Introduction
Congratulations! Your team made it to the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament. In your official capacity for the athletic department for your school, you are responsible for making the plans for your team to attend the tournament. In order to attend the Madness, you'll need to make travel plans, statistics will need to be gathered, possible opponents need to be studied, and you will need to create a program page. Your athletes and coaching staff are depending on you to create a wonderful experience. Are you ready for the Madness?
Task
The Task
Since you are officials from the athletic department of your school, you each will need to select a specific task to complete. Your specific task will be outlined when you land on the Process Page. As trusted members of the athletic department, your group will be collecting information pertaining to your team attending the NCAA Division I basketball tournament.
At the conclusion of your WebQuest, you will create a poster project which will contain the four projects for each of the roles.
Let the Madness begin!
Process
The Process
Congratulations! Your basketball team has been chosen to compete in the NCAA Division I basketball tournament in March. As officials from your school, you are responsible for making the final preparations for this exciting journey. There will be three roles for you to choose from: Athletic Director, Statistician, Public Relations Director, and Assistant Coach.
- First you'll be assigned to a team of ideally three students.
- As a team, you will be assigned a basketball team that is participating in the NCAA Division 1 tournament.
- Each student will choose at least one of the three roles.You will be responsibile for the tasks that are outlined for each position.
- After each role has completed their task, your original group will come back together to complete the final project.
Below you will find your role. Click on the basketball in front of your role to continue.
Employee 1 - Athletic Director
I can accurately read tables, graphs and mathematical data. I can use that data to make accurate calculations and plausible analysis.
As AD, your role is to make the travel arrangements for your team. You will need to make airline and hotel reservations.
First you will need to determine the cities in which your team will be playing. To do this first you need to find if your team is in the West, East, Midwest, or South Regional.
1.) Click on the basketball below to get this information. 
2.) Click on the map below to find the location of the sites for the 1st & 2nd round games, the regional site, and the final four site.
Next you will need to find the cost of airline tickets for your team to a.) the 1st and 2nd round game site b.) to the regional site c.) to the final four site. Each of these will need to be from your school city. Click on the airplane to find this information.
When you find your airline costs, click on these tickets to record your findings. You will need to purchase 36 tickets for the players, coaches, cheerleaders, etc.
You will want to MAKE a COPY of this form and save it in your DRIVE with your team name. Then provide sharing and editing rights to your team members and Mrs. Holden.
Your next job is to find the cost of the hotels for each city in which your team will be traveling. Click on the hotel to find the cost per night per room.
When you find the hotel costs, you need to record the information on the same sheet in your Drive that you recorded the information for airline costs.
Each person will be sharing a room with with one other person. You will need the rooms for 4 nights for the 1st and 2nds round games, 4 nights for the regional games, and 3 nights at the Final Four site.
When you have completed the table of costs for room and board for your team, you need to print a final copy. This will be attached to your group poster.
Employee 2 - Statistication
I can accurately read tables, graphs and mathematical data. I can use that data to make accurate calculations and plausible analysis.
As statistication, your role is to compare the statistics for your basketball team with the statistics of the Final Four Teams from the 2015 NCAA Tournament. MAKE SURE YOU ARE COMPARING REGULAR SEASON STATISTICS.
To find the year end statistics for your team click on the basketball player.
You will need to find the following statistics for your team:
1. Number of games played.
2. Average points scored per game
3. Average points scored by opponents per game
4. Field goal percentage and SHOW the equation
5. Free throw percentage and SHOW the equation.
6. Three point goal percentage and SHOW the equation
7. Average turnovers per game
8. Average steals per game
9. Average blocked shot per game
The final four teams for the 2015 NCAA Tournament:
- Duke
- Michigan State
- Kentucky
- Wisconsin
To find the statistics for the final four teams from 2015, click on the basketball.
You will need to find the same statistics as listed above for each of these teams. Make sure you are comparing REGULAR season stats!
When you have found the needed information, fill in the table found by clicking on the arrow.
Make sure you make a COPY, SAVE the copy with your team name to your Drive and allow rights to your teammates and Mrs. Holden.
When you complete the table, you need to print a copy which will be your part of the final project. From these statistics, does you team have what it takes to reach the Final Four????
Employee 3 - Public Relations Director
I can accurately read tables, graphs and mathematical data. I can use that data to make accurate calculations and plausible analysis.
As Public Relations Director, your role is to create a page for the tournament program about your school. You will be using a Google Docs to construct your page.You will need to include the following information on your page:
- The name of your school
- A map of the United States with the location of your school indicated.
- A picture of your campus.
- A picture of your mascot.
- A well developed three paragraph summary about the history of your school and how many times your school has made it to the NCAA Tournament.
To make your program page, you will be using Google Docs. You will need to print your completed program page to send to the NCAA tournament officials and you will need to allow Mrs. Holden and your teammates rights to your page. You will need to include this on the poster for your final project.
Also you will need to find a picture of your state's map and mark the location of your school.
