If you've been watching the Olympic Games and wondering how you might incorporate them in your classroom, here are couple of resources to investigate.
The Google Earth Blog has published a short list of Google Earth tours based on the Olympic Games in London. The list includes a fly-over tour of the marathon route, Street View imagery of the Olympic Park, and 3D models of some of the Olympic venues.
Google's London 2012 page includes a Google Map showing the distribution of Olympic medals. Visitors can see the distribution of medals according to medal color and country.
Applications for Education
When I saw the Google Map of medal distribution I immediately thought of a simple geography lesson. Students can browse for medal winners in other countries then research those countries. To take it a step further, you might ask students to investigate why a country produces exceptional athletes in a given sport. For example, you might challenge students to find out why South Korea excels at archery.
Larry Ferlazzo has a large list of Olympic resources going, I encourage you to check out Larry's list.
Showing posts with label 2012 Olympics. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2012 Olympics. Show all posts
Sunday, July 29, 2012
Friday, May 18, 2012
Follow the Olympic Torch Relay
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Image via Sureloc.com |
The BBC also has a good map with pictures of all of the locations that Olympic Torch will pass through over the next seventy days. The BBC also has a nice gallery of past Olympic Torch designs accompanied by a bit of information each design, the host nation, and or that year's Olympic games.
For more resources about the 2012 Summer Olympic Games I recommend seeing the list that Larry Ferlazzo has started.
And if you're wondering about the picture above, it's of my long-time friend Butch Johnson who has competed in five Olympic Games and is currently in the running to make a sixth consecutive US Olympic Archery Team at the age of 56.
Friday, November 4, 2011
Olympic Challenge 2012 - Olympics-inspired Lessons
Through a Tweet from Jen Deyenberg earlier this week I learned about a neat collaborative project started by Chris Leach. Olympic Challenge 2012 is a series of academic challenges based upon Summer Olympic events. Right now there are twenty-two challenges proposed. Teachers can sign-up to have their students "challenge" other classrooms. Or you could simply have your students try the challenges without challenging another classroom. Here's one of the fun challenges in the list; Tennis: draw faces on tennis balls and then animate them to tell a story.
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