Aug 17 2008
Olympics and Geography
Carol Fertig recently posted Ideas for Studying the Olympics. She’s given some great links that I encourage teachers and parents to explore.
Personally I love the Olympics as a way to learn more about geography. Here are a few ideas:
- Plot the route of the torch on a map.
- Locate each country participating in the Olympics on the map and learn more about these countries.
- The New York Times has an Interactive Map of the medal or use Community Walk or Google Maps to create your own Map the medal count of each country
There are also some great Google Tools for learning about geography while watching the Olympics.
National Geographic has a site dedicated to the 2008 Summer Olympic Games
Here’s a great challenge: read a book about each country in the Olympics or by an author from that country by the end of the year.
Don’t miss this great opportunity to learn more about our world while enjoying the summer Olympics.
