Example 2

JS History S1

Topic Olympic Games

Number of Lessons 2 lessons (40 minutes per lesson)

Learning objectives

Know  the venue, sports events and culture of ancient Olympic Games

Understand  the aims of ancient Olympic Games

 the connection between ancient and modern Olympic Games

Do  find out the differences between ancient and modern Olympic

Games

Tools for differentiation/Instructional strategies

Tools for  Form A and B (Appendix 1)

differentiation
 Equalizer (Appendix 2)

Instructional strategies  Tiered Questions

The questions will be asked about the students’ daily life. Then questions
will be projected to students’ experience in their own country and to
international level Olympic Games.

 Exit Card

It is an assessment tool for monitoring students’ learning progress.

*You may view chapter 2 in the animated video for reference.

Learning and Teaching Materials

Video clips  Olympic flame lighting ceremony in Athens in 2008 (3:51)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDcO0MbjAyQ

 Beijing 2008 Olympic Highlights (5:31)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQqmelsJlhs

Pre-assessment  Worksheet (Appendix 3)

Classwork  Historical and interesting facts/worksheets (Appendix 4)

 Table of comparison between Ancient and Modern

Olympic Games (Appendix 5)

 Exit Card (Appendix 6)

Home assignment/  Worksheet (Appendix 7)

Extended learning
activities

Students’ work  Pre-assessment task (Appendix 8)

Exit Card

Puzzle game: Olympic rings

 Teaching Flow

Time Steps in the Learning and teaching activities Elements/strategies of

lesson Differentiated Instruction

- Conduct a survey to find out

students’ learning interests and
understand their knowledge of
the teaching topic.
- Distribute a worksheet with
Before Pre-assessment questions about school Sports
lesson Day and ask students to relate
the topic to modern Olympic
Games.
- Adjust the focus of the
teaching topic according to
pre-assessment result.
Use the results of Form A
and Form B to set the topic
that interests students most.
(Appendix 1)
Equalizer (Appendix 2)
Pre-assessment Task:
Worksheet (Appendix 3)
Students are required to
answer questions about
their experience/ impression
of school Sports Day and
indicate their areas of
interest about ancient and
modern Olympic Games.
(From foundational to
transformational)

Lesson 1

10 Review - Review what students learned Teaching pace will be

mins last lesson.
- City-states: independent
government with own army
- Different city-states had
different characteristics (e.g.
Athens and Sparta).
adjusted timely according
to the response from
students.
Refer to Historical and
interesting facts/worksheet
and Table of comparison
between Ancient and
Modern Olympic Games
(Appendix 4 and 5)

- There were many ancient

Greek gods and goddesses in
ancient Greece.

- There are ancient Olympic

 Games and modern Olympic
Games.

- Select two students to share

their pre-assessment result.

20 Introduction of - Teacher asks students, ‘What

mins the aims,
is Olympic Games
players, sports
events, culture nowadays?’ (sports games,
(opening competition)
ceremony)

- Share the results of the pre-

assessment and introduce the
Tiered questions:
sports items found by students.
1. from factual recall to
comparison

- Introduce the ancient Olympic 2. from ancient to modern

Games and emphasise the 3. from basic knowledge to
importance of religious value further readings
in ancient Olympic Games
(e.g. even Spartans stopped
war/there was truce during
ancient Olympic Games).

- Introduce ancient Olympic

Refer to Historical and
Games with religious rituals in interesting facts worksheet
ancient Greece. (Appendix 4)

- Who could join the ancient

Olympic Games? (Only male)
 Group Activity 1: Miming Game

- Invite students to demonstrate

the action of the sports items in
ancient Olympic Games. Other
students try to guess the name
of the items in ancient Olympic
Games.
The miming game caters for
learner diversity as some
students learn better by
- What types of sports games adopting kinesthetic
approach while some others
were played in ancient prefer group activities.
Olympic Games? (Long jump,
distance running, boxing,
wrestling, chariot racing,
throwing spears/javelins,
throwing discus.)

- Introduce all sports events in

ancient Olympic Games.
Teacher explains some events
related to the situation in
ancient Greece.

- Why there were wrestling

and chariot racing in the
5 mins Feedback time
ancient Olympic Games?
(The sports events are related
to wars.)

Lesson 2
 - Introduce the athletes who
were naked when they played
the games in ancient Olympic
Games.

