Learning About the Olympics: An Integrated Curriculum and Multi-Class Celebration
Inspired by the Olympic Games of 2022, teachers of the Vail Literacy Community built a curriculum focused on different world cultures/countries that participate in the games to celebrate individual and team abilities, teamwork, and sportsmanship. This study of the Olympics was used to expand student...
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Worlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and Literatures
2022-08-01
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| description | Inspired by the Olympic Games of 2022, teachers of the Vail Literacy Community built a curriculum focused on different world cultures/countries that participate in the games to celebrate individual and team abilities, teamwork, and sportsmanship. This study of the Olympics was used to expand students' perspectives of the world, their understanding of themselves and their abilities, their respect for those who are different from them, and their realization of common human experiences, desires, and emotions that they share with others in the world. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a54b22f538ff43549d21e1cc7982980a2022-12-22T04:42:17ZengWorlds of Words: Center of Global Literacies and LiteraturesWOW Stories2577-05512022-08-01X34252Learning About the Olympics: An Integrated Curriculum and Multi-Class CelebrationCassandra Sutherland0Lacey Elisea1Creation School, Vail, ArizonaCreation School, Vail, ArizonaInspired by the Olympic Games of 2022, teachers of the Vail Literacy Community built a curriculum focused on different world cultures/countries that participate in the games to celebrate individual and team abilities, teamwork, and sportsmanship. This study of the Olympics was used to expand students' perspectives of the world, their understanding of themselves and their abilities, their respect for those who are different from them, and their realization of common human experiences, desires, and emotions that they share with others in the world. https://wowlit.org/on-line-publications/stories/volume-x-issue-3-fall-2022/8/global children's literatureolympicsintegrated curriculumeducationteaching |
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