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The assignment:
The 2018 Winter Olympics begins on February 9, 2018. It concludes on February 25, 2018. Your assignment is to pick one of the winter sports (alpine skiing, biathlon, bobsledding, cross country skiing, curling, figure skating, freestyle skiing, ice hockey, lugging, Nordic combined, short track skating, skeleton lugging, ski jumping, snowboarding or speed skating) to watch, research and make a poster with the following information. You also have to write an informational paragraph detailing what you learned about the sport. Parents will be invited in to hear the students share their posters with the class. Try to dress as if you were competing in the sport your researched!
This project is due March 1, 2018
The time of the presentations will be announced later.
Poster requirements
- Name of sport clearly written and spelled correctly (5pts.)
- Name and country of the winner of the…
- Gold medalist (2pts)
- Silver medalist (2pts)
- Bronze medalist (2pts)
- Name of at least two U.S. competitors (2pts)
- At least three facts about each of the U.S. competitors (12 pts)
- A picture of the U.S. competitors you wrote about (5pts)
- At least five interesting facts about the sport you watched (15pts)
- At least four pictures of the sport (5pts)
- Total possible points: 50
- Spelling, capitalization and punctuation (10pts)
- The sport is clearly explained (rules and equipment are mentioned) (20pts)
- There is a topic sentence (10pts)
- There are at least 3 supporting details or facts about the sport (10pts)
- Total possible points: 50