- Why did the players not to

wear anything when they
played the games?/Why were
they naked? (Greek culture:
human body is beautiful. The
Refer to Historical and
Greeks liked to show their
10 interesting facts/worksheet
Teaching and bodies to others.) (Appendix 4)
mins students’
responses (From concrete to abstract)

- In our school Sports Day,

what prizes would be given to
the winners? (Gold, silver and
bronze medals)

- What prize did the athlete

win in the ancient Olympics
Games? (A crown of olive
leaves) Why? (religious event)

- May provoke the bright Tiered questions are asked

students to have further to provoke students to think
Questioning thinking by asking them about further and let them
and students’ understand the importance
10mins the Olympics Games during of religion in Greek
responses
two World Wars and in 1936. civilization.

15 Questioning - Historical facts about ancient Historical and interesting

mins skill and facts/Further readings sheet
Olympic Games
students’ (Appendix 4)
responses
Students who are interested
and want to know more
- Suspension of ancient Olympic about this topic may move
on to the last part of this
Games due to cheating
worksheet for further
(Theodosius I) readings on Olympic
Games and the World Wars.

- Theodosius II ordered to
destroy all Greek temples in
426 B.C.

- Baron Pierre de Coubertin

founded the International
Olympic Committee (IOC) in
1890.

- In 1894, the first modern

Olympic Games was held in
Athens.

- Differences between ancient

and modern Olympic Games

- Aims are different. (Ancient

Olympic Games was to honour
God Zeus. Modern Olympic
Games is to promote
international sportsmanship)

- Venue is different. (Ancient

Olympic Games: Olympia.
Modern Olympic Games:
different host cities)
 - Opening ceremony, Torch
Relay, Closing ceremony

10 Consolidation - Find out the differences

mins activity between ancient and modern
Olympic Games.

Group Activity 2: Olympic

Games Puzzle
- Students are divided into a
group of 4.

- Teacher distributes a set of

cards to each group. The cards
consist of description of
ancient or modern Olympic
Games.
- Students take turns to read the
card. Then they find the answer
which matches the questions
shown on the game board.
Then they put the correct
answer cards on the given
questions. After the completion
of the task, the whole group
should put up their hands to
indicate their completion of
work. The fastest group will be
the winner of the game.
Students who obtained all
correct answers would find a
picture of Olympic rings.

Follow-up Task:
- After the activity, teacher asks
students to complete the Exit
Card.
Exit Card (Appendix 6)
Puzzle game for
consolidation through group
work
Teacher collects Exit cards
from students to understand
their learning progress and

Take-home assignment
- Introduce and distribute the
home assignment
(Consolidation exercise).
identify their learning
difficulties to inform
planning of next lesson.
Home assignment/
Extended learning
activities: Worksheet
(Appendix 7)
Home assignment with
extended learning activities
for students who have
interest or who are ready to
explore more on this topic.
(From structured to open)
Students’ work: (Appendix
8)
 Appendix 1
Data collected from Form A

Data collected from Form B

Reading Writing Group(G)/ Interests Visual(V) Critical Collaboration Creativity

level Skills C2(1-3) C3(1-3)
Level Solo Auditory(A) Thinking skills
R(1-3) C1(1-3)
W(1-3) (S) Kinesthetic(K)

R1: 0% W1: 0% G: 67% Reading: V/A: 39% C1-1: 0% C2-1: 0% C3-1: 0%

R2: 50% W2: 56% S: 28% 11% V/A/K: 61% C1-2: 56% C2-2: 29% C3-2: 53%

R3: 50% W3: 44% S&G: 5% Drama: 11% C1-3: 44% C2-3: 71% C3-3: 47%

Public
speaking:

6%

Speaking: 6%

Mathematics
: 11%

Computer:
28%

Others: 27%
Adapted from Carol Ann Tomlinson, Learning and Managing a Differentiated Classroom,
ASCD, 2011. pp.156-157.

Appendix 2

Equalizer: A tool for differentiating process and product

Topic: Olympic Games (S1)

Foundational Transformational

Write a diary about your Write a journal on a day

experience in school you joined the ancient
Sports Day. Olympic Games.

Structured Open

Think of a sports event that Create and describe ONE

ancient Greeks could join, sports event with elements
but not the modern athletes of new and old Olympic
or vice versa. Games.

Concrete Abstract

What types of sports What is the importance of

events did you participate Sports Day to students?
in the School Sports Day?

Adapted from Carol Ann Tomlinson, How to differentiate instruction in mixed-ability

classrooms, Pearson Education, 2005.pp.47.
 Appendix 3

(Pre-assessment Task)
Answer the following questions.

1. Did you participate in any sports events on the School Sports Days?
YES / NO (Circle the answer)

2. What types of sports events did you / your classmates participate in the
School Sports Days? (You may write or draw 3 events as answers.)

