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The students participate in skating in the school sessions at the local ice rinks. Their experience includes skating instruction, on and off ice skill games, and math, science, reading, writing and social studies activities that relate directly to skating, focusing on topics such as human anatomy, movement, fitness, chemistry, physics, geometry, measurements, geography and world cultures.   Students are also introduced to the Olympic movement, the history of ice skating and the Olympic Games.
Students from different school districts participate in group and paired activities structured to build positive relationships, cooperative work skills and improved awareness of other cultures while working together to solve common real-life problems.  The program focuses on these essential questions:

• What is ice skating and why do people do it?  (How to move on ice skates; leisure; travel; sport)
 

• How does ice skating work? (Physics, kinetic friction; momentum)
 

• How do you move across the ice? (Balance; pushing; propulsion; inertia; gliding; turning; forward skating; backward skating; partnering; stopping; Newton’s Law of Motion; human muscle system; moving to music)
 

• What is ice? (Chemical properties; changes in matter; molecular motion)
 

• What shapes can I make on the ice? (Curves; line segments; perimeter; diameter; circumference; radius; concave/convex figures)
 

• What are the Olympics? (World celebration; celebration of diverse cultures; winter sports; vocabulary; reading; responding)
 

• Why is ice skating fun and worthwhile? (Physical fitness; real-life application of science principles; problem solving; making new friends; working with positive role models)
 

The program supports Kindergarten through 12th grade school students’ needs to be active, social and have fun with their peers while learning and applying new skills and concepts.  Students learn that skating is not only a fun activity, but also one that can unite diverse people for common goals, improve teamwork, foster discipline, promote friendship, and encourage perseverance and self-esteem.