Meeting Standards........................ 2 Every Four Years......................... 3 The 2012 Olympic Games.................. 4 Host Countries........................... 5 Follow the Flags... 6 Map of England.......................... 7 The Royal Family Tree.... 8 A Tree of Your Own... 9 Big Ben Scavenger Hunt.................. 10 A Serious Job........................... 11 The London Mascots..................... 12 The Olympic Flag....................... 13 Carrying the Torch....................... 14 The Olympic Creed.... 15 Olympic Sports Cards.................... 16 Table of Contents Meeting Standards 2 Olympic Sports Code..................... 19 The Olympic Program.................... 20 Use Your Clues.... 21 Olympic Story Starters... 22 Fantastic Gymnastics..................... 23 Riddles for Olympians.................. 24 An A-Maze-ing Race.... 25 What Makes Athletes Go.................. 26 Speed and Safety.... 27 Your Own Pentathlon... 28 Targeting 2012.......................... 29 Olympic Word Problems.................. 30 Turning Words to Gold.... 31 Answer Key............................ 32 Internet Research Sites... 32 The lessons in this book meet the following standards, which are used with permission from McREL (Copyright 2011 McREL. Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, 4601 DTC Boulevard, Suite 500, Denver, CO 80237. Telephone: 303-337-0990. Website: www.mcrel.org/standards benchmarks). To align McREL standards to the Common Core Standards, go to www.mcrel.org/standards benchmarks. Standards and Benchmarks ART Standard 2. (Visual Arts) Knows how to use structures and functions of art GEOGRAPHY Standard 1. Understands the characteristics and uses of maps, globes, and other geographic tools and technologies HEALTH Standard 6. Understands essential concepts about nutrition and diet HISTORY Standard 1. (Historical Understanding) Understands and knows how to analyze chronological relationships and patterns LANGUAGE ARTS Standard 1. Uses the general skills and strategies of the writing process Standard 5. Uses the general skills and strategies of the reading process MATHEMATICS Standard 1. Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process Standard 2. Understands and applies basic and advanced properties of the concepts of numbers Standard 6. Understands and applies basic and advanced concepts of statistics and data analysis
The Royal Family Tree The British Royal Family has been at the center of the British government for thousands of years. The members of the Royal Family are known all over the world. People are happy for them when the family has a joyful event, like a wedding. People are sad for them when there is a death in the family. Right now, Queen Elizabeth II is at the head of the Royal Family. She has been the queen for 60 years. Her father was king before her, and her oldest son is next in line to be king after her. Her oldest son is Charles. A family tree is a type of drawing. It shows all of the members of the family through the years. The branches of the tree go down from grandparents to parents to children. Here is a part of the Royal Family s family tree. This is the part of their family tree that shows who is next in line for the crown. Queen Elizabeth II Married: Duke Philip Charles Married (later divorced): Lady Diana Spencer ss Anne Andrew Edward William Married: Kate Middleton Henry Activity: Use the Royal Family Tree as a guide to create your own family tree. See page 9 for more information. 8
A Tree of Your Own Directions: Create a family tree for your family. Use the Royal Family Tree (page 8) as a model. Add the names of your grandparents, parents, brothers, sisters, or any other family members to your tree. Because every family is different, every tree will look different, too. Ask your family members to help you. Another Idea: Instead of creating a family tree for your family, you could make one for your favorite character from a book, movie, or TV show. Or, you could make one for a favorite person in real life (for example, the president). (grandparents) (grandparents) (parent) (parent) (you or your character) 9
A Serious Job The Queen s Guard is a special group of soldiers. These soldiers are in charge of guarding Buckingham Palace in London. That is where the Queen of England lives. The Queen s Guard have been guarding kings and queens for hundreds of years. The guards wear special uniforms. They look very serious while they do their job. They stand completely still. They have serious looks on their faces. Most guards will never smile while they work! Some people try to do funny things to make the guards smile or laugh. It almost never works! Directions: Imagine you are a soldier on the Queen s Guard. Could you be serious all of the time? Would it be hard to never smile or laugh? What if someone said something funny or made a silly face? Would that make it harder on you to do your job? On the face below, draw yourself making a funny or silly look. Make the face so funny that it would make people smile or laugh even if it was their job not to. 11
The Olympic Flag The Olympic Games are not just about the country that is hosting them. There are many countries from all over the world that play in the Games. In 2012, athletes from about 200 countries will go to London. The Olympic flag represents every one of those countries. How can it do that? The Olympic flag has five rings on it. Each ring is a different color. Each color stands for a different part of the world: F North and South America F Asia F Australia F Europe F Africa The rings are blue, yellow, black, green, and red. Did you know that every flag in the world contains at least one of those colors? Directions: On the flag below, solve the problems. Then use this key to color the rings. Key 0 = black 6 = green 11 = yellow 8 = blue 4 = red 10 2 = 11 11 = 8 4 = 11 0 = 9 3 = 13