3. What did you learn from the Sports Day? How did you feel after
participating in the Sports Days? Were there any special sports event
which impressed you a lot? (e.g. I was impressed by the class relay and
cheering competition.)
__________________________________________________________
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4. We are going to learn ancient and modern Olympic Games. Is there

anything you would like to learn more? (Circle not more than 3 items)
aims/ culture/ opening ceremony/ closing ceremony/ torch relay/
legends of ancient Olympic Games/ sports events/ Athlete/
Others (please specify): _________________
5. The followings are the icons for events in modern Olympic Games shown
in website on Beijing 2008.
Circle the ones which you guess can be found in ancient Olympic Games.
 Appendix 4

Olympic Games

1. There were 150 city-states in Greece. Greece located at southern-east

of Europe. It consisted of peninsula and islands. This made

communication difficult . City-states gradually formed with their own

government system and independent army .

2. Zeus : chief god 3. Hermes: messenger god

4. Apollo : sun god, music god 5. Poseidon: sea god
6. Athena: Goddess of Wisdom 7. Selene: goddess of the moon
8. How to worship ancient Greek gods?

Holding religious ceremonies, building temples.

9. Only males could join ancient Olympic Games. Ancient Greeks believed

human bodies were very beautiful so they were naked in ancient Olympic

Games.

10. 7 types of sports events in ancient Olympic Games

1 Running 5 Throwing spears

2 Long Jump 6 Throwing discus
3 Boxing 7 Chariot racing
4 Wrestling
These 7 types of events were related to war.

11. Ancient Olympic Games: started in 776 B.C.

12. Modern Olympic Games: A.D. 1896 to present

 Historical facts of ancient and modern Olympic Games

13. Suspension of ancient Olympic Games due to cheating (Theodosius

I). Theodosius II ordered to destroy all Greek temples in 426 B.C. (No

more Olympic Games).

14. Baron Pierre de Coubertin founded the International Olympic

Committee (IOC) in 1890.

15. In 1894, the first modern Olympic Games was held in Athens.

Interesting facts about modern Olympic Games

16. By 2016, the Olympic Games will have been hosted by 15 cities in 23

countries.

17. USA has hosted eight Olympic Games (4 Summer Olympic Games

and 4 Winter Olympic Games).

18. Olympic Games have been held in Asia for 3 times.

1964 Tokyo + 2020 Tokyo (2nd time)

1988 Seoul, South Korea

2008 Beijing, China

19. 2016 Games in Rio de Janeiro will be the first Olympics hosted by a

south American country.

20. No Games have been held by African countries.

Further Readings on Olympic Games and the worl d wars

If you are interested in the above topic, please browse the following

websites.
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1916_Summer_Olympics
- http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005680

Appendix 5

Olympic Games
Study the pictures and use your own knowledge, draw an athlete getting a
prize in a modern Olympic Game in the space provided and complete the
following table.

Ancient Olympic Games Modern Olympic Games

A comparison between Ancient Olympic Games and Modern Olympic Games

Ancient Olympic Games Modern Olympic Games
(1) Aims  Honour God Zeus - Promote international
 A religious ceremony friendship and
sportsmanship

(2) How often

Every 4 years Every 4 years

(3) Venue Olympia Different host cities

(4) What do the A crown of olive leaves gold, silver, bronze medals
winners get as
awards?
(5) Who can join Only male Both males and females
the Games?
(6) Should the Yes / No Yes / No
 athletes wear
uniform?
Appendix 6

Olympic Games
(EXIT CARD)

Write down 3 sports events in ancient Olympic Games.

________________________________________________________________

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Write down 2 different host cities which held modern Olympic Games.
________________________________________________________________

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Write down 1 thing that you have learnt and most impressed you in this lesson.

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 Appendix 7

Olympic Games
Home assignment

Answer two questions.

1. Please think of a sports event that

(a) ancient Greeks could join, but not the modern athletes or

(b) modern athletes could join, but not the ancient Greeks

If I were a (boy/girl) (circle the suitable one), I could join ___________________. (name

a sports event)

2. Write a diary about your experience in School Sports Day.

EXTENDED LEARNING ACTIVITIES

Complete one of the following tasks.

(a) Create and describe ONE sports event with elements of modern and ancient

Olympic Games.

_________________________________________________________________

(b) Write a journal on a day you joined the ancient Olympic Games

(Write at least 50 words).

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Appendix 8
Students’ work:

1. Extended learning activities (b)

2. Exit Card

C. Group work: Puzzle game on Olympic Rings