The Olympic Games

By Ron Thomas and Shirley Sydenham

The Olympic Games offer a vehicle for student research and activities at all levels. This book assists teachers and home schoolers to guide and facilitate student inquiry around the focus of the Olympic games. A variety of individual or class activities are arranges in curriculum groupings, including english, math, science and technology, the arts and physical education.

• Language: English
• Publisher: kidcyber
• Release date: Feb 17, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463633250

Ron Thomas

Ronald G. Thomas, aka Ron Thomas, was born in the early part of 1975 in Maryland. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with two bachelor's degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics as well as a minor in GIS (Geographic In-formation Systems). When it comes to experience, there is no better teacher than life. Where there is life, there is hope.

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The Olympic Games

by

Ron Thomas

&

Shirley Sydenham

Copyright © 2020 by Shirley Sydenham and Ron Thomas

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LIST OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1 Launching: engaging, brainstorming, concept mapping activities

Chapter 2 Guided inquiry: evaluation rubrics

Chapter 3 English (speaking, listening, writing and reading) activities: A variety of writing genres, speaking and listening, debate, analysis, word meanings, analysis, game making, classification, glossary, and spelling

Chapter 4 Mathematics activities: tallying, math Olympics, Fermi questions, maps and plans, graphing data

Chapter 5 Science and technology activities : sustainability and a green Olympics, flotation, equestrian science, compare and contrast, technology, Paralympic games

Chapter 6 The Arts (music, visual arts, drama, music) activities: drama, pictograms, design, graphic storytelling, mascots, an Olympic rap, making medals and torch

Chapter 7 Social sciences (history, geography, study of society) activities: timelines, flags, Pierre De Coubertin, comparisons, geography, map work, fact files, history of Olympics, planning a virtual trip to Tokyo 2020

Chapter 8 Health and Physical education activities: nutrition, a mini-Olympics, new Olympic sports, Olympic obstacle course, torch relay, drugs in sport.

Introduction

This book contains cross-curricula activities for a study of the Olympic games for students

K – 6. Some relate to developing research skills, others are complementary to the study of the Olympic games 2020.

The activities are arranged under curriculum area headings and no grading of the activities is given. As teachers, you know best which activities will work with your students based on their experience, skills, and learning styles.

Many of the activities require students to undertake their own inquiry. The authors believe that from an early stage, students can be equipped with the abilities and skills to ask questions that will focus their inquiry, to gather and record information, and to identify and compare relevant information. Students can be shown that information can be gained from a variety of information sources. Once information sources are chosen students can be shown how to make notes and then use these notes to make a report. Their reports can then be presented to an audience in a variety of ways.

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