Kia ora! It’s been a while since I have posted a blog post.
This term we have been learning about the Olympics, a few weeks ago we read about the ancient and modern Olympics but this week we are more focused on the Paralympics, we are learning about when it started, why it started and the athletes that are in it.
We have slides that we have to fill out throughout the week while we read about the Paralympics. Something new that I learnt about the Paralympics is that it started right after World War 2 because when the war was over there were a lot of disabled people.
Our create task this week was to pick an athlete that was in the Paralympics and create some sort of device that will help them during the Paralympics. I chose Lisa Adams, she is a Shot Putter and Discus thrower. She was diagnosed with left leg hemiplegia which means she is paralyzed in her left leg, even though throwers use there arms they still need there legs for power so I created a device for her leg.
This is my create task