PICTURE THIS

Science Olympiad Summer InstitutePhoenix, AZJuly 13 - 17, 2015

DESCRIPTION

•One team member draws a representation of a scientific term/concept while the other team member guesses what term/concept is being drawn

•A team of 2 (new this year)

Event Parameters

•Supervisor provides

•writing implements

•paper

The Competition

•Number of terms 16 - 25

•All teams use same terms in same order

The Competition (cont.)

•Time - 4 minutes

•Time begins when supervisor gives 1st Sketcher the 1st term

The Competition (cont.)

•Each team member will take turns drawing

•A term may be passed

•If a term is passed, the drawing rotates to the other team member

•Sketcher may not speak except to pass on a term

The Competition (cont.)

•Letters of any alphabet, numbers of any kind are not allowed

•Symbols are not allowed EXCEPT

•“+” or “-” allowed to lengthen or shorten a word

•“_” allowed to indication number of word(s) in a term/concept

•The Competition (cont.)

•After guesser has said one of the words the sketcher may write that term down after supervisor approves of the word

•Sketchers can not write parts of a word

The Competition (cont.)

•Forms of word not accepted with the exception of singulars and plurals

The Competition (cont.)

•Sketchers may not give visual clues except supervisor demonstrated clues such as nodding to indicate yes or no.

•Teams violating rules about alphabets, numbers, symbols, etc. will have the term in play counted as a pass.

Scoring

•One point awarded for each term correctly identified

•Team identifying the most terms is the winner

Scoring

•Tiebreakers

•1st - fewest terms passed

•2nd - shortest period of time to complete entire list

•3rd - longest string of consecutively correct terms

•4th - team which identifies the first word in the list not correctly identified by the other team

Terms/Concepts

•Should represent a cross-sampling of science disciplines

•Earth

•Life

•Physical Science

•Technology

•Inquiry

Terms/Concepts

•May be found in index or glossary of age appropriate

•textbooks

•dictionaries

•other science resources