Olympics

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Teaching and Learning Proforma -
OLYMPICS

Intended Outcomes:

The Olympic Games enables us to look at

    Australia as part of the world
    History and tradition
    Role of the media
    Perspective of competition

Develop skills of understanding and knowledge of the world.

Strategies to answer own questions. Improve information literacy skills (defining, searching, selecting, organising, presenting).

Improve use of information technology.

Cooperative learning strategies to be practised.

Engaging students:

Prior to the Olympics brainstorm in groups their understanding of the Olympics - the history, who participates, symbols, purpose.

Have a class discussion on the pros and cons -

Is participating as important as winning?
Why were they started?

Refining (students’ questions, ideas and teacher’s intentions):

Topics arising from discussion for children to research in groups -

    ancient games
    first modern Olympics
    marathon
    women in the Olympics
    flag
    flame
    oath

Research is presented to the class.

Extending:

During the Olympic Games each child will be given a country that is participating in the Olympics and research that country. ( A list of questions are to be answered)

Various events to be watched live on television.

Children will be given an activity book that will cover the learning areas. (see Planning Guide).

Discussions of various aspects of the games will take place eg costs, rules, racist problems, women's involvement, development of modern technology, muscles used by athletes, psychology, diet, sportsmanship, sporting injuries, drugs in sport, how information is transferred to other parts of the world.

Children will devise pictograms, olympic wrinkles and moving pictures. Design a logo, mascot and pictograms for the next Olympics. Design a future costume for a particular sport and a bike for the future.

Miming activities.

Reflecting on what we have learnt

Discuss any issures that have risen during the games.

Did the games achieve what they set out to achieve?

Has it been worth it for paticipants?

What improvements can you see that could be made for future games?

Teaching Resources:

The Olympic Education Kit (Coca Cola)

Newspapers in Education (The Examiner, Launceston)

Olympic Kit (The Courier-Mail The Mercury, The Advertiser)

The Olympic Games (Rigby Heinemann Blackline Masters)