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Beijing 2008 Olympic Games: teaching materials
Owner
Lorene Furmage
Collection
Educational Resources
 
Description
A collection of materials to support teachers in planning for the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games. Includes: Four AFSSSE inquiry-based units to support teaching about the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, economics/business, environment, geography and a historical and cultural unit; Lesson and Activity ideas from Letter Link for teachers from Australia Post; Beijing 2008 Educational kit from the Olympic Museum Lausanne with worksheets for students aged 8-16; Edna olympics theme page; OZ Projects Beijing 2008; Preschool Lesson Plan Printable Activities from first-school.ws; activities from abcteach; Lesson plans from Sites for Teachers; resources from TeacherVision; resources from One World Centre; Newsletter from Titan Education with teaching tools and interactive sites; Rob McTaggarts units of work on China on the Diigo site; Olympic Resource for Languages developed by MLTAV on the AOC site; Chinese language focus lesson plans from Asia Knowledge; the Learning federation has a page of content ideas suitable for the Olympic games; link to the Student Freeway Olympic Games search results; Wattle's web Olympic websites; The Maths behind the Olympic Games audio from John Barrow; MATH AND THE OLYMPICS: AN INQUIRY UNIT - Unit designed and taught by Denise Anthony and Cynthia Callard, Documentation prepared by Raffaella Borasi; worksheets in german about mascots and symbols; Indonesian activities from the AOC; Can a school record the Olympics to show in class? - a Q&A answer from the Australian Copyright Council; Voices of the Olympic Games - Follow Lenovo’s athlete bloggers on their journey in Beijing - Hear their voices; Sites lesson plans and teacher reference from Primary School English theme pages on Beijing 2008; Nigel Brown's document which has links to many Olympic sites and resources.
Keywords
Olympic games; Olympics; resources; inquiry based learning; teaching materials; Australia Post; Letter Link; Olympic Museum Lausanne; EdNA; edna; OZ Projects; ozprojects; first-school; crafts; abcteach; abc teach; sites4teachers; sites for teachers; Olympic world; Teacher Vision; TeacherVision; One World Centre; Titan Education; Diigo; MLTAV; LOTE; Olympic games and LOTE; Asia Knowledge; Ministry of Education New Zealand; The Learning Federation; TLF; Student Freeway; Wattle's web; The Maths behind the Olympic Games; John Barrow; MATH AND THE OLYMPICS; AN INQUIRY UNIT; Denise Anthony; Cynthia Callard; Raffaella Borasi; german language worksheets; symbols; mascots; Indonesian; medals; oaths; copyright; video recording; Lenovo; athlete; bloggers; Hear their voices; Primary School English theme pages; Nigel Brown; Olympic resources
 
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Details
Resource Type
Planning for learning\Learning object
Professional Learning\Planning materials
Audience
Teachers
Language
en(English)
User Level
Birth - 4 Years, Upper Primary, Upper Secondary, Early Childhood, Middle School, Lower Primary, Lower Secondary, Teacher
Learning Area
Studies of Society and Environment - SOSE
Other Learning Areas
English, Languages other than English - LOTE, Mathematics, Science, Studies of Society and Environment - SOSE
Full Topic
Sports and recreations\Olympic games
Sports and recreations\Olympic games\Summer
Countries\Asia\China
Using language\Languages other than English\Chinese
Using language\Languages other than English\Indonesian
Information and communication technologies (ICT)\ICT and the curriculum\Communication and collaborative tools (eg email, blogs, wikis, and moodle)
Life and school skills\Skills for learning\Research topics and themes
Date Created
2008-08-07 10:27:00
Date Modified
2011-01-21 04:25:16
Metadata staff notes
Added AFSSSE; Letter Link, Olympic Museum; edna; OZ Projects; First-School.ws; abcteach; Sites for teachers; TeacherVision One World Centre ; Titan Education; Diigo and Olympic Resource for Languages and Chinese language focus all suggested by Janine Davison 7.8.08 ljf. Added the TLF, Student Freeway, Wattle's web page, Potato Olympics, The Maths behind the Olympic Games; Math unit; german worksheets, Indonesian activities; copyright notice; Lenovo's blog 14.8.08 ljf; added Primary School theme page, 19.8.08 ljf; added Nigel Brown's document, 20.8.08 ljf. Changed Teacher Vision URL, 30.9.08 ljf. Removed copyright ? as not available on the site, 20.4.09 ljf. Removed potato olympics 5.5.09 ljf.