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Who's Up for the Olympic Challenge?:Integrating the 5 Themes of Geography with Olympic Bids
High schoolers explore geographical themes. In this problem solving geography lesson, students view a PowerPoint presentation about the Vancouver/Whistler Olympic bid. High schoolers analyze Vancouver as an Olympic site looking at...
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The Legacy of the Olympics: Economic Burden or Boon?
Do the economic benefits of major sporting events such as the Olympics or the World Cup outweigh the expected costs? Using fundamental economic terms, discover the explicit and implicit costs and benefits for countries that host these...
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Windy City tries for 2016 Olympics
Students collect background information about costs of hosting Olympics, prepare presentation about Chicago's bid to host 2016 Summer Olympics, debate pros and cons of going to Chicago, and present findings to classmates.
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The Athens Olympics
Students explore the history of the Olympics. They read a story about London's bid to host the Olympic games. In groups, students produce an arena for the Olympics and create a creed for the competition. Students discuss and share...
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World Cities and the Olympics
Young scholars examine the various cities in which Olympics have been held. Using a map, they describe the reasons why those cities were chosen and choose their own city for the Olympics and state the reasons why. They examine...
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The Olympic Dream: East Asia
Students engage in research in order to establish a context for comprehending the historical event of the Olympic Games being held in China. They use the internet and other resources to find information.
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How to be the Host with the Most
Young scholars discover details about the Olympic bidding process. For this current events lesson, students research the listed Web sites that include information about London's bid for the 2012 Olympic Games.
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London Olympics 2012
Students examine sports vocabulary based on the Olympics. They take a quiz and create a quiz about the Games. They read about the Games and design sports that could be includes as new competitions. They write a bid for a city to be...
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Running Rings Around the Competition
students explore the debate behind Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Olympics from the perspectives of different groups involved. They then 'cast votes' as members of the International Olympic Committee as to which city should be chosen.
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Building Budgets
Students explore New York City's bid to host the 2012 Olympic Games. They estimate budget allocations for such a proposal while practicing the calculation of percentages.
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Why Here? Why Not There?
Students analyze a map and graph information on eleven countries. Using the characteristics of the countries, they determine if they should host the summer or winter Olympic games. After viewing a video, they locate the latitudes of...
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Newspaper Headlines and Opening Sentences
In this recognizing newspaper headlines and opening sentences worksheet, students match the seven headlines with their opening sentences and then predict the what, where, when, and who the articles are about. Students answer 42 questions.
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Breaking News English: British Food
In this British Food worksheet, students read the article, answer true and false questions, complete synonym matching, complete phrase matching, complete a gap fill, answer short answer questions, answer discussion questions, write, and...