Let the Games Begin!(The 2000 Olympic Games, in Sydney, Australia, offer rich and fun-filled teaching opportunities)

Instructor (1990) | September 1, 2000| | Copyright

The 2000 Olympic Games, in Sydney, Australia, offer rich and fun-filled teaching opportunities

Capture students' attention by beginning your unit the same way that the Olympic Games begin: with a flame. The 2000 Summer Games open on September 15. Light a candle and explain that earlier this year, on May 10, an official Olympic torch was lit in Olympia, Greece (where the first Olympic Games took place almost 2,800 years ago!) The torch is now on a journey around the continent of Australia on its way to the Olympic Stadium in Sydney. Along the way to the opening ...

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