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Rugby World Cup: Hosting a Global Sporting Event

Exploring the impact of a global sporting event.

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Rugby World Cup: Spaces and Places

Objectives

These are the things you should be able to do after you have completed the activities in this strand: Define the difference between an arena, stadium and venue Identify the locations and names of the venues for games that are played in the World Cup Demonstrate an understanding of the relationship between a nominated venue and the surrounding environment Present information about a nominated venue

Introductory activity - what's in a name?

Objectives

Understand the difference between a stadium, an arena and a venue.

When we start to look at places where people gather to watch sport, we need to have a look at the different names that these places are called. Generally an arena is the term used to describe a place where people meet to watch a cultural activity - for example, a rock concert. The term stadium is generally used to describe a place where sport is played. A venue is a term used to describe any place where people gather for any reason for example, a wedding, social, conference or game. Usually arenas and stadiums are very large and the biggest one in the world holds 120,000 people. Could you find out where this stadium is? Let's look at some pictures of stadiums to become familiar with their design features that make it possible to hold large amounts of people at any one time..

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  Twickenham

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  Eden Park

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  Murrayfield

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  AMI Stadium

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  Millenium Stadium

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  Sydney Olympic Stadium

• MCG stadium.jpg

  MCG

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  Stadium Budapest

Activity

Identify 3 design features of a stadium Examine this photo and think about the following questions Westpac Stadium What is the name of the shape of the stadium? Why do you think it is shaped like this? Where do the players play? Why is this? Can you identify where people can enter or exit the Stadium? Why is it important to know where your exits are?

Reflection

Lets think about what we know: Stadiums, arenas and venues are all names that describe a place where people gather to either watch sport, music or any other activity - for example a wedding, conference or school social. Stadiums are designed to allow all the people a view of the game, to prevent noise escaping into the neighbourhood and maximise safe movement in and out of the venue. Using the information you have thought about, complete the sentences below: If I was going to a music concert, I would probably be going to watch it in an .............. The All Blacks play rugby mostly in a .......................... Stadiums are a 'round' or 'oval' shape because ............................................... Inward curved roofs on stadiums help prevent ............................................ A ............... is a term used to describe place where people gather for an event e.g a wedding or rugby game.

Portfolio Activity

Glossary: create a new post in your portfolio titled 'Glossary'. Add the words venue, stadium and arena to the glossary and explain what they are in your own words. Reflection: make another post called: "Stadiums and their environments". Write in ONE thing you have learnt about how a stadium is designed to protect people or the surrounding environment. You may like to include some pictures to help with your explanation.

Location, Location, Location

Objectives

When you have completed your job as 'stadium hunter' you should be able to do the following things: Identify the major venues where games are being played Link the venues to the towns/cities or regions

Activity

A stadium treasure hunt Throughout the country there are 13 stadiums and 12 locations where the Rugby World Cup games are being played. Your group have been given the role of 'stadium hunters' and you have one hour to identify and find a picture of each of the stadium names and their locations. Helpful hints: Computer generated research: Use your researching skills on the internet Organise your group so that someone records the information as you find it. Start a new folder to put your pictures into. Classroom based research: Read the information that your Teacher gives you Allocate jobs in your group to manage the photos, recording information and checking the results. Presenting your information Present your findings using one of the options below. Which ever one you choose, your presentation must include at least one named image of each stadium and a map showing the location. A wall poster, brochure or equivalent or An electronic format of your choice such as a Powerpoint, Keynote, podcast or slideshow

Resources

Internet: Web Link: http://www.worldstadiums.com/ Internet: Web Link: http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/home/pools/index.html Classroom: Resource Pack One: Venues and Locations

Reflection

Let's look at the displays and discuss the following The venues seem to be evenly distributed over the country - do you think this is planned? If so - what are the benefits? Some of the stadiums are much bigger than others - what will this mean for some of the games? What are some of the features that the stadiums all have in common?

Portfolio Activity

Glossary: Add to the glossary in your portfolio by explaining in your own words, the meaning of at least 5 new or interesting words you may have come across in this activity. For example - pollution, economics, capacity, population. Reflection: think of the learning you have been involved in during this activity. Write a new reflective post in your portfolio using the following headings as a guide. What?: What did you do? So What?: What did you learn? Now What?: Now what do you want to focus on?

