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=**Our project:**= Student handout

=**Where would be a great city to host the next Olympics and why?**=

The Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics gave us as Nanaimoites, an opportunity to experience the Olympic feeling first hand. With the torch relay weaving through out city, to two torch bearers visiting our school and letting us hold the official Olympic torch, to Canadian Olympic athletes telling us about their Olympic experiences, we were able to take part in the Olympic movement. From our Olympic reading challenge to various Olympic assignments and viewing the Games on TV, staff and students at Fairview Community School saw the Vancouver 2010 Games close up. How did it feel to see reporters from all over the world speak so glowingly of our province or watch them report from aboard a BC Ferry? What was it like to watch Ghana's Snow Leopard train at Mount Washington here on Vancouver Island? How did you feel when you saw the streets of Vancouver packed with fans from around the world? When Canada won the gold medal in hockey? What was your favourite Olympic moment?

With the Olympics still fresh in our minds, Ms Brayden and I thought it would be a great opportunity to discover countries around the world through the Olympic eye. What does that mean? Through this unit you will decide where the next Olympics should be held. We know the following cities have been chosen: London 2012 - Summer Sochi 2014 - Winter Rio de Janeiro 2016 - Summer

Your task is to present a bid to Fairview's IOC committee to determine where the next Winter (2018) or Summer Olympics (2020) should be held.

To bid means to make an offer to host the Olympics, the offer is made to the International Olympic Committee known as the IOC

The IOC has specific guidelines for a city to eligible to host an Olympic Games. We will review these guidelines in our quest to create a bid. At first we may choose countries that we think would be great, then after research we may realize they aren't suitable to host the Olympics. That's okay! We will have learned about the countries and why they aren't suitable which will be just as valuable as learning about countries that are suitable.

Over the next week we will create a rubrics for assessing the project. Your input will be necessary to make it the best assessment possible. Throughout the inquiry phase of our unit, we will self assess, peer assess and student/teacher assess in interviews using our student portfolios. The majority of our work will be done in groups, using the group strategies that we have worked on in class including being responsible to your group, listening actively, speaking up, sharing the air and encouraging others and showing tolerance and respect for all (Harvey and Daniels 2009 p. 46-47). We will continue to practice these strategies throughout the unit.

After preliminary research has been gathered groups will determine whether their chosen city would qualify to host an Olympics. If the answer is no, they will be asked to make a short statement to the class on why the country would not qualify. As in the real Olympic bids students from those groups will then be disperesed to other groups still in the running. Further research and discovery will take place, led by questions from students. Remember our //Reading Power// (Gear 2006) Questioning techniques to help create deep thinking questions.

We will be following the //Focus on Inquiry// (Alberta Learning 2004) model which some of you have worked with in the past. As the model shows it is circular, meaning it doesn't have an end or beginning point. We will weave between stages, back and forth until we get the information we need and resolve the questions we have.

This assignment is about discovery, you get to determine what is the most important information to cover in your bid, how you want to present your bid and what questions are most important. You are the captains of your bid ships and Ms Brayden and Mrs Martineau are here to help guide your way. This is your project....Have Fun!

Ms Brayden & Mrs Martineau