Calculating Speed - Using the London Olympics

This is a lesson where the students learn to calculate speed. There is a word search to put on the board as they come in (to fulfil the literacy part and they are all maths words so you can get them to put them into sentences), and they can come up and have a go. A lesson plan is embedded in the title page. Then some rounding to the nearest whole number questions, there is a calculator embedded so you can show them what to do. You can show them a video on the London Olympics which is embedded and then there are some questions to see how much information they can remember. You then calculate the speed of divers rowers and runners. You can change the speed to km/h and talk about how you would do that.
The students then complete a worksheet, this again is embedded, it askes the students to identify the sport(there are dashes _ _ _ _ _ to give them a clue to how many letters there are in the name) and then using the information they have been given work out how fast the athletes are going. This is differentiated and colour coded for some of the students who will struggle, this was created for a very mixed ability group. There is an extension task to calculate the distance and time for those that can move on.
Plenary
Finally, there is a top gear clip of a car and plane, you have to calculate the average speed, to differentiate that you could get some students to calculate the speed in Km/h or mph. It’s a fun speed lesson.