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Get physical

Physical fitness will help you to perform better in your sports. Do you know what it takes to be fit and healthy?

1. Take the fitness challenge by playing this quiz.

   Email your score to ed@tki.org.nz.

   All good sports people and athletes understand how their bodies work.

2. Play this interactive ‘Muscle game’ to learn more.
3. Open a Word document and copy these pages:
   • Front view
   • Back view
4. On the Word document write the common name for this part of the body underneath the medical name already shown.
5. Choose one of these sports: hockey, cricket, tennis, or baseball.
   • Think carefully about the type of movements needed to run, hit, throw or catch.
   • Would you twist, stretch, lift, bend, duck, dive, or jump when playing this sport?
   • Write the name of your sport and five different muscles that would be used to help you play that sport.

Email your word document to ed@tki.org.nz

Hākinakina i runga pouaka whakaata

E hia nei te roa o tētahi hākinakina e whakaatuhia ana ki runga pouaka whakaata? Hangaia he papa tūtohi mō ia tūmahi e rua nei kia kitea ō otinga kōrero.

1. Rapua ngā haora e whakaatuhia ana ngā mahinga hākinakina i runga i te pouaka whakaata i ngā wā rā whakatā.
   • TVNZ,
   • TV3,
   • Maori Television.
2. Huakina he pepa Word, ka rau i ō rapunga kōrero ki roto i te papa tūtohi, nā, mō ia rārangi me whakarite i ngā hongere rerekē, ana ko tētahi mō ngā haora katoa.
3. Me whakamahi ngā hononga nei hei rapu i ngā momo hakinakina e whakaatuhia ana i runga pouaka whakaata. Ko tēhea o ngā hākinakina te mea e kaha ana te whakaatu i runga pouaka whakaata?

Īmēratia tō papa tūtohi ki a wiki@tki.org.nz

Reaching your goals

To help Tipani stay motivated with her sport she likes to hear about what other sportspeople do to help them reach their goals.

1. Listen to Rob Hamill and Linda Vagana talking about motivation and goal setting.
   • View clips 1, 2, and 4
   • View clips 10 and 11
   What is your favourite sport? Do you play a team sport like Linda or you are an individual sportsperson like Rob?
2. Open a new Word document. Use your name and the name of your sport as a heading. Write five tips you learnt from Rob and Linda to help motivate you with this sport.
3. Using the ‘draw tools’ (Word 20KB) colour and clip art on your computer to make a card with five tips to help you with your own sport.

Email your card to ed@wicked.org.nz

Asking the right questions

Every month Ed finds a famous New Zealander and gets people like you to ask them questions. You can read about these people in the Ed Celeb archives.

1. Go to the Ed Celeb archives, remember to look at all the pages here.
2. Open up a Word document and call it Ed Celeb. This is where you will put your answers to the following questions:
   • How many sporty celebs has Ed interviewed in the past?
   • How many of them are involved in a team sport?
   • Write a list of 10 famous New Zealand sportspeople you and your class would like to interview.
   • Choose one sportsperson from your list and write five questions you would like them to answer for you.

Send in your ‘Ed Celeb’ Word document to ed@wicked.org.nz

Front page news

Many newspapers will have a photo and news story of major sporting achievements on the front page of their newspaper.

1. Complete all the activities in this newspaper interactive to learn more about how to write a news story.
   • Read the instructions carefully before you start.
   • Print a copy of your answers.
2. Watch an important sports game at school so you can write a news story about it.
   • Remember to check all your facts and the spelling of names.
   • Take a photo of the players during the game.
   • Look at the ‘New Zealand Herald’ website to get more ideas about catchy headlines.
3. Open a word document and make a front page for a newspaper. Remember to use the 'tool bar' in Word.

Email your news story to ed@wicked.org.nz

Mountain climbing

Sir Edmund Hillary is New Zealand’s most famous mountain climber.

1. Follow Sir Ed’s footsteps up Mt Everest by doing this webquest.
2. Open up the ‘Mountain terms’ document (Word 40KB) and label the diagram correctly.
3. List five things that can be dangerous when climbing a mountain.

Email your list to ed@tki.org.nz

Ki-o-rahi

Rapua ngā kōrero mō tēnei kēmu tawhito, arā te Ki-o-rahi, i tākarohia ana i Aotearoa nei i mua i te taenga mai o te Pākehā. He rerekē anō ngā ture o tēnei kēmu i te nuinga o ngā kēmu o nāianei.

1. Hangaia ake tāu ake ‘tīma moemoeā’ o ngā kaitākaro toki rawa atu mō tēnei kēmu. Kia maumahara ko ngā tīma nei me whakakī ki ngā tamariki me ngā pākeke.
   • Tohua he kaiwhakahaere mō te tima, me tētahi kaiwawao hoki.
   • Me hoatu whakaaro mō ia mema o te tīma tae atu ki te kaiwhakahaere me te kaiwawao, arā, te take i tohua ai e koe.
2. Hangaia he kākahu tākaro mō tō tīma.
3. Titoa hoki he waiata, he haka rānei mō tō tīma.

Īmēratia tō rārangi tīma, ō kākahu tākaro me tō waiata ki a wiki@tki.org.nz.

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