Running STEM Challenge

Key Stage:: Key Stage 3

Key Stage 4
Duration:: 30mins or more
Led by:: Teacher

School staff

Young Leaders

Parents

Downloadable PDF (e.g. resource card, lesson plan)

Activity details

STEM offer a series of three exciting cross-curricular challenges investigating what it takes to run a sub two-hour marathon, focusing on pace making and hands on practical work in physics, biology, and maths.

Activity: Group or individual
Purpose of activity: To increase pupil physical activity through personal challenge
Inclusion for all: Think STEP for differentiation
Pupil roles: Participant

Learning Objectives

To understand air resistance is a force which slows things down
To investigate how air resistance can be minimised.

The 1:59 Challenge didn’t just write a new chapter in the history of sport, the work of the performance team also created a completely new way to run marathons with their extraordinary innovation in formation of the pace-making team. On 12 October 2019, Eliud Kipchoge broke the last great barrier in modern athletics, the two-hour marathon. In doing so, he inspired others to believe that they can overcome their own personal barriers. He believes that #NoHumanIsLimited.

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