Activities - 2024 Paris Olympic Games Literacy, Numeracy and Creative slideshow Lessons and Printable templates

Here it is! A whole day's worth of lesson content around the 2024 Paris Olympic Games! Or spread it out over a few days if you prefer - target level is Year 4 to 7.

This resource includes a Google Slide show and a PDF.

Here is what the students will learn:

• The places over the last 100+ years that have hosted the Olympics;
• The benefits and possible negative effects for a country hosting the games;
• The names of some of our New Zealand athletes that are representing NZ at these Olympic Games;
• The names of some of the Olympic Sports;
• What the Olympic Games were like 100 years ago in Paris;
• How to effectively solve, using addition, subtraction, multiplicatio or division, some Olympic animal word problems;
• To effectively locate information from a text;
• To write a made up story about your creative design ( or a poem if you prefer);
• How to plan and design (using pencil, paper and colours or a digital design programme such as Google Draw) an animal competing with pride at your own Olympic Games.

You will find slides and video clips about...

the Olympic Games opening ceremonies over the years, discussion questions, the Paris Olympics 100 years ago, exciting guess the letter athlete profile sheets (6 in total), draw tasks, a video clip about an athlete from the TV news on the 24th July 2024, AI generated picture prompts with AI generated shared writing models, Olympic text shared reading with comprehension questions and answers, shared class maths word problems and independent / paired practise maths problems related to the Writing prompts, and more.

Wow- amazing! You will want to use this resource!