Monday, March 25th

Today,we analysed the information from the survey. Unfortunately, there were only 31 people.
Here are the results to the survey:

  

Tuesday, March 19th

Today, we were planning to analyze the result for our survey, but unfortunately, only 20 people responded. Instead, we decided to catch upon the progress log. Also, we sent Mr. Slade the interview questions through Email because William suggested that we should get more opinions from physical education experts. 

Monday, March 18th

Today, we used Survey Monkey to create our survey. Here is the link to the survey:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/NJPYMHD

We also made an event on Facebook to get people to complete the survey. In total, we invited around 130 people. Hopefully, 50 people will respond. Also Ms. Piercy had answered the question we sent her. Finally we created and decorated the progress log blog for our genius hour project.  

Saturday March 16th

Today, we began to plan out what we are putting in the survey that we are going to send to people in our school. We want to know the main reason that makes students demotivated in PE class. Then we went to look for the general preferences of a new motivational sport/game. We came up with these basic ideas for the survey:

Friday, March 15th

Today, we asked Ms. Piercy if we could interview her through Email over spring break. However, she will be going on vacation, so we sent the questions over to her during lunch.  We also asked her if we could "borrow" a block of PE class to test out our new sport/game. She agreed and told us to tell her ahead of time when we are ready to test.

Wednesday, March 13th

Today, we decided to interview our PE teacher, Ms. Piercy. We wanted her opinions of PE education and her advice on creating a new sport/game. William did some brainstorming and came up with this: 

1. What are some elements that can motivate a student in PE class? 

2. What type of game can make the students think that it is interesting?
3. What are some basic rules of a sport or game?
4. What elements should be included for showing the physical ability of a student?
5. What kind of equipment can make the game/sport interesting?
6. Which type of sport/game can motivate the students: indoors or outdoors?

Later we made some changes and added a few more questions. We ended up with these questions:

1. What do you think is the main reason that some students do not participate in class?

2. What is your strategy of motivating your students to participate?
3. In your opinion, what are elements in a sport/game or type of sport/game that are most enjoyed by students? (Eg. racket sports, ball sports, running)
4. Do you think that lots of equipment is necessary to make a sport interesting?
5. What are some basic elements that make a good sport/game?
6. In PE class, what do you do to accommodate all the students with different physical skill levels?
7. Are you satisfied with the current PE education system? What are some improvements that can be made?

Friday, March 8th

Today, we did our conference with Ms.lees. She suggested that we should present our "sport/game" by leading our English class for a whole block and actually let them try it out. Here is the link to our pre-planning /proposal: 

https://docs.google.com/document/d/18We06b5tRPCPr0U6pLYf0dPzOC2yznEVtUflQZZ1KJY/edit

Revised version after conference:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MlfepCynWXKajAOCACb2d7UZ68KPndCTQjF3iDKV6VM/edit