Wheelchair sports: Hang Glider to Wheeler- Dealer

What is inferencing?

• Cooking with Ideas= cookies

• Text evidence+ background Knowledge= Lightbulb

• Pictures+ tacos = Inferencing

• Text evidence + thinking/ Knowledge= ideas/ inferencing.

What made the Quickie different from a traditional wheel chair?

• It was blue.

• the wheels where wider at the bottom and closer to the body on top.

• it was lower to the ground.

• it had orange flames with black outlines.

The new Wheelchair was made with (a)   .

Who is Dr. Guttmann?

• A German doctor

• a brain surgeon

• created wheelchair polo and basketball

• an english man from Wales

Who was Marilyn Hamilton?

• An English professor

• An engineer inventor

• one of the inventors of the Quickie

• an famous tennis player

Why did Marilyn develop blisters on her hands?

• She was using her hands in a new way that she was not used to.

• from the wheelchair breaks

• from eating some hot tacos

• she was trying to get a ghost pepper.

If a company (a)   in something, it provided a specific type of product.

Which of the following has been modified to allow wheelchairs? (check all that apply)

• baksetball

• track

• polo

• rugby