Great Ideas for Learning About World Cup

World Cup of Soccer Lessons: Teachable Moments
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The 2014 World Cup begins on June 12th in Brazil and is the biggest single-event sporting competition in the world and the coverage is bound to be huge. There are 32 teams from around the world participating the event. The World Cup offers a great way to integrate lessons that involve a variety of subjects from art to zoology. With the results being available daily the lessons can be updated. Since some places may not have coverage of the event I highly recommend you use the Internet to keep current.

I find that even those students who are not interested in soccer enjoy getting involved in using the variety of information interesting for math practice such as percentages, graphing, and even probabilities. They also like to make a book of the animals that represent those countries in the form of an animal atlas and design flags for their teams. The lessons can easily meet Common Core standards in math and literacy.

Official site
http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/

This site has updates on the World Cup
http://www.espnfc.com/league/_/id/fifa.world/fifa-world-cup?cc=5901

Soccer lessons from Great Britain.
A wide variety including songs.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/themes/worldcup/

Compare the stadiums
A fun site that has pictures and data on the places in Brazil where the games will be played. Students can compare rainfall, temperature and even the capacity of each stadium to write an essay on why there choice is best or a compare and contrast essay or make a graphs of the information.
http://tinyurl.com/of8pkez
A free app
This site has flags of the nations.
http://eflclassroom.com/store/products/world-cup-resources/

Huge link sites
http://www.2learn.ca/specialedition/fifa/fifa.aspx

AND
http://tinyurl.com/246hfnt

Printables for younger students
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/world-cup-for-kids

A photo essay on the history of the World Cup
http://tinyurl.com/q8q6td6
A unique math game based on soccer
http://www.sharemylesson.com/teaching-resource/Soccer-Coordinates-Math-Game-50012204/

ESL Lessons
Includes tests and listening skill practice.
http://www.esolcourses.com/topics/football.html

More ESL Lessons
News English Lessons
ESL / EFL Lesson Activity on Brazil World Cup
http://tinyurl.com/mml5eka

The New York Times has a blog about the event
The site has both synonyms and quizzes.
http://tinyurl.com/nnoq2lr
Probability lessons for older students
http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2014/05/28/1863382/lessons-in-supply-and-demand-goldman-on-the-world-cup/

 

Chinese Olympics lessons and resources

Chinese Olympics Resources

by Alan Haskvitz

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The free lessons, links, and resources have been moved here to save space.

I have them posted here:

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/chinese_olympics.html

also use the search engine to find more specific free lessons.

Starting August 8^th, the Chinese Olympics can provide a teachable moment for students at the start of more traditional school years. It is over on August 24^th .

It is very difficult to find good educational resources so keep this site bookmarked.

 

Halloween Lesson Plans

 By Alan Haskvitz

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Halloween offers a great teachable moment that can be related to a variety of integrated lessons. There are a diverse array of units, lessons, printables, and craft sites.

One of world’s largest list of lesson plans links

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/alansplans.html

Links to all types of holiday related resources

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/pumpkins.html

Teachable moment article

A guide to creating the best units.

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/teachable-moments.html

Really good link with lots of lots of interesting ideas.

http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/SubPlans/hween.htm

Uneven quality, but a good variety of Halloween related lessons

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/Halloween.htm

Anoka, Minnesota

The Halloween capital of America

Take a look at how a city built its claim.

http://www.anokahalloween.com/history.html

Halloween Activities and Lessons

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/seasonal/halloween/index.htm

Halloween printables and primary lessons

http://atozteacherstuff.com/Themes/Halloween/

Large list from Donn

http://holidays.mrdonn.org/halloween.html

General link sites

http://712educators.about.com/cs/halloween/a/halloweenless.htm

http://www.fvsd.ab.ca/stm/halloween_sites.htm

History of Halloween

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/TLRESOURCES/units/Byrnes-celebrations/halloween.html

Pumpkin lessons

http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson/lesson028.shtml

Canadian lesson plans

http://canadaonline.about.com/od/halloweenlessonplans/Halloween_Lesson_Plans.htm

Halloween Safety lessons

http://teachertipstraining.suite101.com/article.cfm/halloween_lesson_plan

Physical Education Plans for Halloween

A good variety. Other holidays physical education plans also listed.

http://www.pecentral.org/lessonideas/searchresults.asp?category=59

Halloween flash cards

http://www.eslgo.com/resources/lesson_plans/halloween.html

Art lesson: Draw a Monster

http://kweto.com/skripts/halloween.html

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Ultimate Physical Education Site

By Alan Haskvitz

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This site has a vast number of quality lessons and free resources on all aspects of teaching physical fitness.

http://www.reacheverychild.com/feature/phys_ed.html

Including

Incentives from professional organizations can motivate students. To this end, Reach Every Child has compiled a list of most professional sports teams.And find a listing of the larger sports organizations.In addition, explore resources in the following categories and adaptive education:·        General resources ·        Lesson plans ·        PE link sites ·        Physical Education and Health Grants ·        Physical Education and Sports Medicine Organizations ·        Sports Medicine