All Employees
After each of the officials from the atheltic department have completed their assigned task, you will need to come back together with your original group. You will need to create a poster that contains the final product from each role. Good luck and hopefully your team will make it to the "final four"! Let the Madness begin!
Evaluation
Each student will be graded individually on their portion of the final project. Part of their individual grade will be based on completion of the final project by the group. Each of the roles has a task that they must complete, print, and transfer to a poster for their group.
Below are scoring guides that can be used to evaluate each task for each role.
| Athletic Director |
Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Accomplished 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Student will compute the cost of Airfare to the tournaments |
Costs were not accurate. Mistakes were made in calculations. |
Cost of ticket was accurate but several mistakes made in calculations. |
Cost of a single ticket was accurate and most calculations were correct. |
Cost of a single ticket was accurate and all calculations were correct. |
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Student was to compute the hotel costs for the tournaments
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Student was not able to obtain the needed information. |
Cost per night was not accurate and mistakes were made in calculations. |
Cost per night was accurate with a few mistakes in calculations. |
Cost per night was accurate and all calculations were correct. |
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Student made a printout of Airfare costs and hotel costs for the tournament
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Printout was completed but most calculations were inaccurate. |
Printout was completed with more than 8 mistakes in calculations. |
Printout was complete with several mistakes in calculations. |
Printout was complete with not mistakes in calculations. |
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Budget printout for Airfare and hotel costs was displayed on group poster. |
Printout was on poster but was not complete. |
Printout was not neatly displayed. |
Printout was displayed neatly on poster. |
Printout was completed and displayed in an appealing form on poster. |
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Group poster will be created from each individual task. |
All 4 individual task were not displayed on poster. |
All 4 tasks were displayed but overall appearance was not appealing. |
All 4 tasks were displayed in a rather appealing form. |
All 4 tasks were displayed in an attractive form. |
| Statistician |
Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Accomplished 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Student will find and record needed statistics for their assigned team. |
Statistics were inaccurate or incomplete. |
Most statistics were gathered but not all accurate. |
All statistics were gathered but not all accurate. |
All statistics were gathered and accurate. |
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Student will find and record needed statistics for 1999 Final Four teams.
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Most statistics were gathered but not all accurate. |
All statistics were gathered but not all accurate. |
All statistics were gathered and accurate. |
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Student made a printout comparing statistics of team to the 1999 Final Four teams
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Printout was incomplete and some statistics were inaccurate. |
Printout was mostly complete but some statistics were inaccurate. |
Printout was complete with a few inaccurate statistics. |
Printout was complete and all statistics were accurate. |
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Budget printout for Airfare and hotel costs was displayed on group poster. |
Printout was on poster but was not complete. |
Printout was not neatly displayed. |
Printout was displayed neatly on poster. |
Printout was completed and displayed in an appealing form on poster. |
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Group poster will be created from each individual task. |
All 4 individual task were not displayed on poster. |
All 4 tasks were displayed but overall appearance was not appealing. |
All 4 tasks were displayed in a rather appealing form. |
All 4 tasks were displayed in an attractive form. |
| Public Relations Director |
Beginning 1 |
Developing 2 |
Accomplished 3 |
Exemplary 4 |
Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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Student will include a picture of their assigned school on their program page. |
Program page was printed but did not include a picture of their school. |
A picture of their school was included was not very appealing. |
Program page included a picture of the school but was not titled. |
Program page included a picture of school neatly displayed and titled. |
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Student will include a picture of the team mascot on their program page.
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Program page was printed but did not include a picture of mascot. |
A picture of their mascot was included was not very appealing. |
Program page included a picture of the mascot but was not titled.. |
Program page included a picture of school neatly displayed and titled. |
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Student will include a map with the location of their school clearly identified.
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Program page was printed but did not include a map. |
Program page included a map but the school was not located and identified. |
Program page included map with school location marked but not identified. |
Program page included map with school location marked and identified. |
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Student will include a brief description of their school and their participation in the tournament. |
Description was made but did not include information about the tournament. Many spelling and grammatical errors. |
Description was made but did not include information about the tournament. Several spelling and grammatical errors. |
Description was made that included information about team's past tournament appearances. A few spelling and grammatical errors. |
Description was made that included information about team's past tournament appearances. No spelling or grammatical errors. |
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Group poster will be created from each individual task. |
All 4 individual task were not displayed on poster. |
All 4 tasks were displayed but overall appearance was not appealing. |
All 4 tasks were displayed in a rather appealing form. |
All 4 tasks were displayed in an attractive form. |
Conclusion
CONCLUSION
I hope your team showed character and good sportsmanship as they progressed in the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament. Perhaps they even made it to the Final Four of the NCAA Division I Basketball Tournament. As the Athletic Director, Statistician, and Public Relations Director for your team, the preparations for the trip are now complete.
Your group should have completed a poster that included the airfare and hotel costs, a comparison of your team's stats and the stats from last year's final four teams, a page about your school for the program, and a possible tournament bracket with your predictions.
Credits
Teacher Page
Go Michigan State! Even if Michigan State doesn't do well, I hope thier character and sportsmanship shines through!