Using the Olympics as a teaching opportunity
As a homeschooling Mom, I’m always on the lookout for educational opportunities. The Olympics provides a lot of them. From teaching your kids about other countries (including geography, popular activities, etc.) to educating them on current events (the Olympics, Tibet, etc.), you could spend every day from now until the end of the Olympics and beyond studying subjects related to the summer Olympics.
Here are a few links to help you out if you need ideas:
Article with really good recommendations on using unusual sports to study other cultures
Lots of summer Olympics activities
Brief, kid-friendly summary of summer Olympic sports
Scholastic Olympic research tools
Feel free to share your favorite learning ideas or educational websites related to the Olympics in the comment section.
It is funny that a home school Mom goes looking for material to teach their kids about the Olympics and finds a home school blog doing the same
Thanks!
That is funny! Glad you stopped by. Thanks for leaving me a comment so that I know other homeschoolers are making use of the information.