Transcript Presentation title - 2006 Commonwealth Games

Bringing it all together
Melbourne 2006 Commonwealth
Games Education Program
Teacher Professional Development
Program
Structure of today’s session
1. Welcome and introduction
2. KWL(SW) – Graphic Organiser Activity
3. Trivia Quiz
4. Bringing it all together – the Commonwealth Games Education
Program Curriculum materials, programs and resources overview
5. Interactive Activity 1 – The Quest
Tea Break
6. What is already happening in schools?
7. Interactive Activity 2 – The Bus Stops Here!
8. Actions – So what?!
9. Summing up and evaluation
Purpose of today’s session
1. Excite, engage and stimulate you and your school to become
involved in the M2006 Commonwealth Games Education Program.
2. Provide you with an overview of the M2006 Commonwealth
Games Education Program and a useful resource package to take
back to school, so you can introduce it to your school and get your
classes involved.
3. Outline the key elements of the M2006 Commonwealth
Games Education Program so that you understand the focus of each
resource.
4. Demonstrate aspects of these classroom resources by
highlighting teaching and learning activities and show you examples
of units that link to the Victorian Essential Learning Standards.
Contents of your resource kit
Bringing it all together handbook
Session outline
Starting Blocks CD-ROM
Let the Games Begin! Middle Years Resources CD-ROM
United through the Games-Integrated Units CD-ROM
Commonwealth of Nations A3 Map
flyers
KWL (SW) Activity sheet
The Quest Activity sheet
Evaluation form (+ then M2006 Commonwealth Games badge)
KWL (SW) Graphic Organiser
Activity
Trivia Quiz
1.
2.
3.
What date will the 2006 Commonwealth Games start?
How many nations will compete?
Which country leads the total medal tally for all Commonwealth
Games?
4. What is the name of the mascot for the Games?
5. Name one country that has recently been expelled from the
Commonwealth that will not be competing in the Games –
6. Name two Commonwealth countries that were not originally
British colonies.
7. Who is united by the games?
8. Name two Classroom Resources developed for the
Commonwealth Games Education Program.
9. How often are the Commonwealth Games held?
10. What did the Commonwealth Games used to be called?
Trivia Quiz: Answers
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
March 15, 2006
71 nations
Australia
Karak (because that’s the sound South-eastern Red-tailed Black
Cockatoos make!)
Zimbabwe
Mozambique and Cameroon
(http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Templates/system/YearbookHomePage.asp?NodeID=
39544 )
7.
8.
We are!
Starting Blocks / Post-compulsory Resources / Let the Games
Begin! / United through the Games / CommPASS
9. Every 4 years
10. The British Empire Games / then the British Empire and
Commonwealth Games / then the British Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games
Education Program, Classroom
Resources and Programs
In the beginning…
How can we involve schools and
young people in the Games
experience? What are the
opportunities?
How can we make the Games
relevant to schools and
students?
How can schools contribute?
What can we achieve through
involving schools?
Schools – who are involved?
Government, Catholic and Independent school sectors
All age groups
School principals, teachers and parents
Initial focus on Victoria
Learning, Linking, Participating
LEARNING
• About the
Commonwealth,
its countries and
cultures
LINKING
• Friendships
between
schools
• About athletes
• One-one
connections
• About
Melbourne 2006
• Supporting
visiting team
PARTICIPATING
• In the Games
experience
• In sport and
physical activity
• As part of the
community
Classroom Resources Themes
Commonwealth of Nations
Environmentally sustainable behaviours
Participation in activity and sport
Indigenous culture
Community links and activities
Melbourne as a host city
Ethics in sport
Getting Schools Involved
An information kit containing
details about all
opportunities and programs
for school involvement in the
Commonwealth Games.
(February 2005)
Classroom Resources: Starting
Blocks
An Introduction to the
Melbourne 2006
Commonwealth Games
Prep to Year 12
Classroom Resources: Postcompulsory Resources
for VCE/VET in Schools/VCAL
Classroom Resources: Let the
Games Begin!
Middle Years Resources:
Hosting a major event
Melbourne 2006 Games
Ethics and sport
Linked to the Victorian Essential
Learning Standards
Classroom Resources: United
through the Games
Integrated Units
 Prep to Year 10 Resources
Celebration (P-2)
Environment (3-4)
Identity (5-6)
Change (7-8)
Participation (9-10)
Linked to Victorian Essential Learning
Standards
Classroom Resources:
CommPASS
Games Passport Program for
Years 1 to 6
 Themes include:
Commonwealth of Nations
Healthy active lifestyles
Environmentally sustainable
behaviours
Classroom Resources:
CommPASS
Teacher’s Manual
School2School
Linking schools in Victoria/Australia
with schools in the Commonwealth
Adopting a Second Team and
supporting them
Registrations close end Term 4
Global Classroom Projects
Get involved in a Global
Classroom Project
2 projects have a
Commonwealth Games
focus:
The Commonwealth at Play
Karak in Action
www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/gc
Commonwealth Games
Supplement and Poster Series
The AGE Sunday (poster) and
Monday (supplement)
• World Map, Education
Games,Technology in
Sport,Environment, Cultural Diversity,
Post-Games: the finest moments.
Education Program Posters
• World Map, Water Poster, Karak Poster
CG Reps and GameZINE
Project team of students
Commonwealth Games contacts in the
school
email GameZINEs
Initiate activities
Leadership opportunities
Official acknowledgment
CGTV
Television skills and media
training to up to 10 teams
across Victoria
Film community and school
involvement in lead up to
Games
Broadcast on Schools TV in
2006
Art4Athletes Program
Schools prepared artwork as gift for
athletes
All schools were invited to participate
A thank you post card will be sent
back to students
(registrations have closed)
Other Involvement – Queen’s Baton
Relay
www.melbourne2006.com.au/?s=qbr
www.melbourne2006.com.au/education
Interactive Activity 1
The Quest
Tea Break
What is happening in schools
already?
CGTV@Wycheproof P-12
small rural school of 170 students
making a DVD for the Schools’ Television Network
during the Commonwealth Games
Part of the Shire of Buloke with Kenya as their ‘sister’
nation and adopted second team.
Submitted works in the Art4Athletes program.
CG Reps and S2S @ St Mary’s
Primary School, Ascot Vale
school of 350+
registered for School2School and
with St Mary’s in Canada
Year 5/6 CG Reps Team
Art4Athletes program
Commonwealth Games Sports in School Athletics
Carnival, writing bulletins
Making contact with the local council
Learning about the history
GCP and Commonwealth at
Play@Ararat Community College
The project is suitable for students from Years 4-10:
Digital photography
Interviewing local heroes
Responding to sporting issues by
email
Kahootz 3 D
Design, construction, exchange of batons
Reporting on local celebrations
www.araratcc.vic.edu.au/users/web/commonwealth/index.htm
Ghana arrives at
St Thomas Primary, Sale
The Year 3/4 class:
visited by Australian Opals Olympic
Basketball team member Jessica Bibby
studied Ghanaians clothing
accessed online sites
research via the Internet, books,
encyclopaedias
adopted Ghana as their second team
Interactive Activity 2
The Bus Stops Here!
Actions: So What
KWL (SW) Activity 2
Summing it all up….
1. All the resources discussed today are available on the
M2006 Commonwealth Games Education website:
www.melbourne2006.com.au/education
2. Activity ideas covered in this PD session are available on
the dk2 website:
www.dk2.com.au/commgames.htm
3. Web links to other Commonwealth Games resources are
on the back page of your handbook.
4. Evaluation form
Thanks for coming….
www.melbourne2006.com.au/education