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The Olympics: Common Core Lessons & Activities Carole Marsh

The Olympics Common Core Lessons and Activities Book allows you to immediately meet new Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, as well as Literacy and Writing in History/Social Studies. It is designed to supplement your Social Studies resources, adding new Common Core rigor, analysis, writing, inference, text-dependent, and more into your daily instruction.

How to Use the The Olympics- Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook:
Work through the lessons and activities as a class to teach your students higher-order thinking, analysis, and 21st century skills necessary to meet new Common Core expectations.
Allow students to work through the lessons independently to build and practice these new skills.
Include technology, collaboration, presentations, and discussion in the activities as you desire - you can decide how in-depth to go.
Watch your class develop new abilities to meet the rigor of Common Core State Standards, right before your eyes!

Tips:
Use some of the pages - or use them all - based on your grade, your students, your curriculum, and your needs.
Use these pages at their current size, or if you prefer them to be 8.5 X 11 , enlarge them 125% on your copy machine.
Use the correlations grid to easily see which Common Core standards are covered in each lesson.

The The Olympics- Common Core Lessons and Activitiesbook includes:
Reading for Information
Higher-Order Thinking
Writing Problems
Primary Source Analysis
Vocabulary
Graphic Organizers
Map Activities
& More!

Here is the Table of Contents for the The Olympics- Common Core Lessons and Activities book:
Ancient Olympia: Primary Source Analysis
Modern Olympic Games: Reading Informational Text
Ancient vs. Modern Games: Compare & Contrast GO1
The Olympic Oaths: Primary Source Analysis
Thoughts on Competition: Point of View
Symbols and Traditions: Reading Informational Text
International Olympic Committee: Reading Informational Text
Summer & Winter Olympics: Research, Writing, & Presentation
Olympic Champions: Graphic Organizer G
The Lost Olympic Games: Cause & Effect GO6
Women in the Olympics: Data Analysis
Conflicts Between Countries: Primary Source Analysis
Controversy & Tragedy: Graphical Analysis GO1
Hosting the Olympics: Writing
The Paralympic Games: Reading Informational Text G
In the Media: Comparison of Sources
A Century of Change: Comparison of Primary Sources
Events in Olympic History: Chronological Events GO12
Olympic Qualities: Vocabulary GO10
Common Core State Standards Correlations

G: Includes Graphic Organizer
GO: Graphic Organizer is also available 8 1/2 x 11 online.

(numbers above correspond to the graphic organizer numbers online)