This worksheet, ‘Olympics KWHL Chart’ prompts students to explore what they know about the Olympics, what they want to learn, how they think they could learn about new ideas and what they have learnt following the learning tasks. This is a great, clearly formatted resource to encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning …More
This worksheet, ‘Olympics Would You Rather’ is a great resource to prompt interesting discussion topics. The ‘would you rather?’ prompts can be used as a whole class, individually or in pairs, and encourage students to logically argue their opinion and express ideas.
This ‘Player of the Match Certificate (boy)’ is an award that can be reproduced for classroom use. It is formatted as either one full page award or two half page awards for printing convenience and can be laminated and distributed to students.
This ‘Player of the Match Certificate (girl)’ is an award that can be reproduced for classroom use. It is formatted as either one full page award or two half page awards for printing convenience and can be laminated and distributed to students.
Possum Poles’ is an engaging learning activity that shows how four possums climbed slippery poles at the Animal Olympics. Students need to use their knowledge of patterns and graphs to compare the progress of the possums. An answer sheet is provided and includes accompanying teaching notes with suggestions for supporting learning and further exploration.
This worksheet, ‘Profile of a Soccer Player’ is a simple yet effective worksheet that provides students with a template to organise information about a soccer star. Use this resource during international sporting competitions or to encourage engagement and interest in sport. It is also an exercise that requires students to select only the most relevant …More
This worksheet, ‘Profile of an Athlete’ is a simple yet effective worksheet that provides students with a template to organise information about an athlete. In using this resource, students will become more involved in their team and gain more interest in the games. It is also an exercise that requires students to select only the …More
This worksheet, ‘Profile of an Olympian’ is a simple yet effective worksheet that provides students with a template to organise information about an Olympian. Using this resource students will become more involved in their team and gain interest in the Games. It is also an exercise that requires students to select only the most relevant …More
This worksheet, ‘Rugby Sevens Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Olympic Games sport, rugby sevens. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the rules and scoring of the sport, the history of the sport and past gold medal winners. It allows students …More
This content area reading activity, ‘Running the Mile’ is a maths based reading comprehension exercise encouraging students to use details to visualise, or create pictures of, what they are reading.
In this learning activity, ‘Shoot the Hoop’, students play a lively basketball-inspired board game that helps them think about number relationships. The board is included with the activity sheet. The accompanying teaching notes provide background information.
This worksheet, ‘Shooting Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Olympic Games sport, shooting. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the rules and scoring of the sport, the history of the sport and past gold medal winners. It allows students to demonstrate …More
This history article, ‘Six Reasons to Thank the Ancient Greeks’ features the six great Greeks gifts that we still have today. It provides factual information about democracy, philosophy, mathematics, the Olympics, the alphabet and storytelling, and is aimed at broadening students’ cultural and historical awareness.
This editing and revising learning activity, ‘Soccer’ encourages students to recognise capitalisation and spelling errors, and understand sentence structure. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This set of ‘Soccer Shirt Cards’ is a simple yet effective way to incorporate the FIFA World Cup into classroom activities. They can be used in maths activities in ordering numbers, creating patterns or mathematical games. This resource is form fillable to allow numbers to be entered and then printed. Alternatively, the resource can be …More
This worksheet, ‘Soccer Uniform’ is a great resource that encourages students to describe the purpose of a soccer player’s uniform. The resource then asks students to illustrate and label a design of their own uniform that meets the needs of a soccer player.
This analysing text worksheet ‘State Challenge Olympics Coming Soon?’ supports students to use various strategies to understand opposing letters to the editor about hosting these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look …More
This article, ‘Table Tennis’ describes the history of table tennis and explains its rules. It provides opportunities for students to practise vocabulary and comprehension skills. Answer sheet provided with file download.