Our journey to the Rugby World Cup

Your country is hosting an International Sporting event and your group has been given tickets and enough money to cover the costs of attending a game at one of the playing venues. Your group will be asked to design a trip to this venue that will involve some accomodation and travel options, one related activity to do in the location and some research into your nominated venues history and environment. There is a prize for the group that can find all the cheapest travel and accomodation options.

Objectives

Discover how to choose transport and accomodation options when planning a trip Learn about the tourist activities available in a town other than your own Develop an understanding of the relationship between a venue and its surrounding environment

Activity

Competition for the venue Your group now has the opportunity to compete for tickets for the World Cup in 2011. There is a mix and match quiz below. You will have 15 minutes to match the venue with the location and then try and match the 'no. of games that will be played' at each stadium as well. Complete this quiz on a separate piece of paper and hand it to the teacher with your group name at the top. The group with the highest number of right answers will be the first to choose which venue they will be going.

Activity

Planning the journey Now that you have completed the quiz and have been allocated a venue as your destination, you will now need to complete the following steps: Decide how you will get to your venue - look at land travel and air travel options Decide where you could stay for one night - look at a camping ground or back packers and a Motel or Hotel Decide what activity you could do at your location - look at visiting a museum, mountain biking, horse riding, bungy jumping etc Find out about the history of your venue Find out about how your venue was designed to protect the surrounding environment from noise and excess traffic

Resources

Students using the internet as a search tool. You should enter either the name of the location or the name of the stadium you are visiting. Both of these will direct you either to the Town/City website where all this information can be found or straight to the stadium you are investigating. Students using classroom based resources. You can use the Lonely Planet Guides for New Zealand, or AA Travel Guides for New Zealand to source all your travel, accomodation and activity options. To find information out about your stadium you will need to either write to your respective venue, or use prepared resources compiled by your Teacher.

Reflection

Organising a trip can be exciting and time consuming depending on how well you worked together as a group and how easy it was to access the information you needed. In your groups, discuss the following: How easy was it to access our information? What would we do differently next time if we were planning a trip?

Portfolio Activity

Create a new post in your portfolio and compose a short reflection that summarises what you have learnt about planning and organising an overnight trip. Use the PMI (plus, minus & interesting) framework to guide your thoughts. Plus: all the positive elements of the activity Minus: all the negative elements of the activity Interesting: anything that is neither positive or negative

Presenting your information

Once you have collected your data about your Venue, you will need to organise it into an easy to present format for the class to understand. Your presentation should take about 20 minutes for your group

Activity

Choosing a presentation method You can choose to present your information: Using an electronic presentation method. You could take this opportunity to learn about Google Earth or use a standalone software such as Microsoft PowerPoint/Keynote or Movie Maker/iMovie Students using a physical display method can take some time planning how best to present their information using physical resources such as a poster, pamphlet, flip chart, display or book.

Key points

Google Earth - useful information Choosing to use Google Earth to present your information will allow you the opportunity to create an entire trip from your beginning location to your Venue Destination. It is possible to build layers for your accomodation and activities and also to narrate the journey online. We recommend you familiarise yourselves with Google Earth using the Help and Tutorial facility.

Portfolio Activity

Create a new post in your portfolio. Insert a link to your Google Earth Journey, embed your PowerPoint or insert a photo of your display that your group presented to the class. Write a reflection for this activity using the following headings as a guide. What?: What did you do? So What?: What did you learn? Now What?: Now what do you want to focus on?

Evaluating your journey

Reflection

Lets think about the things that we learnt in this strand and discuss them as a class. Firstly we started our journey with some interesting information about arenas, stadiums and venues. We then 'hunted down' all the venues being used to host games in New Zealand for the Rugby World Cup We then took a journey to a venue with our group and did a fact finding mission about the venues history, environment and location. Finally we presented and shared our information with the class. Questions to think about and discuss. What was the most interesting piece of information we discovered when we explored the history of our stadiums? Environmentally aware city councils go to great lengths to ensure their stadiums for the Rugby World Cup are safe, secure and non-polluting - lets discuss what we found out about the stadiums we investigated and ask yourselves if these venues are meeting the needs of their communities by being environmentally non-pollutting and safe? What were the skills we found the most difficult to learn when we presented our information back to the class?

Portfolio Activity

Compose a reflection for your portfolio that shows a range of the knowledge and skills that you have discovered in this strand. You might like to write this reflection in the format of a story using your journey as the outline.