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IPS Assessment Unit 1 Sports - 1.0 Create the Ultimate Physics Obstacle Course

==Scenario== Remember when you were a young small laddie/lassie in elementary school and you competed in Field Day. You may have enjoyed the events, you may have thought you could design a much better course with better events. Well, here is your chance.

==Challenge== Create a fun and challenging obstacle course in which the physics principles that we have learned can be measured or demonstrated.

Details/ Course Specifications:

• The course dimensions will have to be within the limits of a tennis court (Haverford High School).
• Minimum of four skill events that measure or demonstrate the following physics principles:
  • Average Speed
  • Instantaneous Speed
  • Acceleration
  • Projectile Motion
• The full course will be run a total of 4 times by either 3 or 4 people on the team in a relay method, i.e., one person runs through the course comes back and tags the next person.
• Due to the relay nature of the obstacle course, the course must be exactly the same after each student runs through it, as it was before the student ran through it.
• You obstacle course must be safe for all students to go through.

Here’s the great part

Once you have come up with a successful and fun design that meets the criteria, your class will vote on the best course design. The best design from our class will go head to head against the best from other IPS classes’ designs during the same block. All of the students that have IPS during that block will have the opportunity to vote on the design that they feel is the best. That obstacle course will be the one that you- the IPS students- run and compete on. Two identical obstacle courses will be made side by side. Students from all of the classes during that block will be challenged to complete that obstacle course in the shortest amount of time possible. The two fastest teams will go head to head against each other in the championship round.

Grade

You will be graded on your presentation to the class based on a rubric that we make up together. Your presentation to the class will include a model/ visual representation of your obstacle course. You must demonstrate (on the visual representation) how the above physics principles are incorporated into the events. When applicable you should include numbers and sample calculations.