This worksheet, ‘Table Tennis Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Olympic Games sport, table tennis. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the rules and scoring of the sport, the history of the sport and past gold medal winners. It allows students …More
This worksheet, ‘Tallying Olympics Host Countries’ is a fantastic resource to link mathematics with the Olympics. Students are provided with a chart to record the past host countries and on how many occasions they have held the Games. Students are then asked to interpret the results of their research. This activity can be completed as …More
In the learning activity, ‘The Best Throw’ students learn about and discuss the use of technology in sports. They use graphs and tables to evaluate the impact of change on the javelin event, and form opinions about the impact of technology on other sports. This activity includes comprehensive teaching notes to be read before beginning …More
This informational text, ‘The Brazilian Flag’ is a great resource that outlines the meaning behind the design of the Brazilian flag. It outlines the history and significance of the green, yellow, blue globe with the stars and the phrase “Ordem e Progresso”.
This informational text, ‘The Geography of Brazil’ features factual information about Brazilian geography. It is aimed at broadening students’ geographical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key concepts with engaging images.
This article, ‘The Green and Gold’ provides students with factual information about Australia’s national flower, the golden wattle. It describes the history of the golden wattle as Australia’s national emblem and explains how the colours of the golden wattle have come to represent our country through our national sporting colours. This is a great resource …More
This informational text, ‘The History of Brazil’ features factual information about Brazilian history. It is aimed at broadening students’ historical awareness of the country in providing a summary of key events with engaging images.
This worksheet, ‘The Olympic Mascot Story’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Olympic Games’ mascot. The resource provides students with a storyboard format to sequence the discovery of the mascot character. It also provides a platform to begin discussions about the qualities of mascots and why each Olympic Games has different …More
This reading comprehension activity, ‘The Olympics’ asks students to answer questions about the Olympic Games. It is aimed at increasing students’ awareness of semantics and encourages students to recall information, think about word meaning and form opinions.
This analysing text worksheet ‘The Paralympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about the history of these games. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text and to look critically at …More
This Readers Theatre activity, ‘The Story of Basketball’ encourages students to develop an understanding of structural patterns or organisation in informational texts. It also builds reading fluency. This activity includes a script for 5 readers.
This worksheet, ‘The Triathlon’ is a visual exercise which require students to illustrate the sequence of a triathlon event. This is an ideal resource to introduce a very interesting Olympic sport to younger years. It can be used to prompt discussion in correlation with a multimedia clip showing a triathlon, or following individual or group …More
This analysing text worksheet ‘The United States’ Greatest Athlete’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about Jim Thorpe. It is aimed at encouraging students to deconstruct the text in order to gain a deeper understanding of its purpose, to recall specific details from the text, to look critically at words …More
This worksheet, ‘Timeline of Olympic Firsts’ provides a vertical timeline with space for students to explore five interesting dates about the history of the Olympic Games. The timeline spans the period from 1896 to 2016 and includes key dates relating to the history of the Olympics. This resource allows students to demonstrate their knowledge of …More
This template, ‘Tracking the Results’ is a fantastic resource that can be used as a whole class or individually to track the progress of the winners of swimming events in the Olympics. Students are provided with a table in which they are required to enter the winners of the men’s and women’s 200m races. Students …More
This worksheet, ‘Tracking Your Olympic Team’ is a fantastic resource to develop an understanding about the growth of the Olympic team of a particular country. Students are asked to use tallies or other methods of recording data to measure the size of the Olympic team in each year of the Games since 1924. Using this …More
This worksheet, ‘Triathlon Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Olympic sport, the triathlon. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the history of that sport, the nature of the sport in today’s Olympics and past gold medal winners. It allows students to …More
This all about me worksheet, ‘We All Play Sports’ supports students to think about then record the sports they play in their family. It supports an understanding of getting along and staying healthy.
This worksheet, ‘Weightlifting Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Olympic Games sport, weightlifting. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the rules and scoring of the sport, the history of the sport and past gold medal winners. It allows students to demonstrate …More
This worksheet, ‘Wrestling Profile’ provides a simple graphic for students to explore and organise key information relating to the Olympic Games sport, wrestling. The resource asks students to explain what equipment is needed, the rules and scoring of the sport, the history of the sport and past gold medal winners. It allows students to demonstrate …More
This history article, ‘Zola Budd’ features the South African long-distance runner who broke the women’s 5000m world record at just 17, while running in bare feet. It provides factual information about Zola Budd and the international ban imposed on South African athletes during apartheid, along with a glossary of unfamiliar words and terms from the …More
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