----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Silverberg - barisil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Lesson plan on the Olympics Dear Colleagues: I am putting together a lesson, adaptable to various levels about the Olympic Games. Please add any questions, activities etc that you have prepared, especially for weak Jr high pupils. A Lesson about the Olympics Beijing Olympic Games 2008 The following site has school-oriented clips and articles. http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/collection.jsp?id=351 From this site, I chose one item about Phelps http://www2.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=3750079 Intro/ brainstorm: Who watched the Olympic games this summer? Where were they held? Name one Olympic sport: Name one Medal winner: Groups scan articles from this site and and report to the class; so far, I see articles written as the games were beginning. Does anyone have more updated material? 1 Olympic Greats: Who were the stars of the games? What countries did they represent? What did they win? 2 Who were the Israeli athletes, how well did they perform? 3 and other groups : each group is given one of the student – written articles; finds specific info and reports to the class. Eg: Who is Jim Phelps? How many medals did he win? How many records did he bread? What does he eat everyd day? How much money has he made ?? and so on. Barry Silverberg ----------------------------------------------- ** Etni homepage - http://www.etni.org or - http://www.etni.org.il ** ** for help - ask@xxxxxxxx ** ** to post to this list - etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** -----------------------------------------------