Organising a vegetable olympics

Topics Reception/Year 1
This unit is part of Famous for more than Five Minutes - NEW LOOK Sportspeople

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Objectives

History

Be taught about events beyond living memory that are significant nationally or globally.

English

Participate in discussions, presentations, performances, role play, improvisations and debates.

Lesson Planning

Examine the traditional Olympic events; Organise an alternative Olympics; Plan Olympic events and present ideas to the class.

Teaching Outcomes
To learn about the origins of the Olympics.
To plan events for an Olympics and present their ideas to the class.

Children will:

Learn about the origins of the Olympics.
Plan events for a Vegetable Olympics and present their ideas to the class.

Planning

Provided Resources

Vegetable events

Unit Resources

You Will Need

A variety of vegetables

Weblinks

The ancient Olympic games from bbc.co.uk
How the paralympics began from paralympic.org
Olympic events from olympic.org
The sports that make up the Paralympic games from london2012.com