2018 Winter Olympics Lesson Ideas

Hello colleagues, The 2018 Winter Olympics will be held in PyeongChang, South Korea, beginning February 9 through February 25.

Here is a link to a great many lesson ideas on the Education Word website. Many of these lesson ideas look super interesting and include printables. The site includes lessons on:

  • using a Venn diagram to compare and contrast modern Olympic games with those of ancient Greece
  • creating biographies of famous Olympians
  • charting Olympic data
  • tracking the weather during the Games
  • mapping the location of previous Olympic games
  • calculating medal counts (and other "medal math" problems)
  • assigning students --or letting them choose-- an Olympic event to track and creating a poster to present to the class
  • and more

This is a timely topic that many learners would be interested in -- and the possibilities for focusing on geography, history, science and math are endless! Are you considering focusing a lesson on the Olympics? Let us know, and if you have found other excellent resources, please share them here.

Cheers, Susan Finn Miller

Moderator, Teaching & Learning CoP