Average Athlete

We are going to be exploring proportions and ratio by using speed to create projects that try to give an audience a sense of how fast great athletes really are.

Here is the task:

You’ve been hired by TSN to create a visual, that could either be put on the website, or shown on TV, that effectively and clearly compares a rate or speed of a professional or Olympic athlete with an “average” person (you get to choose how to define average).

We started by watching some examples of videos that tried to provide a sense of speed as inspiration and a starting point:

In order to start the project you need to:

1) Identify your "athlete of excellence" - This can be any professional or world record holder.  The project does need to be based on a speed or rate.

Once you've identified your 'athlete of excellence' you need their speed that you will use as your comparison.  For example Usain Bolt's world record 100m time is 9.58second.

2) Identify who or what you will be comparing your athlete to in order to help show how fast your athlete of excellence is.

This can be one person (yourself, your friend, your Mom), multiple people, or an average of people.

Once you've identified your comparison you need to get a speed.  This means you need to find out how fast your average athlete did your identified task.  This might be as simple as finding how fast your run 100m (or using your last years track time) or you might need someone help you measure how fast you can shoot a puck, or throw a ball. 

You will need your data by the end of the week to avoid falling behind.  If you can't choose an athlete or task Mr. Hassett can give you an athlete and sample times.