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 analysing text worksheet ‘The Special Olympics’ supports students to use various strategies to understand a narrative text about 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 make judgements about and draw conclusions …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, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot Story’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot(s). The resource provides students with a storyboard format to sequence the discovery of the mascot character(s). It also provides a platform to begin discussions about the qualities of mascots and why each Winter Olympic …More
This worksheet, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot, Hare’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot, Hare. The Sochi Winter Olympics were the first Games to hold a national competition to design their mascots and each mascot has a wonderful background story as to why they were selected for Sochi …More
This worksheet, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot, Leopard’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot, Leopard. The Sochi Winter Olympics were the first Games to hold a national competition to design their mascots and each mascot has a wonderful background story as to why they were selected for Sochi …More
This worksheet, ‘The Winter Olympic Mascot, Polar Bear’ is a great resource that explores the story behind the Winter Olympic Games’ mascot, Polar Bear. The Sochi Winter Olympics were the first Games to hold a national competition to design their mascots and each mascot has a wonderful background story as to why they were selected …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 1900 to 1994 and includes key dates relating to the history of the Winter Olympics. This resource allows students to demonstrate their knowledge …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 Winter Olympic team of a particular country. Students are asked to use tallies or other methods of recording data to measure the size of the Winter Olympic team in each year of the Games since 1924. …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, ‘Winter Olympic Events’ allows students to graphically organise their research about three events. This simple resource requires the collection of relevant information including the number of competitors in the event, a description that explains what the event involves and any interesting facts about that specific event. Students may not realise that although there …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympic Gold Medallists’ asks students to research the names of three gold medallists and then specify which event they won, which country they come from and the year and city of the games in which they won their gold medal. This is a simple resource that allows students to understand what information …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympic Medallists’ asks students to research the names of four Winter Olympic medallists and then specify which event they won, which country they came from and the year and city of the games in which they won their medal. This is a simple resource that allows students to understand what information is …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympic Sport Profile’ is a great resource that provides students with a table to organise their research on four Winter Olympic sports. Students are required to select the most relevant information to create a profile that includes the rules, gameplay, equipment and venue of each sport.
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympic Sports and Medallists’ is an upside-down tree diagram used to organise the flow of ideas into a top down format. Students can use this graphical scaffold to break down types of Winter Olympic sports, a basic description of the sport and past gold medallists. The hierarchy chart is a great resource …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympic Sports List’ provides a blank diagram where the trunk represents the central concept of Winter Olympic Sports and the branches can be used to brainstorm various types. This is a great way to introduce the various sports that are currently included in the Winter Olympic Games or as an informal method …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympic Uniform’ is a great resource that encourages students to use adjectives to describe the purpose of a casual Winter Olympic uniform. The resource then asks students to illustrate and label a design of their own uniform that meets the needs of a Winter Olympian.
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Acrostic Poem’ is a fabulous quick activity to brainstorm facts about the current and past Winter Olympics. It is a fun activity that can be used without preparation and across all age groups and abilities. Students are required to use the letters from the words Winter Olympics to list facts that …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Alphabet’ provides an alphabet grid that students can use to develop their vocabulary and brainstorm different ideas about the Winter Olympics. This is a fun and simple resource that can be used effectively before, during or after an activity and across ability levels. It can also be utilised during individual, pair …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Crossword’ provides students with the opportunity to use skills involving vocabulary, reasoning and spelling to find the correct Winter Olympics words for the puzzle. It encourages students to identify and understand the terms being used and to build on their vocabulary of Winter Olympics terminology. An answer sheet is also provided.
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Figure Match-up’ is a fantastic activity when exploring interesting Winter Olympics facts and the magnitude of numbers. Students must match, either by cutting out or drawing links, between the correct figure and fact. This resource aids students to recognise the similarities and differences between different figures. An answer sheet is also …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Host Cities’ asks students to research the names of past host cities of the Winter Olympics and then specify which country the city is in and what year the Games were held there. This is a simple resource that allows students to understand what information is relevant when researching and how …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics KWHL Chart’ prompts students to explore what they know about the Winter 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 …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Medal Count’ is a fantastic resource that encourages students to become involved in the progress of four countries competing in the Winter Olympics. Students are asked to use tallies or other methods of recording data to track the gold, silver, bronze and total medal count of each country. Using this table …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Schedule’ introduces students to the format of a schedule. It provides a platform for discussion about the purpose and requirements of a schedule and encourages students to become more interested in the events of the Winter Olympic Games. Students are asked to shade in the days that the sport is held …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics True or False’ is a thought provoking worksheet that requires students to asses the truth of various Winter Olympics facts. Many students may presume the answers quickly and realise their assumptions were not correct which can lead to interesting discussions and further research into the Winter Olympics. An answer sheet is …More
This worksheet, ‘Winter Olympics Word Search’ gives students the opportunity to improve spelling of Winter Olympics words. Students must scrutinise the spelling of each word on their list which ensures new vocabulary is committed to memory with the correct spelling.
This worksheet, ‘Winter 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 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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