are going to work in teams to move as much water as we can from one bowl to another using  just one sponge per team.
3. This race will not be timed, it is not about which team completes the activity fastest.  Rather it is a game of accuracy: Which team can move the most water from one bowl to other, wasting the smallest amount of water.
4. Each team will begin with 1 litre of water. 
5. Divide the students into teams of 4-6 students. Have the teams discuss strategies which may be helpful in moving the water accurately from one bowl to the other. Cradling hands under the sponge, not over saturating the sponge so water can be lost in the transfer.

Body:

1. Teams are to move outside. Each team is given 2 bowls and one sponge. The teams lines up one behind the other with one bowl in front of team member number 1 and the other about 5 metres away.
2. Each team measures out (with your guidance – as a check) 1 litre or 1000ml and empties it into the starting bowl.
3. Remind the teams that this is not a timed activity. It is a relay race and they will take it in turns to as much of the water from the start bowl to the other using only a household sponge. The goal of the teams is to transfer the water from one bowl to the other with as little loss as possible, so stress they are not to rush.
4. Offer one last chance for questions and clarification from the students and then begin the activity. When teams have transferred all of their water they are to sit down and wait for all teams to finish.
5. When all teams have transferred all their water and have none left in their original bowl, the teams then measure how much water they successfully transferred using measuring cups with scaled metric measurements.
6. In their teams, students compare the original 1 litre of water with the value they have left, and calculate the amount of water they lost during the activity.
7. Who was able to transfer  the most water?  How much water was lost by each group? Compare findings and order the teams in places from 1st through to last.
8. Discuss any strategies which helped in the transfer of water. Would you change how you transferred the water? What helped? What did not.
9. As a comparison, you can complete another relay following the same directions. Can you transfer more water? (waste less water?) Compare the results.
10. Children are to record their findings in a table and could go ahead and display their findings in a graph of some kind.

Resources:

• 2 bowls per team of students
• 1 sponge per team of students
• measuring jugs/cups
• 1 litre of water per team